It’s never too early to start banking marijuana-related businesses
This year four states legalized adult-use (aka “recreational”) marijuana (New York, Virginia, New Mexico, Connecticut) and one legalized medical marijuana (Alabama), but passing a law is just the first step in a long process before customers and patients can buy...
Benzinga Cannabis Alliance: A Hub To Make Business Easier By Connecting Cannabis Companies and Industry-Leading Service Providers
Patrick Lane, SVP of Corporate Partnerships at Benzinga joined Ian Burnstein and Jessica Johnson at last week’s Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in New York to present the Benzinga Cannabis Alliance (BCA). The BCA is the leading...
Rantoul considering adult-use cannabis craft grower business
RANTOUL, Ill. (WAND) – Rantoul leaders are giving thought to a potential start-up adult-use cannabis craft grower business in the village. The News-Gazette reports Rantoul natives Dane Ehler, operator of Heartland Hemp Co., and Blake Schilb, shared a...
Residents, cannabis operators go head to head regarding business licenses in Santa Cruz County
© Provided by Santa Cruz Sentinel Greenhouses sit at the site of 110 Crest Drive in La Selva Beach. Nearby residents said the application under consideration from Merced Investment Company, LLC plans to grow non-retail commercial cannabis with the existing...
Washington, D.C. May See Recreational Marijuana Sales Under New Budget Bill
Legislation that has blocked adult-use cannabis sales in Washington, D.C. for seven years has been omitted from this year’s Senate appropriations bill in a move by lawmakers that could clear the way for sales of recreational marijuana in the nation’s capital. Ever...
CBD Stocks Creating Opportunities – Established (BCCI), (STG), (WEED), (ACRGF), (RLTR), (CBMJ), and Newcomer (VAPR) Lead the Charge
You would have to be living in isolation to have not picked up on the hottest marijuana derivative consumable and therapeutic center isolate CBD. CBD “Cannabidiol” is the non-psychoactive full spectrum derivative of the hemp and marijuana plant largely credited for the majority of the medical beneficial attributes associated with marijuana.
Former Colorado Governor, First In Nation To Legalize Marijuana, Introduces Federal Legalization Bill
Colorado’s governor when the state became the first in the country to legalize recreational cannabis in 2012 reintroduced a bill calling for federal marijuana legalization last week, reported Marijuana Moment. Titled the Preparing Regulators Effectively for a...
7 unlicensed cannabis dispensaries shut down by NY officials, owner allegedly held ‘pot Easter egg hunts’
David Tully, the owner of multiple “I’m Stuck” cannabis dispensaries in New York, had seven of his shops shut down by police on July 31, 2023. New York officials claim Tully repeatedly ignored notices to stop operating without a license, and...
Cannabis industry scales back its lobbying in Washington
WASHINGTON – The cannabis industry is dramatically scaling back its presence in Washington. Curaleaf, one the largest cannabis companies in the world, spent nearly 40% less on lobbying in the first half of 2023 than it did at its peak in 2019. Others like Columbia...
Red Lake Nation prepares to open state’s first recreational marijuana dispensary
Red Lake Nation prepares to open state’s first recreational marijuana dispensary The Red Lake Nation made its final preparations Monday to begin selling recreational marijuana on Tuesday. When Minnesota’s new law takes effect Tuesday, the tribal nation’s NativeCare...
Marijuana businesses and NY labor unions: Cannabis Insider Q&A
As New Yorkers eagerly await regulations for the state’s adult-use cannabis market, one thing is already certain: Applicants for a marijuana license will need to make peace with organized labor ahead of time. A clause within the state’s Marijuana Regulation and...
One of NYC’s first cannabis ‘clubs’ is already open for business, even though the state says selling weed is still illegal. Here’s what it’s like inside.
© Ben Gilbert/Insider The first recreational use cannabis dispensary in New York City, Empire Cannabis Clubs. Ben Gilbert/Insider In September, a recreational cannabis “club” quietly opened in Manhattan. The store appears to be operating in a legal gray...
MediPharm Labs Completes a New Cannabis Oil Delivery to German Partner Vayamed
New strategic partnership through the delivery of GMP extract to Germany for Vayamed, the medical cannabis business unit of Sanity Group Vayamed is a well-established operating medical cannabis company in Germany, where the medical cannabis market is expected to be...
Cannabis Execs Talk ‘Silly’ Canadian Regulations, US, Expansion, The Value Of Good Partners
At the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference Friday, Trent MacDonald, CFO of Hexo Corp (NASDAQ:HEXO), Niel Marotta, co-founder and CEO of Indiva Ltd (OTC:NDVAF) and Kevin McLaughlin, director at Centri Business Consulting, participated in a panel discussion of the ways...
Leaf Brief: The Business of Cannabis
Greetings from the chill of Croptober. We hear it’s been a great growing season for some of you, and we’ve got lots of news to share. Last week, SFR talked with a few cannabis businesses about how they’re adjusting to legalization. Because the medical program and...
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