Georgia under pressure to expand low-THC medical cannabis in 2026
Back in session as of earlier this week, Georgia lawmakers are set to reconsider a major expansion of the state’s limited, low-THC medical cannabis program. That would be good news for medical marijuana operators in the state, where patient growth remains stagnant...
Montana adult-use cannabis sales hit record $327 million
Montana cannabis retailers reported a record $327 million in sales in 2025, marking another year of steady growth since adult-use sales launched on Jan. 1, 2022, according to state Department of Revenue data. Over the past four years, Montana has recorded more than $1...
Flurry of cannabis M&A that followed Trump marijuana rescheduling a sign of things to come
A flurry of acquisitions, mergers and other cannabis sector deals followed President Donald Trump’s Dec. 18 executive order instructing marijuana’s status under federal law to be downgraded. But while some observers agree that this historic step – and with it, the...
Connecticut cannabis retailers sell record number of items amid price drop
Connecticut cannabis sales dipped slightly in 2025, to $290 million from $293 million in 2024, according to state data. That’s despite retailers selling a 8.6 million distinct items – a record haul and nearly 1 million more items than in 2024, as per the...
Despite fraud allegations, campaign to end $1.6 billion Massachusetts marijuana industry likely to proceed
Elections fraud allegations lodged against the campaign to end Massachusetts’ $1.65 billion adult-use cannabis market may be difficult to prove. Even if the claims that signature-gatherers for a Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts deliberately misled voters are...
Proposed Texas hemp THC regulations threaten $5.5 billion market
Smokable “hemp flower” and other popular hemp THC products could soon disappear from Texas store shelves under new regulations proposed for the state’s estimated $5 billion sector. The Texas Department of State Health Services wants to account for...
Texas medical cannabis finally poised to boom, but one major obstacle remains
For years stifled by law, Texas’ modest medical cannabis industry is poised to boom in 2026 thanks to expanded patient eligibility and product access. But as major marijuana multistate operators move to enter the Lone Star State for the first time, Texas’ estimated $5...
Ohio cannabis sales top $1 billion in first full year of adult-use
Ohio cannabis retailers recorded more than $836 million in nonmedical sales in 2025, the state’s first full year of legal adult-use marijuana. With medical cannabis dispensaries reporting $233 million in sales, total Ohio marijuana sales in 2025 surpassed $1.06...
The HR compliance checklist every cannabis business needs in 2026
(This is a contributed guest column. To be considered as an MJBizDaily guest columnist, please submit your request here.) As 2026 begins, one thing is painfully clear across the cannabis industry: operators can no longer afford reactive HR and compliance strategies....
Big banks still refusing cannabis despite Trump marijuana rescheduling
President Donald Trump’s Dec. 18 order to reclassify cannabis under federal law won’t solve the marijuana industry’s longstanding banking problems anytime soon. Without formal reclassification as a Schedule 3 drug, “it’s still too early to reconsider our position, and...
Massachusetts cannabis sales hit record $1.65 billion despite falling prices
Cannabis sales in Massachusetts reached a record $1.65 billion in 2025, according to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC). And that milestone comes despite a significant decline in prices – meaning consumers are buying significantly more product...Featured
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