by Chris Roberts | Sep 10, 2025 | News
As the U.S. legal cannabis industry enters its second decade, tricky questions are arising that policymakers did not necessarily anticipate when crafting the rules governing the $32 billion market. Among these, prompted by a situation in Illinois involving stores...
by Chris Roberts | Sep 9, 2025 | News
Nebraska’s limited number of commercial medical cannabis cultivators won’t be able to grow more than 1,250 flowering plants. That’s to please Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, who refused to sign off on rules that advocates criticized as already too restrictive without...
by Margaret Jackson | Sep 9, 2025 | News
Marijuana consumption lounges may be coming to Kansas City, Missouri. City officials are currently drafting rules, subject to City Council approval, that would legalize on-site cannabis consumption for the first time in Missouri’s biggest city, according to The...
by Andrew Long | Sep 9, 2025 | News
In most consumer packaged goods industries, brands drive decisions. Shoppers walk into a store looking for Coca-Cola, Nike, or Tide, and if those brands aren’t available, many will leave without buying. Cannabis retail tells a different story. Here, product loyalty...
by Chris Roberts | Sep 8, 2025 | News
New York’s estimated $1.5 billion cannabis market now won’t have seed-to-sale tracking until early 2026, regulators said recently. The latest delay in imposing track-and-trace on what’s projected to be the East Coast’s biggest legal marijuana market follows an abrupt...
by Margaret Jackson | Sep 8, 2025 | News
Massachusetts voters could end the state’s $1.6 billion adult-use marijuana industry now that Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has certified two versions of a 2026 ballot initiative petition. Filed by political consultant Carolina Cunningham, An Act to Restore a...
by Margaret Jackson | Sep 8, 2025 | News
Borrowing from the playbook of industries like airlines and hospitality, an increasing number of cannabis retailers are upping their loyalty program game as a means of engaging customers to keep them returning to their stores. Loyalty programs are no longer just...
by Chris Roberts | Sep 5, 2025 | News
A company fronted by legendary actor Whoopi Goldberg is in court over a stalled bid to launch a cannabis store in a working-class New Jersey city. According to the Courier Post, Goldberg’s WhoopFam company is trading lawsuits with a nonprofit run by Joey Torres, a...
by Margaret Jackson | Sep 5, 2025 | News
More than $7.3 million worth of cannabis was sold in August in Delaware during the state’s first month of recreational sales. Flower was the top-selling product in the state’s 13 stores, accounting for $4.06 million or about 55% of the statewide total, according to...
by Darcel Duncan | Sep 5, 2025 | News
The cannabis industry moves unexpectedly. One month you’re celebrating record sales in California, the next you’re navigating new regulations in Texas or watching M&A activity reshape the competitive landscape. For business leaders trying to stay...
by Margaret Jackson | Sep 4, 2025 | News
THC beverage sales in the U.S. exceeded $1 billion in 2024, and is forecast to expand exponentially. Most brands averaged $2 million in sales, with top brands easily exceeding $10 million, according to a report by Whitney Economics. ADVERTISEMENT “A confluence of...
by Chris Roberts | Sep 4, 2025 | News
A special session of the Texas state Legislature ended on Wednesday night without lawmakers passing a blanket ban on hemp-derived THC products. The failure of Senate Bill 6, which would have outlawed all hemp products with any “detectable amount of any cannabinoid,”...