Tucked into the forests of Mendocino County, accessible by a two-lane road that winds through hills of golden grass abundant with rattlesnakes is the small town of Covelo, where hundreds of seasonal workers converge every year, eager to help harvest the region’s most lucrative cash crop — marijuana. These workers, known as “trimmigrants,” patiently cut […]
Cultivators
Considerations when Planning a New Greenhouse Facility for Cannabis Cultivation
By Paul Golden Most aspiring greenhouse cannabis producers focus their attention, when building their business plan, by first estimating profits. They assume the price of their products, flower and/or extracts, on the wholesale market. In most cases it’s easy to get a spot index price for wholesale products. Profitability of your Production Methods Both Canada and […]
Agricultural Hemp vs. Marijuana: Cultivation Techniques
When it comes to cannabis, there is a lot of information and misinformation circling the internet. With growing support for marijuana legalization (61% in 2018 vs. 57% in 2017), America is running into the desperate need for readily available information on the plant responsible for so much controversy. One of the biggest misconceptions is that all cannabis […]
Canadian Medical Cannabis Producer Expands Business To Italy
An Alberta medical marijuana company is blazing the trail on the international market, expanding its sales to a second European country. Aurora Cannabis Enterprises Inc., a medical cannabis producer with an 800,000-square-foot production facility near the Edmonton International Airport, has struck a deal to be the first and only private international pot manufacturer to sell […]
Blue Dream vs. Gorilla Glue #4? Not in Oregon
The fight for the king-of-the-strains crown in most states is fairly stable. Blue Dream usually wins. Gorilla Glue #4 is on the rise. Other biggies, like Sour Diesel, bounce around in the top 10. But not in Oregon. Beaver State consumers often place the crown on the brow of Blue Dream, but its place at […]
A Behind the Scenes Look at a Cannabis Business Startup – Genetics
(Ed. note – The following article is the second installment of a first-hand account of the progress of the development of Garden First, a cannabis startup beginning their operations with a 6,000 square foot indoor production facility in central Oregon. Every quarter an article will be published focusing on a specific topic, ranging from banking […]
In from the Shadows: Advantages of Transitioning to a Regulated Cannabis Market
As an up-and-coming cannabis entrepreneur, I often wonder: Will the local government support me until cannabis is rescheduled at the federal level? How much money will I actually make? Is this the right industry to get involved with? Questions like these are commonly discussed among my fellow cannabis entrepreneurs who are people just like me, […]
With Legal Cannabis on Its Way, California Growers Continue to Operate in the Dark
LAYTONVILLE, Calif. — From the sky they look like citrus groves, neat rows of lush emerald-colored plants set amid the hills of Northern California. But as a police reconnaissance helicopter banked for a closer look on a recent afternoon, the pungent smell of marijuana plants filled the cabin, wafting up from 800 feet below. “That’s […]
With Expansion, Top Cannabis Producer in Canada Expects to Double Production
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s biggest licensed producer of medical marijuana has bought land next to its greenhouse production site that will allow it to more than double the total volume of cannabis it can grow, its chief executive said on Thursday. Canopy Growth Corp’s (WEED.TO) Tweed Farms Inc subsidiary expects to spend at least C$25 […]
Oregon Officials Set New Grow Limit on Medical Marijuana
Oregon public health officials this week drafted new rules for how many plants medical marijuana cardholders may grow at home or at a grow site registered with the state. The regulations are the result of legislation passed this year to tackle the flow of medical marijuana into the black market. The bottom line for medical marijuana […]
A Behind the Scenes Look at a Startup Cannabis Business Development – Values and Goals
(Ed. note – The following article is a first-hand account of the progress of the development of Garden First, a cannabis startup beginning their operations with a 6,000 square foot indoor production facility in central Oregon. Every quarter an article will be published focusing on a specific topic, ranging from banking issues to cultivation tips […]
Tilray Announces Second Facility To Meet The Rapidly Growing Global Demand For High-Quality Cannabis Products
NANAIMO, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tilray Canada Ltd., a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-certified global leader in medical cannabis research and production, announced today that it will invest, through an affiliated entity, up to $30 million in a second cultivation and processing facility located in Enniskillen, Ontario. The two facilities will generate a combined production capacity of up […]
Cannabis Could Be the Answer in Coal Country
Johnsie Gooslin spent Jan. 16, 2015, tending his babies — that’s what he called his marijuana plants. More than 70 of them were growing in a hydroponic system of his own design. Sometimes, he’d stay in his barn for 16 hours straight, perfecting his technique. That night, he left around 8 o’clock to head home. […]
U.S. Cannabusinesses Watch And Wait While Canada’s Country-Wide Adult-Use Structure Gets Tweaked
In mid-April, Canadian lawmakers put forth cannabis legislation that would legalize adult use of cannabis on July 1, 2018, one of the campaign pledges of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015, which will make Canada just the second country that would legalize adult-use marijuana across the entire country (Uruguay did it in 2014). The country […]
How to Manage Cannabis Business Leadership In An Increasingly Brighter Spotlight
A critical element of successful leadership is appreciating the spotlight. Leaders are in the spotlight. People are watching them. Closely. Assiduously. They’re the subject of the floodlights’ glare. The aperture is set for widest exposure where all images are captured with precise focus. As such, leaders’ actions are magnified and the shadows behind looms large, […]
California Is Growing Far More Marijuana Than It Smokes
People who closely follow the the cannabis industry have had a good laugh lately at headlines like “Marijuana Shortage Prompts Emergency In Nevada.” But you’ll be none too surprised to hear that California finds itself having exactly the opposite problem. California is growing far more marijuana than it actually consumes, the head of the California Growers […]
Flower’s Dominance Fluctuates
Sales of flower — everything from grams of Blue Dream to ounces of generic hybrid blends — dominate in all states with legal recreational marijuana, compared to other categories like concentrates, edibles and topicals. During the first quarter of 2017 in all channels between Colorado, Washington and Oregon, flower captured 52 percent of the broader […]
Cannabis Shortages: Just the Norm?
With Nevada recently launching their highly anticipated recreational cannabis market in July, states are watching very closely at what they can learn from their neighbors and how to avoid key obstacles they’ve seen in getting these highly complex programs up and running. One of the big issues we’ve observed is the nationally covered “cannabis shortage” […]
