Current Benefits of Banking Legal Cannabis Businesses
While historically viewed as “strange bedfellows,” more financial institutions are offering services to cannabis businesses across the country. Though their worlds may seemingly look quite different, both are highly regulated, cash-intensive industries that can solve...
State’s medical marijuana firms report significant losses in 2022
Top medical marijuana companies across the country, including a handful of companies based in New York, reported significant losses last year, according to an analysis of filings by Green Market Report. Two dozen of the top plant-touching publicly traded marijuana...
Rochester’s legal cannabis industry can finally move forward thanks to settlement
Last week marked a potential watershed moment for the legal cannabis industry in Rochester as a lawsuit preventing cannabis dispensary licenses from being issued in the Finger Lakes was settled (pending judicial approval) between the state of New York and...
Maryland Opens Applications For Marijuana Business Grants As Regulators Issue New Industry Guidance
Maryland officials are now accepting applications for grants to help existing medical marijuana businesses convert into dual licensees that can serve the adult-use market when legalization takes effect next month. Also, as regulators publish new guidance for the...
Veteran-owned cannabis business coming to Neptune
Retired Army Capt. Evan Cleaver served in Afghanistan. NEPTUNE- A new veteran-owned cannabis business hopes to help former service members struggling with PTSD while also ending the stigma around cannabis use. Victory Natural Farms LLC, headed by retired Army Capt....
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.
Cannabis shop proposal could force debate over Richland pot ban. Here’s where it stands
Richland residents won’t get a city-sponsored forum to debate the longstanding ban on cannabis sales in the near future. A January request to authorize a cannabis store at Horn Rapid s would have …
Applications now open for Kentucky cannabis business licenses
Kentuckians can now begin applying for a cannabis business license, and medical providers can apply to Kentucky’s Board of Medical Licensure and Board of Nursing for permission to write cannabis …
‘Early mover advantage’: How Minnesota’s new social equity rules for cannabis businesses are playing out so far
Jessica Jackson looked out over a crowd of could-be recreational cannabis entrepreneurs gathered at Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis and asked for a show of hands.
Is GrowGeneration Corp. (GRWG) One of the Best Pot Stocks to Buy Right Now?
We recently compiled a list of the 8 Best Pot Stocks to Buy. In this article, we are going to take a look at where GrowGeneration Corp. (NASDAQ:GRWG) stands against the other pot stocks. The history …
New rules stir fear Black Missourians will once again lose out in marijuana licensing
When a marijuana legalization amendment was being criticized last year over concerns it would calcify the lack of Black participation in the burgeoning industry, Adolphus Pruitt was one of its most vociferous defenders. Pruitt, the president of the St. Louis City...
Big-time cannabis player Trulieve hits a limit in Massachusetts (Editorial)
When sharing bad news, big companies mask blunders with jargon. We saw that last week when Trulieve, one of the country’s largest cannabis operators, said it would pull out of Massachusetts, shuttering its massive Holyoke growing facility. Time to focus on “cash...
Podcast: 2023’s Booming Cannabis Industry, A Half-Year Round-Up
In this episode of The Hoban Minute, Bob and Xavier discuss how the first 6 months of 2023 have gone for the cannabis industry. From new marijuana markets in the U.S. to legalization abroad, Bob and Xavier cover the hottest topics of 2023 so far and put on their...
All of the challenges facing NYC’s legal marijuana efforts
I am the founder of Gotham, a legal cannabis concept store. I emphasize the word legal because, despite what most New Yorkers probably think, there are currently only seven legal cannabis dispensaries in all of New York City. The thousands of other...
Food, drink, pot under one roof: California state bill could allow for cannabis cafes
California cannabis users may soon not have to travel far to get a cup of coffee to go with their legal pot. The state’s assembly passed a bill Wednesday that would allow California’s localities the right to approve the sale of food and non-alcoholic...
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