How ‘essential’ transformed the US cannabis industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic
During the tumultuous weeks and months of the past year, a nine-letter word emerged as a game changer for the nation’s legal marijuana industry: “essential.”
Iowa awards two additional medical cannabis dispensary licenses
Iowa regulators awarded medical marijuana dispensary licenses to operators in Iowa City and Council Bluffs to replace two outlets that closed in March.
Iowa medical cannabis businesses face profit woes amid heavy restrictions
Iowa’s 2-year-old medical marijuana program is struggling to become financially viable, constrained by low THC levels, high prices, minimal physician participation – and more.
Acreage pulls out of Iowa medical marijuana market
Marijuana multistate operator Acreage Holdings relinquished its medical cannabis manufacturing license in Iowa, two months after halting operations at the facility.
