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TerrAscend Maintains Its Balance in an Uncertain Market

June 12, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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TerrAscend (CSE: TER) (OTCQX: TRSSF) is a Canadian public company with operations in Canada and five U.S. states: California, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, where it has its greatest concentration of retail outlets. A vertical integrated company in each…

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…

Quality Management Systems Part Two: Defining Quality

By Leslie Engelking This is the second in an ongoing series of articles on Quality Management Systems designed to educate the cannabis industry. Before beginning the process of building a Quality Management System for your cannabis business, it is important to…

Trade Show Talk with MJ Unpacked CEO George Jage

May 16, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Marketing, News & Insights, Spotlight
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In the aftermath of the recently concluded MJ Unpacked in New York City, a very well-attended and produced event whose attendees were palpably flush with excitement and optimism with the opening of adult-use sales in the state and the promise…

Brand Market Expansion Part 3: Agreement Negotiations and Closing

By Erik Ott In Part 2 of the Brand Market Expansion Series, we considered initial engagement with prospective partners and provided a roadmap for making an informed decision. In Part 3 we look at negotiations of key commercial terms to…

The Tao of Grasshopper Farms

May 9, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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A conversation with Grasshopper Farms founder and owner Will Bowden is not quite what one might expect to have with a former SWAT officer, but that is probably because most of us do not regularly converse with former SWAT officers…

That THC is Too D*** High: Perverted incentives create cannabis testing chaos across most markets.

The cannabis industry, like Major League Baseball during its 30-year steroid era, has a juicing problem. Reports of inflated THC figures on cannabis flower and pre-roll packaging are widespread across all mature markets, including in Canada. For example, in a…

Brand Market Expansion: What’s Involved Part 2

Part 2: Initial Partnership Engagement and Analysis In Part 1 we discussed the key components of a brand’s preliminary due diligence effort prior to engaging a market. In Part 2 we look at initial engagement with prospect partners and provide…

Three Tips for Improving the Resource Use Efficiency of Your Cultivation Business

A recent survey among flower and vegetable growers revealed that cost of production is among the top four most pressing concerns for commercial greenhouse operators. Why does this matter? Because these growers aren’t cultivating quasi-illegal crops subject to sky-high excise…

Brand Market Expansion: Negotiating IP Licensing Deals – What’s Involved

April 12, 2023
Erik Ott
Intellectual Property, Marketing, Spotlight
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The cannabis industry has reached peak expansion mode as brands and licensed operators across the states form IP licensing agreements to enter new markets. While there are many different approaches to brand expansion, as we have begun to document in…

High Tide: Catching Up With The Costco of Cannabis

April 10, 2023
Tom Hymes
Canada, Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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A lot has happened in the seven long dog years since Cannabis Business Executive last profiled Calgary, Alberta-based High Tide Inc., Canada’s cannabis retail juggernaut whose expanse of stores spans provinces and time zones and is only getting larger. In…

MPG Consulting: Time Travelers for the Cannabis Industry

April 6, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Interstate Commerce, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Since its founding by Adam Orens in 2014, Colorado-based MPG Consulting, formerly The Marijuana Policy Group, has been helping industry stakeholders with an array of professional services that include market research and analysis, business plan creation, strategic investments, licensing, and…

Cannabis POS and Payments Company POSaBIT Buys Hypur

April 3, 2023
Brian MacIver
Mergers & Acquisitions, Science and Technology, Spotlight
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POSaBIT, a Seattle-based cannabis point-of-sale (POS) and payments software company, this morning announced its acquisition of cannabis and crypto payments and compliance services company Hypur in a cash and equity transaction valued at up to US$7.5 million The acquisition positions…

MariMed CEO Jon Levine and the Making of a Cinderella Story

March 27, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Operators, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Norwood, Massachusetts-based MariMed Inc. (MRMD; OTCQX) underwent a profound loss in December of last year with the unexpected passing of Bob Fireman, its co-founder and chief executive and a man who, as I quickly learned during an interview in December…

Superstate Operator: Glass House Brands’ Graham Farrar on the Supremacy of California Cannabis

March 20, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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It has been one year since Long Beach, California-based Glass House Brands (NEO:GLAS.A.U) (NEO:GLAS.WT.U) (OTCQX:GLASF) (OTCQX:GHBWF) announced the start of cultivation at the 5.5 million square-foot facility located in the Santa Barbara County city of Carpenteria that it had bought…