Being one of a small number of stores in a cannabis desert might seem like an easy proposition: Open your doors and let customers roll in,...
Post-Prohibition, the alcoholic beverage industry had a head start of nearly 80 years before voters legalized the United States’ first regulated, adult-use marijuana markets in 2012....
Flourish Labs is testing legal psilocybin in Oregon. When Oregon voters passed Proposition 109 in 2020, they cleared a path for greater access to the therapeutic use of...
A state’s cannabis regulations can run hundreds of pages and contain even more rules. But the regulators who create these rules and law enforcement officials who enforce...
A recent court verdict found a Czech Republic cannabis magazine publisher guilty of “inciting the abuse of addictive substances” and “spreading drug addiction through his magazine.”...
Heavy Metal, the brand made famous by its science fiction magazine and feature film, is partnering with a Massachusetts cannabis company to bring branded weed products...
When Jesce Horton began looking for his first warehouse to cultivate cannabis in Oregon’s regulated market, landlords for Portland properties routinely charged marijuana companies three to...
When it comes to borrowing money as a marijuana company, most roads lead to real estate. “The industry has challenges accessing capital markets that other industries...
Experienced cannabis entrepreneurs know that ancillary companies such as construction and banking providers often charge marijuana businesses more than their non-plant-touching counterparts—the so-called “green tax.” The...
Few factors are more important to a cannabis company’s success than where it chooses to locate, be it a cultivator, manufacturer or retailer. Cultivators and manufacturers...