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In Pursuit of a Bettering Edible Experience

July 23, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Edibles & Infused Processors, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The Bettering Company is a Chicago, Illinois-based manufacturer of high-quality, hand-crafted, vegan, and gluten-free edibles that recently expanded operations into New York, with more states on the way. Currently available in about ten stores in the Empire State, Bettering gummies…

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How Minnesota accidentally created America’s weed beverage capital

The state’s market for THC drinks has exploded into a nearly $200 million industry over the last two years. MINNEAPOLIS — Call it the Minnesota Weed Miracle. State lawmakers — some with no clue what they were doing — voted with little fanfare…

A CanPay Path to Payment

April 30, 2024
Tom Hymes
Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Company Stories, Processing, Spotlight
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Easy electronic payment is always the goal for any consumer-facing industry, and it is especially needed in ones where cash has been the principal form of currency for both illicit and legal sales, like cannabis. But because it is still…

What’s in Your “THC Beverages”?

By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell In November of last year, we wrote about how Total Wine & More jumped into the cannabis drinks arena in Minnesota. Since then (and probably before that), there’s been an influx of “THC…

Are Edibles Safer Than Smoking?

Cannabis-infused chocolate fountains are flowing at weddings. “Budtenders” are pouring cannabis cocktails. And as sales of edibles are trending up, cannabis brands are emphasizing the idea that the products might offer a healthier alternative to bongs or blunts. “Edibles allow you to enjoy cannabis without…

Kanha: Still Bullish on Thailand

December 5, 2023
Tom Hymes
Edibles & Infused Processors, News & Insights, Spotlight, Thailand
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It only took a year for Thailand’s cannabis economy, if you will, to create so much concern in the easygoing nation of 70 million that a newly elected government in September announced plans to “rectify” its predecessor’s nascent cannabis policy,…

Magnolia Bakery is turning its most iconic desserts into cannabis edibles

Magnolia Bakery’s famous banana pudding is being whipped up in a new version that triggers elation in a different kind of way. The New York City-based dessert maker is transforming some of its famous treats into THC-infused edibles, including its…

CEO Marc Beginin on the Promise of Prodigy Processing Solutions

September 14, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Processing
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Prodigy Processing Solution could be seen as the cannabis second act for founder and CEO Marc Beginin, an attorney and entrepreneur who founded a similar company, Precision Extraction Solutions, in 2014 before it was sold to Agrify in October 2021…

Mother, son create ‘reverse edible’ chocolate for ‘soft landing’ from marijuana high

The legalization of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts has more people than ever experimenting with cannabis. But with that experimentation, can come a high you may not like or expected. A mother and son team from Boston believe they may have…

New Mexico’s Mountaintop Extracts Aims for Pure Heights

May 30, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Processing, Spotlight
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With a name like Mountaintop Extracts, one might assume that delivering the highest high was the goal of the founders of this Albuquerque, New Mexico-based producer, but it was not. Their objective was to produce the purest, cleanest cannabis oil…

Schrödinger’s Lozenge: Is a lozenge an edible, or an extract? In Canada, the answer depends on if it’s a cannabis product.

April 18, 2023
Brian MacIver
Canada, Edibles & Infused Processors, News & Insights
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In January 2023, Health Canada, the federal authority overseeing the sale of medical and adult-use cannabis in Canada, began issuing stop-sale letters to licensed producers manufacturing “edible extracts,” mostly lozenges and dissolvable gummies. These products, producers held, were classified as…

Root Sciences’ ‘Soup-to-Nuts’ Approach

Fadi Yashruti, CEO and co-founder of cannabis extraction and remediation equipment distributor Root Sciences, knows first-hand the challenges cannabis operators experience. That’s because, in addition to running an equipment distribution company, he also operates Suspended Brands, a cannabis cultivation and…

Cannabis Infused Beverage

Cannabis Beverage Makers Have Alcohol Market in Their Sights

Alcohol has long been the dominant social lubricant — but the growing cannabis industry wants to offer a replacement. The market for beverages made with THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient, is growing. Smaller players are looking to do more than just get people high…

Boston Beer Is Moving Into Weed With a Cannabis-Infused Drink

Boston Beer said it is introducing a line of cannabis-infused beverages that will be available throughout Canada in July. The launch of TeaPot, a line of teas containing five milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, per can, will make Boston Beer one of the…

Major food brands seek crackdown on marijuana-infused copycats

Two fourth-graders in Edmond, Okla., went to the hospital after eating what looked like commercial gummy candies. In Cooper City, Fla., nine children were hospitalized after snarfing what seemed almost identical to a common brand of sour candy. And in…

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