We love hemp, but the industry has a long way to go. There’s widespread deceptive labeling, undeclared (and sometimes even unknown) ingredients, a shameful lack of age-gating for online purchases, products evading safety testing, a culture of silent complicity among testing labs, high-THC products that don’t mention that they’re intoxicating, faked lab reports and a […]
Ohio recreational cannabis retailers recorded $242.2 million in sales in 2024 – only five months after the state launched its adult-use market. The state’s adult-use operators sold 4 million-plus units of manufactured products and 32,487 pounds of plant material sold through Dec. 28, the Ohio Capital Journal reported, citing data from the Department of Commerce […]
Just weeks after Charlene Briner said, “I didn’t grow up dreaming of being a cannabis regulator,” the interim director of Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) announced Monday that she is stepping down. Briner assumed the lead position in the office in June 2023, days after Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation making Minnesota the 23rd […]
While Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) had been managing to stay ahead of nonpaying tenants, the cannabis real estate investment trust (REIT) is now suffering along side the rest of the cannabis industry. The reason? One of its largest portfolio holdings has joined the nonpaying cohort. And now shareholders are throwing in the towel. In […]
[PRESS RELEASE] – BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2024 – Dr. Marion McNabb, the president of the Cannabis Center of Excellence, has received approval from federal administrative law judge (ALJ) John J. Mulrooney to serve as one of only 24 expert witnesses allowed to testify at the historic hearing to reschedule cannabis at the federal level. McNabb […]
Cannabis industry players are cranking up accusations that the Drug Enforcement Administration has engaged in improper behind-the-scenes communications and demonstrated deep-seated bias in its handling of marijuana rescheduling proceedings. Village Farms International (NASDAQ: VFF) and advocacy group Hemp for Victory filed a motion Monday with the DEA’s administrative law court requesting the agency be disqualified […]
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Reaching consensus on hotly debated issues is rare in the cannabis space, especially when it comes to potential ramifications of marijuana rescheduling. Some industry experts, such as cannabis hedge fund manager Patrick Rea, are optimistic that a wall of capital will flow into the sector, given the right catalyst. Others, including banker Peter Su, remain […]
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Owen Smith who calls himself a “Cannabis Edutainer” has posted this pdf, with a few pithy one liners and lots of pictures on linked in. He doesn’t make it clear whether he created this document himself of it comes from a third party? Are there changes afoot if the Conservatives get in , in Canada? […]
