What MJBizCon 2025 sessions should you attend?
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,...
Michigan cannabis industry fights massive tax hike in court
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...
As marijuana rescheduling stalls, industry turns to Supreme Court
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Supreme Court do what Congress and the White House have not and deliver the $32 billion U.S. cannabis industry from outdated federal marijuana laws?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...
Florida adult-use marijuana legalization campaign suffers major setback
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...
Mass. voters tricked by campaign to end legal cannabis sales urged to act
Massachusetts voters fooled into supporting a controversial ballot initiative that would end the state’s $1.6 billion legal cannabis industry have options. Anyone lured to sign “An Act To Restore Sensible Cannabis Policy” through allegedly fraudulent means can contact...
How cannabis businesses can go digital while thwarting hackers
Along with new efficiencies and growth opportunities, the cannabis industry’s digital transformation is creating a new challenge for operators: cybersecurity. For instance, retailers’ increasing reliance on integrated digital platforms for key functions like...
What’s killing cannabis workers?
A Missouri cannabis company must pay out $3 million to a former consultant who claims a severe asthmatic reaction to finely ground marijuana particles led to a debilitating heart attack. The penalty assessed against St. Louis-based Blue Arrow for contributing to Mark...
Meet the finalists for the 2025 MJBowl cannabis competition
MJBowl, the new bi-coastal cannabis competition from MJBizCon and social review platform Budist, is ready to introduce this year’s top contenders. Designed to spotlight the Most Valuable Products across five major categories, the competition brings together licensed...
Government-run cannabis stores moving ahead in Minnesota
This article has been updated. A government-run cannabis store in Osseo, Minnesota is expected to open in mid-2026. It could be the second municipally owned dispensary in the state. Ground broke in May on another city-owned store in Anoka earlier this year....
How Gen Z’s buying habits are reshaping legal cannabis retail
Cannabis operators are watching an unexpected consumer shift transform retail. Gen Z, the industry’s youngest legal consumers, are coming in to buy. They’re just navigating cannabis with more intention and selectivity than other buyers. ADVERTISEMENT “Very...
Amid fraud claims, campaign to end Mass. adult-use cannabis claims win
The controversial bid to end Massachusetts’ $1.6 billion annual adult-use marijuana industry claimed yet another significant early victory. Amid widening accusations of voter fraud, the Coalition for a Healthy Massachusetts “is confident it has submitted enough...Featured
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