Excerpts From President Trumps Historic Executive Order

By |2025-12-19T03:03:38+00:0019 December 2025|

Below are excerpts from the conversation at the White House press conference where President Trump signed an Executive Order to move marijuana from a Schedule 1 controlled drug to Schedule III. President Trump: Well, it was a big day, and many reasons, really, for many reasons, [...]

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Trump Reschedules Cannabis!

By |2025-12-19T03:03:35+00:0019 December 2025|

The moment many in the cannabis industry have been waiting for has finally arrived. Operators, investors, and advocates are cautiously celebrating President Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Justice to finalize the rescheduling of cannabis to Schedule III, an action many hope is a stepping [...]

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What Cannabis Branding Gets Right and Why Every Industry Should Follow Suit

By |2025-12-19T03:03:31+00:0019 December 2025|

81% of consumers need to trust a brand before they’ll even consider buying from it. But what happens when your industry is built on a shaky foundation—one full of stigma, skepticism, or confusion? That’s cannabis. And yet, some of the sharpest, most strategic brand-building I’ve seen [...]

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Why Cannabis Cultivation Needs a “Soil to Shelf” Standard

By |2025-12-18T03:22:39+00:0018 December 2025|

In cannabis cultivation today, many decisions are made in response to market pressures such as speed, yield, and potency. But after two decades in both cannabis cultivation and commercial horticulture, I’ve come to believe that the most valuable outcomes, both for consumers and cultivators, are the [...]

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Minnesota Continues To Break New Ground in Cannabis

By |2025-12-16T03:16:54+00:0016 December 2025|

Minnesota has one of the most progressive markets in the US to normalize cannabis. Liquor stores can sell certain hemp-derived THC products, and restaurants are serving THC drinks on tap if they obtain the appropriate registration or license. They are also introducing new ways to roll [...]

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Raising The Advocacy Spirit At MJBiz

By |2025-12-12T03:17:22+00:0012 December 2025|

Social equity in cannabis looks different in every state. At MJBizCon, the people working hardest to open doors for others came together to trade insights and discuss what it really takes to succeed and get a leg up. Kicking off the session was Cash Color Cannabis [...]

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Move Over Clones, Seeds Are Making A Comeback

By |2025-12-10T03:16:42+00:0010 December 2025|

Cutting cultivation costs was one of the loudest themes at this year’s MJBizCon. Michigan cultivator Kevin Kuethe, Chief Cultivation Officer at Lume, shared his strategy for combating price compression through genetics during a panel discussion titled “Mastering Genetics.” “The easiest way to do that is through [...]

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Untangling Another Hemp Loophole, International Trade, and Supply Chain Liability

By |2025-12-04T03:24:18+00:004 December 2025|

As the industry clings to the hope of rescheduling, legal chaos continues to intensify after Congress moved to close the hemp loophole. The new language, set to take effect next October, has many hemp beverage and edible companies scrambling for a Plan B. While the intent [...]

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From Craft to Scale: What Cannabis Can Learn from the Craft Beer Revolution

By |2025-12-02T03:10:59+00:002 December 2025|

The path cannabis is on isn’t new. The craft beer world walked it first, turning small, hands-on operations into efficient producers without losing their character. The lesson then, as now, was that passion alone doesn’t scale. Craft beer’s early boom wasn’t just cultural, it was operational. [...]

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Treating Cannabis Like A Fine Wine

By |2025-11-25T03:01:06+00:0025 November 2025|

The experience in both wine and cannabis starts with ritual: swirling, inhaling, letting heat or air coax the plant’s chemistry to life. Where wine has long relied on sommeliers to guide that moment, cannabis has spent decades without an equivalent voice to explain how cultivation, curing, [...]

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Is The Industry In Danger of Losing Its Prized Genetics?

By |2025-11-21T03:01:13+00:0021 November 2025|

In cannabis, everything begins with genetics. Before lighting, curing, irrigation, or any cultivation technique, there is the seed. And within that seed lives more than chemistry. It holds history, culture, and potential. Genetics are the soul of cannabis. They determine whether a cultivar expresses citrus or [...]

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Cannabis Banking Today: Navigating Verification, Compliance, and Regulatory Change

By |2025-11-20T03:03:52+00:0020 November 2025|

Banking for cannabis businesses has come a long way. Ten years ago, most banks wouldn’t even consider it. Conversations would stop almost as soon as they began. “Too risky,” they’d say. “Too unclear.” Or, “Maybe someday, but not now.” Fast forward to today, and Green Check [...]

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Can NY’s Legal Stores Compete with an Eight-Billion-Dollar Illicit Market?

By |2025-11-18T03:04:53+00:0018 November 2025|

The recent Business of Cannabis Summit in New York City brought together industry professionals at the trendy Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for a day focused on tackling the cannabis industry’s toughest challenges: price compression, retail survival, and the slow but steady shift from legacy to [...]

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International Trade and Cannabis Decontamination Considerations

By |2025-11-16T03:01:06+00:0016 November 2025|

With shifting perceptions, economic incentives, and the evolution of international regulatory frameworks, more countries around the world are starting to embrace legal cannabis for its medical and recreational uses. One of the hotspots of legalization remains the European Union, where countries like Malta and Luxembourg have [...]

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The Case for Outsourcing HR in Cannabis

By |2025-11-15T03:02:11+00:0015 November 2025|

Most cannabis operators I meet are juggling a lot more than they expected. One day they’re handling payroll, the next they’re sorting out compliance, and somehow still trying to grow the business. HR usually gets squeezed somewhere in between. It’s not that owners don’t care about [...]

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Mid Atlantic States Gather For The Accelerate Cannabis Summit

By |2025-11-15T03:02:03+00:0015 November 2025|

There was no more fitting venue for a cannabis industry gathering than the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. The historic setting served as the backdrop for the Accelerate Cannabis Summit, a groundbreaking event that brought together cannabis leaders, entrepreneurs, and government officials from across [...]

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Inside New York’s Cannabis Rollout: What’s Working, What’s Not

By |2025-11-14T03:04:01+00:0014 November 2025|

A panel discussion at the recent Business of Cannabis event in NYC analyzed the serious issues still facing the industry rollout in New York. What has been touted as a social equity-first initiative has been riddled with significant challenges and lawsuits. To date, the Office of [...]

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CTV Ads: A Breakthrough Opportunity for Cannabis Brands

By |2025-11-13T03:03:24+00:0013 November 2025|

For the first time, cannabis brands can claim airtime right alongside household names like Nike and Home Depot. Streaming platforms are serving Fortune 500 advertisers every hour, and now compliant cannabis companies are joining the lineup. This article breaks down how Connected TV (CTV) unlocks new [...]

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Drug Policy Alliance Founder Fires Up The Audience At The Business of Cannabis Event

By |2025-11-12T03:03:19+00:0012 November 2025|

The highlight of the Business of Cannabis event, held at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, a hip neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the keynote speaker. Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, has since retired from his position but continues to mentor and serve [...]

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The State of Ohio’s Cannabis Legal Landscape

By |2025-11-11T03:01:02+00:0011 November 2025|

This has been a whirlwind year in Washington, D.C., with the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the swearing in of a new Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. The “Republican trifecta” of the House, Senate, and administration has led to stalled progress with cannabis legalization, [...]

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An MSO’s Perspective on the New York Market

By |2025-11-08T03:01:50+00:008 November 2025|

At the recent Business of Cannabis event in New York, Robert Sciarrone, Chief Revenue Officer at Curaleaf, shared an MSO’s insider view on why he believes New York is poised to become the best cannabis market on the planet. Sciarrone began by reflecting on his early [...]

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The Shift Toward Stability Testing for Cannabis Products

By |2025-11-05T03:01:53+00:005 November 2025|

Cannabis products are increasingly held to the same standards as food and pharmaceuticals, and that means verifying how their potency and composition change over time. Cannabis stability testing provides the data needed to establish reliable shelf life, confirm product consistency, and guide formulation optimization for improved [...]

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How Does the X-Ray Method Work in Decontamination?

By |2025-11-04T03:01:33+00:004 November 2025|

As cannabis production scales and testing standards tighten, cultivators face increasing pressure to ensure their products are free from harmful microbes without compromising quality. Decontamination, the process of removing or killing microorganisms, has become a common step in post-harvest processing. Traditional methods come with trade-offs that [...]

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MariMed Is Raising The Bar For Cannabis Quality

By |2025-10-30T03:03:09+00:0030 October 2025|

MariMed, one of the nation’s leading multi-state cannabis operators, began in the medical cannabis market and expanded into adult-use as states legalized. Through this growth, the company has remained true to its “medical-first” approach, ensuring that product quality, safety, and consistency remain at the core of [...]

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The Fight For Cannabis and Cancer Research

By |2025-10-29T03:02:26+00:0029 October 2025|

For decades, cannabis has lived in a research dead zone. Federal prohibition has blocked meaningful grants, limited clinical trials, and left millions of people with cancer relying on anecdotal evidence for treatment rather than data.  As founders of E.R.I.C. Cancer Playbook, we refused to accept that. [...]

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The State Of New York’s Cannabis Industry 2025

By |2025-10-28T03:00:48+00:0028 October 2025|

Jason Ambrosino, a disabled Army veteran and founder of Veterans Holdings, entered the New York market in 2019 under the state’s hemp program with the goal of cultivating and manufacturing cannabis. But despite holding a 5,000-square-foot indoor cultivation license, he decided not to build out his [...]

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Platform Launches Promising Insurance Coverage for Medical Cannabis—For Real?

By |2025-10-24T03:01:36+01:0024 October 2025|

A new health-tech company, EM2P2, has launched CannaLnx, a HIPAA-compliant platform it claims will make medical cannabis reimbursable under traditional health insurance plans for the first time in the U.S. The system, announced in partnership with the American Council of Cannabis Medicine (ACCM), is described as [...]

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How ESOPs Can Save Cannabis Businesses A Ton of Money While Doing Good

By |2025-10-23T03:33:29+01:0023 October 2025|

In cannabis, it sometimes feels like every financial conversation ends the same way: “If not for 280E, we’d be thriving.” That line gets repeated in boardrooms and investor decks across the country, and for good reason. Section 280E has choked margins, slowed growth, and kept great [...]

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Why Dispensaries Can’t Afford to Neglect HR Compliance

By |2025-10-22T03:04:04+01:0022 October 2025|

Most cannabis dispensaries are small businesses. That often means they operate on tight margins and require employees to take on roles outside their typical job descriptions. It’s common for owners or general managers to handle HR and payroll functions themselves. What begins as an understandable cost-saving measure, however, [...]

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The Industry Is Failing At Last Mile Cannabis Preservation

By |2025-10-21T03:04:00+01:0021 October 2025|

Multiple scientific studies and lab results have provided compelling evidence that terpenes and volatile metabolites in cannabis rapidly degrade when exposed to light, oxygen, heat, and time, and therefore, reduce the entourage effect that depends on a specific balance of cannabinoids and terpenes. Because of this, [...]

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Target Just Opened the Door — Is Your Brand Compliance-Ready for Mass Retailers?

By |2025-10-17T03:04:19+01:0017 October 2025|

Target’s decision to start selling hemp-derived THC beverages marks a major milestone for the cannabis industry and a reality check for brands hoping to follow. Selling into mass retail is not just about scaling production or packaging appeal. It requires proving that your product meets the [...]

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Busting the Top 10 Myths About ESOPs: Why Cannabis Business Owners Can’t Afford to Ignore Them

By |2025-10-15T03:02:01+01:0015 October 2025|

In cannabis, it sometimes feels like every financial conversation ends the same way: “If not for 280E, we’d be thriving.” That line gets repeated in boardrooms and investor decks across the country, and for good reason. Section 280E has choked margins, slowed growth, and kept great [...]

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How Cannabis Moves Around the World: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By |2025-10-13T03:00:33+01:0013 October 2025|

Global cannabis trade is well underway as legalized countries move forward to establish a supply chain infrastructure in a newly formed and rapidly evolving industry. At the forefront of transportation logistics is Cannabilog, an Israeli company led by pharmaceutical industry veteran Yoram Eshel. In an interview, [...]

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Can Cannabinoids Help Keep the Aging Body Balanced?

By |2025-10-09T03:01:21+01:009 October 2025|

As our bodies age, the mechanisms that keep our systems humming, such as immune regulation, metabolism, and neural repair, gradually erode. That loss of homeostasis is the culprit behind many age-related disorders, from cognitive decline to metabolic dysfunction. Scientists are beginning to explore whether cannabis or [...]

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Seed to Sale with Silver Therapeutics

By |2025-10-07T03:02:17+01:007 October 2025|

Q&A with Brendan McGee, Founder, Silver Therapeutics Tell us about your product(s). What do you make or sell, and what should people know about it? At Silver Therapeutics, we’re driven to curate experiences that meet people where they are. From flower to prerolls to vapes, we [...]

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Meet The Female Founder Behind the Alibi Brand

By |2025-10-07T03:02:08+01:007 October 2025|

Alibi Cannabis website. Q&A Tell us about your product(s). What do you make or sell, and what should people know about it? Our roots are in cultivation, so everything starts with high-quality flowers.  In Oregon, our flower has won multiple awards, and we bring that focus [...]

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From Puerto Rico to NY: Meet Rosa Reta

By |2025-10-07T03:02:01+01:007 October 2025|

Website: rosareta.com Tell us about your product(s). What do you make or sell, and what should people know about it? Rosa Reta crafts solventless cannabis Live Rosin vapes (All-In-One), Bubble Hash Infused prerolls, and Rosin infused gummies. We focus on clean processing, full-spectrum flavor, and consistent quality [...]

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Why America Needs a National Medical Cannabis Program, Now

By |2025-10-07T03:01:56+01:007 October 2025|

The cannabis industry’s fragmented foundation is creating a host of problems tied to the lack of federal legalization. Many experts believe that without a national medical cannabis framework, the future of cannabis as a medicine in America could leave patients unprotected, research underfunded, and the industry [...]

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Why Franchises Could Be the Golden Ticket for Social Equity Entrepreneurs

By |2025-10-04T03:00:37+01:004 October 2025|

The cannabis industry is a fertile ground for aspiring entrepreneurs, holding the promise of a modern-day gold rush. Yet beneath the surface of opportunity lies a minefield of obstacles. Success requires navigating a steep learning curve, managing high operational costs, and mastering a complex supply chain [...]

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The United Nations Poised To Recognize Cannabis Culture

By |2025-10-01T03:02:32+01:001 October 2025|

Beyond its wellness benefits, cannabis carries a rich and diverse cultural legacy that spans the globe. In a  technical paper submitted to Mondiacult 2025, the Cannabis Embassy calls for global recognition of cannabis cultures as an integral part of humanity’s cultural diversity, and as essential to [...]

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An Inside Look at Germany’s Cannabis Supply Chain With The Grünhorn Group

By |2025-09-27T03:03:35+01:0027 September 2025|

On April 1, 2024, Germany launched Pillar 1 of its adult-use legalization framework, building on its established medical cannabis program that has been in place since 2017. Since then, the number of medical patients has surged, as prescriptions remain the only fully legal access point for [...]

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Blockchain-Powered Cannabis CTV Unlocks Advertising Opportunities

By |2025-09-27T03:03:29+01:0027 September 2025|

The next evolution of marketing in the cannabis industry has arrived. Global Compliance Application Corp. (GCAC), a publicly traded Canadian company specializing in blockchain technology, has launched Citizen Green, a connected TV (CTV) channel designed to educate viewers on various aspects of the cannabis industry. The [...]

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How To Grow Your Minor Cannabinoid Category

By |2025-09-26T03:04:57+01:0026 September 2025|

Over the course of three years, across 13 regulated U.S. markets, BayMedica, a company specializing in the production and distribution of rare cannabinoids, identified three key insights into market demand for these compounds. First, products featuring THCV posted a 23.7% higher average retail margin than comparable [...]

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Inside Red Light Holland’s Plan to Bring Psilocybin Products to the Global Market

By |2025-09-24T03:02:15+01:0024 September 2025|

Red Light Holland (CSE: TRIP) has established its foundation in the Netherlands, where psilocybin truffles, the underground sclerotia of psilocybin mushrooms, are legally permitted for cultivation and sale. The above-ground mushroom is prohibited, but the truffle is treated differently under Dutch law, despite delivering the same [...]

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MJBowl Comes For New York Brands

By |2025-09-21T03:02:46+01:0021 September 2025|

MJBizCon, the largest and one of the most influential gatherings in the cannabis industry, is adding a new element to its lineup: a cannabis competition. This year marks the debut of the MJBowl awards on December 4th in Las Vegas, produced in partnership with Budist, the [...]

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Taking Cannabis Global: Inside Somai Pharmaceuticals’ Multi-Country Strategy

By |2025-09-20T03:03:36+01:0020 September 2025|

  In an industry defined by local operators struggling to stay afloat and confined within their borders, Michael Sassano, founder and CEO of Somai Pharmaceuticals, has created a blueprint for scaling cannabis worldwide with pharmaceutical discipline and regulatory agility. With headquarters in Lisbon and operations in [...]

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Arizona Commands the Nation’s Highest Cannabis Business Valuations

By |2025-09-20T03:03:31+01:0020 September 2025|

Whether it’s a single retail license, a multi-site operation, or a vertically integrated enterprise, deals in Arizona are fetching top-tier premiums – often exceeding price points in larger, more mature markets like California. So, what’s driving these sky-high valuations? More importantly, how can industry players take [...]

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Why You Should Consider Medical-Grade Dry-Herb Vapes

By |2025-09-18T03:01:38+01:0018 September 2025|

Switching from smoking to dry-herb vaping offers a safer way to consume while also preserving the delicate terpene and cannabinoid profiles that contribute to the entourage effect. Unlike combustion, which produces tar, carbon monoxide, and other toxic byproducts, vaporization heats cannabis at controlled temperatures to release [...]

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NECANN Atlantic City: Insights on NJ’s Emerging Market

By |2025-09-17T03:02:28+01:0017 September 2025|

The excitement and interest around New Jersey are impossible to ignore because of its potential to be one of the most lucrative cannabis markets in the country. Since legalization, operators have been racing to open doors, capture consumers, and keep pace with evolving regulations, as they [...]

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Turning Crisis Into Opportunity- Navigating Cannabis Receivership Successfully

By |2025-09-17T03:02:26+01:0017 September 2025|

The age of cannabis receiverships is here. If you’re a creditor, operator, landlord, or investor in a troubled cannabis business, you have a choice: watch value evaporate, or step up and run a disciplined, court-supervised sale that maximizes recoveries and preserves the company as a going [...]

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