Economics
Cannabis Firms Seeks Freedom from Heavy Tax Burden
As the Biden administration continues its review of cannabis prohibition, business leaders in the regulated cannabis industry are looking to the possible rescheduling of marijuana under federal drug laws to end the potentially...
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New York Cannabis Delivery Rules Released
The New York Office of Cannabis Management recently published guidance for licensed recreational marijuana retailers that wish to make home deliveries of cannabis products. The New York cannabis delivery rules for adult-use...
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Carbon Dioxide Shortage Impacts Cannabis
Most American consumers are familiar with carbon dioxide, the ubiquitous gas that tickles the nose as a glass of freshly poured cola is enjoyed on a hot summer day. Beyond fizzy beverages, carbon dioxide (CO₂) is also used...
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How Did ScottsMiracle-Gro Become a Cannabis Power Player?
Cannabis legalization continues to make headway in the US and beyond, creating economic opportunities for companies in a host of industries. Much of the investment in the cannabis economy has been put into new companies that...
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Canadian Cannabis Companies Collapsed; Are US MSOs Next?
Playing the stock market means navigating a high-wire act between profound regret and untold reward, but in cannabis, it’s mostly the former. Over the past decade, second only to cryptobro regret is the FOMO felt by investors...
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Hispanic Cannabis Entrepreneurs Gain a Foothold
As cannabis policy reform measures taking hold across the country provide new economic opportunities, entrepreneurs from all walks of life are working to make a place for themselves in the regulated marijuana industry. But...
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Ohio Program Trains Cannabis Offenders for Industry Jobs
An Ohio nonprofit organization providing services for formerly incarcerated people has teamed up with a medical marijuana cultivator to develop a cannabis jobs training program for individuals with past  marijuana convictions. Dubbed...
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Why Does Weed Still Cost So Much?
If you’ve purchased cannabis in the US anytime over the past several months, years or even decades, you’ve likely noticed that while specials come and go, the rough price of an eighth of an ounce of weed has hovered reliably...
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5 Cannabis Organizations to Donate to this Holiday Season
No matter what time of year it is, it’s always good to try and be helpful to those around you whether it’s donating time, money or resources. But, during the end of the year is when the Christmas spirit is high and people...
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Cannabis Investor Sees Strength in Numbers
In 2016, the NFL Players’ Association reported that the average career lasts 3.3 years. Of those players, 78% would lose all their career earnings within three years of leaving the league. Matthew Nordgren would play just...
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COVID-19 Supply Chain Crunch Impacts Cannabis Industry
One of the great struggles of today’s legal, publicly traded cannabis industry is to wedge a perishable agricultural product into the shelf-stable, uniformly sized box of a consumer packaged good. This means that the modern...
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6 Tips to Securing a Career in the Cannabis Industry
With medical marijuana laws established in over half of the 50 states, and several in the midst of implementing adult use, some experts argue cannabis is the fastest growing industry in the U.S. Certainly there will continue...
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Illinois Notches Record-Breaking Cannabis Sales in June
The cannabis industry in Illinois, which in June 2019 became the latest state to legalize, broke its own record for recreational sales last month. The Prairie State’s 56 adult-use dispensaries sold nearly a million cannabis...
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7 Odd New Ways Companies Want You to Consume CBD
Just a few years ago, farmers in the United States were only growing a little more than 9,000 acres of hemp a year. But by 2019, that number had skyrocketed to over 500,000 acres — and much of that growth has been powered...
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Build Your Own Cannabis Accounting Firm with Dope CFO
The more states that come around with regard to cannabis legalization, the greater the need for knowledgeable and capable accountants, CPAs, enrolled agents, bookkeepers and CFOs, for those businesses looking to get into...
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Coronavirus Preppers Are Big Money for Cannabis Industry
The legal cannabis market experienced its biggest run on product ever yesterday as consumers across America stood in lines wrapping around the block in hopes of scoring pot before being locked down by coronavirus.  With...
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CBD Company Pivots to Hand Sanitizer
Sam Belanger runs a CBD company, and is well aware that CBD is no longer the hottest product on the market. Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, hand sanitizer might hold that title and like nearly everyone else on earth,...
3y
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Canadian Cannabis Buyers Want Mids
It’s not that startup companies trying to hype up their valuations are dumb. But if they aren’t foolish or deluded, unicorns, in both the weed and the normie world, are deliberately misleading. Blue Apron, the cook-it-yourself...
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Hotels Profit From Marijuana Legalization
One of the most overlooked benefits of marijuana legalization is the boost it gives businesses that don’t have anything to do with weed. Long before so much as a gram of pot can be sold, realtors, contractors and construction...
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Fire Damages Cannabis Institution Oaksterdam University
An early morning fire Sunday damaged the downtown Oakland buildings housing famed cannabis college Oaksterdam University and the adjacent Patient ID Center, the school’s executive chancellor confirmed to Cannabis Now. Early...
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Weed in Wine Country
On the way north from San Francisco to the Emerald Triangle you must pass through some of the state’s most storied agricultural lands in Wine Country, including Sonoma County where the cannabis industry now faces unique...
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