by Chris Roberts | Dec 4, 2025 | News
As an attorney, Riana Durrett could never ask a cannabis operator to break the law. But there isn’t a better way to test the reading of the U.S. constitution that Durrett, the director of the University Nevada Las Vegas Cannabis Policy Institute, and other legal...
by Chris Roberts | Dec 3, 2025 | News
Marijuana multistate operator Curaleaf Holdings will enter the Virginia market with the purchase of competitor The Cannabist Company Holdings’ assets in the state, the companies announced Tuesday. For $110 million, Curaleaf will acquire a vertically integrated medical...
by Chris Roberts | Dec 3, 2025 | News
George Archos’ Christmas list this year is the same it was the year before, and the year before that. All the CEO of marijuana multistate operator Verano Holdings wants is for his company to be treated like a normal business, by Meta and by the Internal Revenue...
by Chris Roberts | Dec 2, 2025 | News
Virginia adult-use cannabis sales could begin Nov. 1, 2026 – and small businesses might get first crack ahead of big marijuana multistate operators. That’s under a proposed regulatory framework state lawmakers plan to present to Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger,...
by Margaret Jackson | Dec 2, 2025 | News
Major marijuana multistate operators are among the nine companies poised to enter Texas’ rapidly expanding medical cannabis market. The Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday gave preliminary approval to subsidiaries of Trulieve Cannabis Corp. and Verano...
by Margaret Jackson | Dec 2, 2025 | News
Brands that want to connect authentically with diverse audiences must learn to “read the room.” That’s some of the advice Maverick Public Relations founder and CEO Shawna Seldon McGregor has to share at MJBizCon with cannabis brands seeking to authentically connect...
by Chris Roberts | Dec 1, 2025 | News
Health insurance coverage for medical cannabis, a potential game changer for medical marijuana operators and the cannabis industry at large, remains a distant dream as long as federal prohibition continues. That’s unlikely to change if a tweak to Medicare...
by Margaret Jackson | Dec 1, 2025 | News
It’s been a few months since President Donald Trump promised he’d be “looking at” downgrading marijuana’s status under federal law – and would do so in a few weeks. But according to a top House Republican lawmaker who spoke at a...
by Chris Roberts | Dec 1, 2025 | News
With hundreds of sessions that overlap and with limited time, MJBizCon 2025 offers more valuable marijuana industry programming than any one attendee can handle. Whether you’re walking the show floor in Las Vegas for the first time or returning for your tenth year,...
by Margaret Jackson | Nov 26, 2025 | News
The Michigan Court of Claims heard arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of a new 24% wholesale tax on cannabis products, a measure that has sparked significant backlash from the state’s legal marijuana industry. The tax, set to take effect on Jan. 1, was...
by Chris Roberts | Nov 26, 2025 | News
Will the U.S. Supreme Court do what Congress and the White House have not and deliver the $32 billion U.S. cannabis industry from outdated federal marijuana laws? An answer is inching closer after the highest court on Monday scheduled a meeting for next month to...
by Margaret Jackson | Nov 25, 2025 | News
The marijuana multistate operator-funded effort to legalize adult-use cannabis in Florida suffered a major blow on Friday when a state judge ruled more than 200,000 signatures invalid. The decision jeopardizes Smart & Safe Florida’s effort to put...