CDTFA Cannabis Creditor: Myths and Truths March 28, 2024 Hilary Bricken California, News & Insights 0 Comments By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell Dealing with creditors is never a fun experience. However, some creditors are more severe than others, especially in the cannabis industry. One of those is the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration… Read More→
If FL Supreme Court approves cannabis ballot language, will voters go for recreational weed or not? March 28, 2024 AggregatedNews Florida, News & Insights 0 Comments The long wait on whether Floridians will get a chance to vote to legalize recreational cannabis for adults 21 and older is almost over, as the Florida Supreme Court is on a hard deadline to rule on the proposed constitutional… Read More→
Dug In: Big Island Grown’s Deep Cannabis Roots March 27, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Hawaii, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Big Island Grown (BIG) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose reach now extends to several islands in the archipelago, with plans to develop more wholesale trade as the… Read More→
Unlock the Secrets of Social Media for Cannabis Brands March 27, 2024 Susan Gunelius Marketing 0 Comments There are three primary ways that brands can use social media platforms for marketing: organic posts, shared posts, and paid posts. With paid posts still off limits to most businesses operating in and with the cannabis industry, cannabis brands can… Read More→
California’s Cannabis Industry Conundrum and the Road Ahead March 27, 2024 AggregatedNews California, News & Insights 0 Comments By Aaron Pelley, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski Despite continuously surpassing every other state with recreational cannabis in terms of total retail sales, California’s cannabis industry has faced continuous and far-reaching issues on multiple levels that have only spread even further.… Read More→
The High Rate of Dependence Among Medical Cannabis Users March 27, 2024 AggregatedNews Medical Marijuana 0 Comments The difference between medicinal and recreational marijuana has always been arbitrary. For example, after legalizing recreational cannabis, California initially required each cultivated seedling to be designated by growers as either a recreational or medicinal cannabis plant. From that point onward,… Read More→
A Legal Pot Pioneer Was Busted in Idaho With 56 Pounds. He Has a Plan. March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews Industry People 0 Comments In retrospect, the Idaho shortcut might have been a bad idea. The mission had already begun to go sideways when Dana Beal — a pioneer of New York’s marijuana legalization movement but someone who has never obtained a driver’s license… Read More→
Adult-Use Bill Barely Passes Divided Hawaiian House March 26, 2024 Tom Hymes Hawaii, News & Insights 0 Comments SB3335, a bill that would make Hawaii the last Democrat-controlled state to legalize adult-use cannabis, passed the full House on Friday by the slimmest of margins: 25-23. The legislation, which includes amendments from the Senate version, heads to the Finance… Read More→
MedMen’s fall shows the difficulties of the legal weed business March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews Retail 0 Comments In the summer of 2018, MedMen opened a boutique cannabis dispensary on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice — “the coolest block in America,” as the company hyped in a press release at the time. With natural light pouring through floor-to-ceiling windows… Read More→
Cannabis Ventures, Startup Best Practices, and Ways to Compete March 25, 2024 Dave McManus Accounting, Best Practices, News & Insights 0 Comments By Dave McManus Once relatively easy to break into, the cannabis industry now demands a leaner and more conservative approach to financial management along with precise forecasting and a great deal of patience. There are inherent risks, regulatory uncertainties, and… Read More→
New York’s Marijuana Scorecard: 85 Legal Shops, 2,000 Illegal Ones March 24, 2024 AggregatedNews Black Market, New York, Retail 0 Comments The lack of legal dispensaries and the overwhelming proliferation of illegal ones are the biggest concerns of the rollout three years after legalization. After three years of fits and starts, the rollout of New York’s recreational cannabis market gained speed… Read More→
They Signed Up to Grow Weed. Then New York State Pushed Them Into the Black Market March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews Cultivation, New York 0 Comments Weed legalization was supposed to prioritize mom-and-pop businesses — but for some upstate farmers, things didn't go as planned Just a few months before this, the deal would have seemed impossible: New York’s longtime underground growers, excluded from receiving the… Read More→
Yellen would welcome US legislation to aid cannabis banking access March 21, 2024 AggregatedNews Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Federal 0 Comments U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday she would welcome legislation that would rectify the conflict between federal and state laws on the sale and use of marijuana that is preventing cannabis firms from accessing the banking system. Asked… Read More→
Hawaii House Advances Bill That Regulates ‘Entire’ Cannabis Plant March 21, 2024 Tom Hymes Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, News & Insights 0 Comments Legalized adult use in Hawaii took another step forward Tuesday when a key House committee advanced SB3335, a bill that aims to kill two cannabis birds with one stoner piece of legislation. Following a public hearing that lasted well over… Read More→
Cannabis potency is falling in California March 19, 2024 AggregatedNews Lab Testing 0 Comments California’s cannabis has long been known for being notoriously strong, but test results from the state’s legal stores show that weed in the Golden State is getting weaker. Experts say there’s more to the story. Cannabis potency is usually measured by… Read More→