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Sun Theory Puts the Sum of Its Parts to Work

December 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Colorado, Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Colorado-based Sun Theory is a distinctive type of cannabis company, forged out of experience, built to meet everyday demands, flush enough to control its immediate destiny, but still flexible enough to roll with the punches. Founded in 2017 by CEO…

Deep Roots Harvest Doubles Down on Nevada

December 4, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Nevada, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Deep Roots Harvest was founded in 2014 as a cultivator-first operation in Nevada’s medical cannabis market that from the get-go favored the customer loyalty that comes with more rural locations over the fast-paced, impersonal, tourist-based cannabis economy found in Las…

Green Dragon founders fired up to “get back to where we were” with new joint

The trio say they’re now focused on Fired, which has seven stores in the works between Denver and Aurora. The first dispensary chain founded by Alex Levine, Andy Levine and Lisa Leder is preparing to cease operations in Colorado, three years…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Alien Labs Invades New Markets With Quality Cannabis

August 6, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Cultivation, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Founded in 2014 on skills honed long before legalization, Redding, California-based Alien Labs has over the years built a rock-solid reputation for top-shelf flower (and other products) that it is now exporting to other states as part of a growth…

Texas Is Headed For a Hemp Industry Showdown

July 30, 2024
Tom Hymes
Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight, Texas
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As the once simmering conflict between the hemp and cannabis industries develops into a conflagration of litigation and legislation in courtrooms and state houses around the nation, Texas looks as though it could become a flashpoint in the internecine war…

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…

Ethos Cannabis CEO Gibran Washington on Growth and Profitability

July 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Pennsylvania, Spotlight
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Based out of Philadelphia, Ethos Cannabis is one of those rare beasts in the cannabis realm, a profitable multistate operator whose growth trajectory is up and under control, and whose ambitions, borne of discipline and focus, are seen by its…

Curaleaf’s ‘The Hemp Company’ Delivers with DoorDash (UPDATED)

June 24, 2024
Tom Hymes
Delivery Service, Hemp Industry News, Multiple State Operators, Spotlight
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Curaleaf announced several launches on Monday, all of them related to hemp-derived THC products that are ostensibly compliant with the 2018 Farm Bill. First, Curaleaf announced the launch of an “all-new line of hemp derived THC products under its Select…

In Hawaii, Hope Springs Eternal Following Adult-Use Defeat

June 18, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, Spotlight
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As the dust settles following the recent failure of Hawaiian state legislators to pass legislation regulating the sale of adult-use cannabis, licensed operators are once again left wondering what the future holds not just for the so-called recreational use of…

The Expanding Tao of Shangri-La

June 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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The fictional Shangri-La was a hidden valley tucked into the western end of Tibet’s Kunlun Mountains; a mystical paradise isolated from the world. For brothers Nevil and Kepal Patel, however, Shangri-La means the opposite of isolation. Instead, they are in…

Cannabis Regulators and Stakeholders Meet Again

June 10, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hemp Industry News, Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Last week, the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA) held an external stakeholders meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota that brought the nation’s cannabis dealers (i.e. the regulators) together to commiserate with 175 "attending organizations" that represent the interests of constituencies within the cannabis…

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