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A Research-Driven Inquiry Into ‘Endotoxin On Cannabis’

July 26, 2024
Tom Hymes
Cannabis & Hemp Research, News & Insights
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About a month ago, Kevin McKernan, the founder and CSO of Massachusetts-based Medicinal Genomics, which also produces the CannMed conferences, posted online a rerecording of the Endotoxin on Cannabis presentation he gave at the CannMed Innovation & Investment Summit held…

In Pursuit of a Bettering Edible Experience

July 23, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Edibles & Infused Processors, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The Bettering Company is a Chicago, Illinois-based manufacturer of high-quality, hand-crafted, vegan, and gluten-free edibles that recently expanded operations into New York, with more states on the way. Currently available in about ten stores in the Empire State, Bettering gummies…

A Peek Inside the Usage Habits of Drinkers and Tokers

As much as some people like to wax ecstatic about the similarities between alcohol and cannabis from both a consumption and marketing perspective, research and surveys looking at the usage habits of consumers of both clearly indicates marked differences between…

MariMed Adds New Post-Guidance Growth

July 16, 2024
Tom Hymes
Multiple State Operators, News & Insights
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While the dog days of summer are certainly upon us, and the fate of the cannabis industry remains shrouded in political and legal uncertainty, deals are still being made, state regulators are doing their work, and new growth opportunities are…

NY Cannabis Control Board Approves 100+ Licenses at Contentious Meeting

July 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, New York, News & Insights
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A somewhat stressed out but productive New York Cannabis Control Board held a monthly public meeting on Tuesday, July 10 – aka 7/10, a cannabis concentrates holiday – to address a full agenda of items that included over 100 applications…

Ethos Cannabis CEO Gibran Washington on Growth and Profitability

July 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Pennsylvania, Spotlight
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Based out of Philadelphia, Ethos Cannabis is one of those rare beasts in the cannabis realm, a profitable multistate operator whose growth trajectory is up and under control, and whose ambitions, borne of discipline and focus, are seen by its…

SCOTUS Scuttles Chevron

This January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that challenged the deference given federal agencies by federal courts to interpret vaguely written laws. It was called the Chevron deference. It no longer exists. It took about…

Curaleaf’s ‘The Hemp Company’ Delivers with DoorDash (UPDATED)

June 24, 2024
Tom Hymes
Delivery Service, Hemp Industry News, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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Curaleaf announced several launches on Monday, all of them related to hemp-derived THC products that are ostensibly compliant with the 2018 Farm Bill. First, Curaleaf announced the launch of an “all-new line of hemp derived THC products under its Select…

Is Maryland Governor Wes Moore Blowing Smoke or Fire?

While the cannabis and hemp industries have been mostly (and rightly) fixated with goings-on at the federal level, the states are where cannabis policy is enacted and where the regulatory impact of cannabis policies is truly felt, for better and…

In Hawaii, Hope Springs Eternal Following Adult-Use Defeat

June 18, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, Spotlight
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As the dust settles following the recent failure of Hawaiian state legislators to pass legislation regulating the sale of adult-use cannabis, licensed operators are once again left wondering what the future holds not just for the so-called recreational use of…

The Expanding Tao of Shangri-La

June 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The fictional Shangri-La was a hidden valley tucked into the western end of Tibet’s Kunlun Mountains; a mystical paradise isolated from the world. For brothers Nevil and Kepal Patel, however, Shangri-La means the opposite of isolation. Instead, they are in…

Cannabis Regulators and Stakeholders Meet Again

June 10, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hemp Industry News, Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Last week, the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA) held an external stakeholders meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota that brought the nation’s cannabis dealers (i.e. the regulators) together to commiserate with 175 "attending organizations" that represent the interests of constituencies within the cannabis…

Bayou City Hemp Co. is Situated for a Fabulous Future

As we enter what could be a protracted period of hostility between the “marijuana” and hemp blocs of the cannabis industry, with federal and state governments offering a witches brew of solutions to fix or close loopholes created by the…

Watch the Skies! Nova is Coming!

May 28, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Massachusetts-based Nova Farms is a very unique, if recognizable, breed of cannabis company, a throwback from the future, if you will, legacy at heart, sustainable by choice, modern in its thinking, wholesale but also retail, rooted to the soil but…

I Bought Some Great Legal Weed – Finally!

After two years of settling for mostly mediocre weed, plus a few occasions where mediocre was elevated to good, I finally bought what I consider to be truly excellent cannabis flower at a legal dispensary in the Northeast. I had…

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