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How to compete with the illicit marijuana market

The illicit marijuana market is among the biggest and most complex challenges facing legal cannabis businesses—one that takes revenue from licensed companies and hampers the growth of state-legal MJ programs…

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Alternative enforcement measures

While other industries with illicit-market issues can call on law enforcement to punish perpetrators by closing them down, fining them and even jailing them, that doesn’t work quite so well…

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Will federal legalization smoke out the illicit market?

As long as some states prohibit cannabis, there will always be an illicit market for marijuana.

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Illicit operators continue to undermine legal marijuana businesses, but licensed companies have tools to compete

Legal marijuana businesses can beat illict operators with better customer service, safety, product mix and quality.

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Using Packaging to Stop Fakes

Chinese manufacturers have been knocking off high-end products for years—think Louis Vuitton bags, Air Jordan sneakers and Rolex watches. Now, they’ve gone one step further: making counterfeit cannabis packaging that’s…

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Stumbling Blocks from Illicit to Legit

Debby Goldsberry, the CEO of Magnolia Wellness in Oakland, California, and a longtime champion of cannabis and social equity, had a realization while viewing videotape of looters robbing her store…

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Flouting the Law

Marijuana growers have prospered in California for decades—and, more often than not, they did so outside the law. Two illicit cultivators agreed to speak anonymously with Marijuana Business Magazine about…

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Products to One-Up the Illicit Market

The illicit market takes a large chunk of sales away from licensed cannabis businesses, but products that are difficult to replicate or require expensive equipment to manufacture generally are found…

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Reviving Black-Owned Farms

Systemic racism in the United States has long held back entrepreneurs from socially disadvantaged groups. And for farmers of color, prospects in the agriculture sector got worse—not better—through the 20th…

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