Instagram Is the New Neighborhood Pot Dealer

November 28, 2022
AggregatedNews
Marketing
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Weed sellers find target audience on social media Social media sites like Instagram are popular platforms for advertisers looking to target a massive user base of young people. One unintended consequence for app owner Meta Platforms Inc., though, is that’s…

Four Chinese nationals ‘executed’ at pot farm in Oklahoma, authorities say

Oklahoma authorities are searching for a man they say killed four Chinese nationals and injured another in a shooting at a marijuana farm in Kingfisher County, northwest of Oklahoma City. The man entered a building at the farm just after…

Year-end planning: focus on budgets and tax for cannabis operators

November 22, 2022
Dave McManus
Accounting
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By Dave McManus As we approach the close of a turbulent year, cannabis operators have an opportunity to establish a strong finance and tax strategy heading into 2023. You can enter the year from a position of strength by focusing…

POSaBIT: From Bitcoin Payments to Cannabis Financial Institution

Ryan Hamlin’s cannabis origin story is not an uncommon one. The founder and CEO of cannabis debit payment and point-of-sale (POS) platform POSaBIT (pronounced PAUSE-ah-bit) found himself at a barbecue in Washington state in late 2014, chatting with a friend…

Viridian Capital Chart Highlights “Fragmented” National Cannabis Industry

A just-released chart entitled “The Fragmented Cannabis Industry” by Viridian Capital Advisors presents a cannabis industry in which six of the largest multistate operators (MSOs) accounted for 20 percent of revenue for 2021. A far greater percentage of revenue –…

New Weed Bill Aims to Speed Research as DC Lobbying Grows

The first bipartisan marijuana bill to pass Congress went ahead with unanimous consent last week. But it wasn’t the legislation that the cannabis industry has been hoping for. The Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, passed on Nov. 16 by…

New York Cannabis Farms Have $750 Million of Weed — and Nowhere to Sell It

Growers in upstate New York are figuring out how to keep a glut of weed fresh as the state stalls on retail licenses. By almost all metrics, New York’s cannabis market rollout should be in the final innings. The state began…

Beyond Convenience, What’s The Future For Cannabis Delivery?

Delivering cannabis isn’t a new concept. Depending on where you live, having cannabis dropped off to you in person has been available for some time. However, everything “direct to consumer” (D2C) in cannabis is now in flux. What’s happening today…

The Flower Shop Looks Beyond Arizona and Utah

November 17, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Arizona-based TFS Brands, aka The Flower Shop, began life as SKY Dispensaries in 2017 only to rebrand to its current name in 2019 following the promotion of Greta Brandt from General Counsel to her current role as President of the…

Treez: Laying the Groundwork for the Future of Retail Cannabis FINtech

Ahead of this week’s Marijuana Business Conference in Las Vegas, cannabis POS software company Treez is getting ready to bring its version of the future of retail cannabis FINtech to market with a series of product innovations. John Yang, Treez’s…

Taking a Holistic Approach to Your Cultivation Business Can Improve Your Bottom Line

November 16, 2022
Ryan Douglas
Cultivation
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Cultivation businesses that don’t take a holistic view of their operation are destined to fail. It isn’t one piece of equipment, a specific growing technique, or a single process that defines the success of the organization. Instead, it’s the sum…

Lifting Edibles Brands, and the Edibles Industry

How Cannabis Edibles Brands Can Burnish Reputations and Drive Sales Through Audits, Radical Transparency and More By Tyler Williams, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, CSQ Certification The cannabis edibles market continues to boom, as consumers increasingly embrace everything from gummies to…

As recreational marijuana prices plummet in Massachusetts, medical sales slump

Consumers rejoice, but data suggest state’s cannabis sector is stumbling amid increasing competition Six years after Massachusetts voters legalized marijuana, the state’s cannabis industry is bigger than ever, with cumulative recreational sales soaring toward $4 billion and more than 225…

Jane Technologies: Digitizing the Cannabis Retail Experience

November 11, 2022
Brian MacIver
E-commerce, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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One of the books that most influenced Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO of cannabis e-commerce platform Jane Technologies, is “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek. In the book, Sinek splits the different games that humans play into two categories: finite, and infinite.…

Four Chinese nationals ‘executed’ at pot farm in Oklahoma, authorities say

Year-end planning: focus on budgets and tax for cannabis operators

POSaBIT: From Bitcoin Payments to Cannabis Financial Institution

Viridian Capital Chart Highlights “Fragmented” National Cannabis Industry

New Weed Bill Aims to Speed Research as DC Lobbying Grows

New York Cannabis Farms Have $750 Million of Weed — and Nowhere to Sell It

Beyond Convenience, What’s The Future For Cannabis Delivery?

The Flower Shop Looks Beyond Arizona and Utah

Treez: Laying the Groundwork for the Future of Retail Cannabis FINtech

Taking a Holistic Approach to Your Cultivation Business Can Improve Your Bottom Line

Lifting Edibles Brands, and the Edibles Industry

Top 5 Questions For Public Relations Experts High On Cannabis

As recreational marijuana prices plummet in Massachusetts, medical sales slump

Jane Technologies: Digitizing the Cannabis Retail Experience

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