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Muha Meds Marries Opportunity and Efficiency

October 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Muha Meds is a Los Angeles-based cannabis MSO that was started in 2015 as a “traditional” market delivery service by entrepreneur brothers Ali and Muhammad Garawi, who went legal a few years later with a collection of vape cartridges. Building…

As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms

The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong. In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they consume it practically all…

Gov. Newsom’s Farmers Market Veto Sows Disappointment, Confusion, Allegations

October 2, 2024
Tom Hymes
California, Cultivation, News & Insights
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In a last-minute decision that dashes the hopes of California’s remaining small-batch cannabis cultivators that a lifeline of revenue in the form of farmers markets might be in the offing after years of negotiation, Governor Newsom vetoed AB 1111 just…

Networking in Cannabis: Why a Support System is Necessary

Michael Mejer, Founder, Green Lane Communication The expressions, “your network is your net worth” and “you are the average of the five people you surround yourself with” couldn’t be more true in business, but these phrases are especially true in…

5 things to know from this week’s big report on cannabis

More than half of all U.S. states have legalized cannabis, be it for medical purposes, recreational use, or both. The shelves of cannabis dispensaries offer an ever-widening array of gummies, drinks and joints. Meanwhile, the federal government still considers most…

How a ‘well-known secret’ in Massachusetts cannabis testing is obscuring what’s in your weed

‘No testing would be better than what we do today,’ one lab founder said. Holistic Industries knew its marijuana-growing facility in Massachusetts had a mold problem in 2020 and 2021. To sell its cannabis, Holistic had to have it tested…

Blinded by the Bud: A Craft Conversation with Brighterside Farms

September 26, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Cultivation, New Jersey, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The people behind New Jersey cultivator Brighterside Farms may be relatively new to the state, but they are anything but new to cannabis. Their cultivating roots extend back to 2006 and way past that as well, first back east during…

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Top Press Release Trends Cannabis Businesses Should Know to Generate More Publicity

September 24, 2024
Susan Gunelius
Marketing
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Press releases aren’t dead yet. They’re still an effective tool to generate publicity for cannabis businesses for a number of reasons. Not only do journalists look for and want press releases to help them write stories, but press releases also…

Eye in the Sky: Neatleaf is Watching Your Plants

September 17, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Cultivation, News & Insights
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Neatleaf is like a Terminator for plants: it never sleeps, it never eats, and it will never ever stop monitoring your plants to make sure they stay alive. If that was good enough for Sarah Connor, it should be good…

The War on Drugs and Its Repercussions: A New Era for Cannabis Justice

By Derek Ross, CEO, Nova Farms Initiated in the early 1970s, the War on Drugs aimed to curb illegal drug use and distribution in the United States. However, its impact has been far-reaching and deeply problematic, particularly for those caught…

Nixon Started the War on Drugs. Privately, He Said Pot Was ‘Not Particularly Dangerous.’

President Richard Nixon’s remarks were captured on his secret White House recording system but had eluded the notice of leading Nixon era historians until now. Two years after former President Richard M. Nixon launched a war on drugs in 1971, calling…

What Makes Cannabis Banking Programs Unique and Stand Out from Others

September 12, 2024
Paul Dunford
Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Social Equity
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By Paul Dunford Considering there is no other industry today where a business can be engaged in activities that are simultaneously prohibited under federal law but sanctioned by the state, banking cannabis (marijuana specifically) is inherently unique. Through FinCEN’s 2014…

Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

September 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Spotlight, Standards and Certification
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The introduction of regulated medical and adult-use cannabis markets was supposed to guarantee that legal weed was clean weed, but somewhere along the line that message got reinterpreted as legal weed is tested weed, which is supposed to mean the…

Raid finds an illegal weed grow in home owned by Oakland police officer

September 4, 2024
AggregatedNews
Black Market, California, News & Insights
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When officers of the state Department of Cannabis Control swooped in on a neighborhood in the Bay Area city of Antioch this spring, they found what they were looking for — about $1 million in illegal marijuana — and one…

Metrc CEO Michael Johnson Talks Retail ID and Securing the Cannabis Supply Chain

September 3, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight
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Earlier this month, Lakeland, FL.-based Metrc announced the launch of Metrc Retail ID, "a new solution designed to enhance supply chain transparency, bolster compliance, simplify brand processes, and reduce labor for retailers and brands through item level identification with serialized…