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Colorado cannabis companies have a new strategy to attract more hesitant customers: weaker weed

November 26, 2024
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“Low-dose cannabis products are one of the products in demand right now,” industry leader says At Terrapin Care Station, a Denver dispensary on Broadway, area manager Adam Shepler stood behind a counter displaying an array of more than 20 low-dose…

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…

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Colorado’s Weed Market Is Coming Down Hard and It’s Making Other States Nervous

Businesses are shuttering or laying off workers as sales have plunged by $700 million. On Jan. 1, 2014, Iraq War veteran Sean Azzariti made headlines worldwide as the first person in the U.S. to buy legal weed. More than 10 years…

A Conversation with Canna Provisions’ Meg Sanders

March 12, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Massachusetts, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Meg Sanders is co-founder and CEO of Massachusetts-based Canna Provisions, which currently boasts two popular retail outlets, one in the Berkshire/Western Mass. town of Lee, the other in the small nearby city of Holyoke. The company also produces products under…

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Welcome to Colorado’s First Cannabis Ghost Town

Ten years into recreational sales, Colorado cannabis is high and dry. Gravel crunches underfoot on the sun-cooked Maverick Lane, whose addresses don't exist in Google Maps. Tumbleweeds roll by abandoned buildings and faded real estate signs. A few doors are…

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Cannabis taxes have not solved Colorado’s budget woes

December 11, 2023
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Cannabis taxes did not solve Colorado’s budget woes. That was never promised, or even implied by supporters of legalization. But some money is better than no money. From the earliest days of the 2012 political campaign to legalize cannabis, there…

Governors Urge Biden To Reschedule Marijuana By The End Of This Year

The governors of six states have jointly written a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to ensure marijuana is rescheduled by the end of this year. The letter, signed by the governors of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey,…

Feud over power at Colorado cannabis farm heats up

November 6, 2023
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Area 420, one of the largest commercial pot operations in the country, is the backdrop for a legal showdown between its owner and an aspiring marijuana grower. An aspiring recreational marijuana grower who bought land at one of the largest…

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Colorado’s cannabis industry has fallen on hard times. What does the future hold?

Too much supply, not enough demand, plunging prices, a lack of cannabis tourism and more put pressure on marijuana market The heyday of marijuana sales in Colorado — back in 2020 when recreational and medical sales topped out at a…

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…

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…

Native Roots’ Buck Dutton on Creating Effective Marketing Strategies

Once thought to be an easy sell, hitting a cannabis home run in the legal market has turned out to be a challenging pastime for practitioners of the marketing arts, no matter the breadth and depth of experience they bring…

After election, marijuana advocates look to next states

Law-abiding marijuana enthusiasts could find themselves in a bit of a predicament following voter approval of a recreational cannabis initiative in Missouri. Though it soon will become legal for adults to possess and ingest cannabis, it could take a couple…

Building on the Legacy of Cheeba Chews

October 26, 2022
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Multiple State Brands, News & Insights
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There is not much brand recognition in cannabis still to this day, so it was somewhat notable in 2020 when Green Horizons released a survey indicating that, among other findings, “Across 20 brands tested, only three—Leafs by Snoop, Cheeba Chews,…

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