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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…

Legal NY weed sellers want 1,000-foot buffer zone to stay, poll shows: ‘Market is way too fragile’

An overwhelming number of legal-pot-shop owners and licensees oppose loosening the buffer zone that bars cannabis stores from being located within 1,000 feet of each other, according to an industry poll. The survey, conducted by the 300-member New York Cannabis Retail Association,…

Can a Weed Hustler Go Legit?

A trip through the wild, winding world of New York City’s legal (and not-so-legal) cannabis market MY INITIATION INTO the cannabis trade began in a middle school bathroom. Dime bags led to ounces, which led to pounds, and in my early…

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…

Watch the Skies! Nova is Coming!

May 28, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Massachusetts-based Nova Farms is a very unique, if recognizable, breed of cannabis company, a throwback from the future, if you will, legacy at heart, sustainable by choice, modern in its thinking, wholesale but also retail, rooted to the soil but…

New York’s Marijuana Scorecard: 85 Legal Shops, 2,000 Illegal Ones

The lack of legal dispensaries and the overwhelming proliferation of illegal ones are the biggest concerns of the rollout three years after legalization. After three years of fits and starts, the rollout of New York’s recreational cannabis market gained speed…

They Signed Up to Grow Weed. Then New York State Pushed Them Into the Black Market

Weed legalization was supposed to prioritize mom-and-pop businesses — but for some upstate farmers, things didn't go as planned Just a few months before this, the deal would have seemed impossible: New York’s longtime underground growers, excluded from receiving the…

Hochul Pushes for Cannabis Crackdown to Get ‘Some Teeth’

Legal retailers are struggling to get their footing in the face of a much larger illicit market. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited New York City on Wednesday to drum up support for her latest proposals for shutting down the unlicensed marijuana…

Legal homegrown marijuana in N.Y. a step closer as new rules OK’d

February 18, 2024
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New York
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The regulations allowing anyone 21 or older to grow marijuana are subject to a 60-day public comment period before they become official The state Cannabis Control Board, which abruptly canceled its monthly meeting last month, on Friday adopted rules that…

Hochul’s cannabis conundrum: Stronger action, but greater political risk

February 16, 2024
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New York
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New York’s governor is taking on the troubled rollout of the state’s weed market. NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is finally weighing in on the state’s troubled cannabis market rollout — and she’s not happy. In recent…

BDSA Augurs Cautious Optimism for 2024

As 2023 ends, the focus of the cannabis industry shifts to 2024 and the trends that will determine the health of individual markets, specific market sectors, and the overall industry, which could possibly see movement at the federal level in…

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,…

Naturae Checks All the Right Boxes

November 21, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, New York, News & Insights
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As New York continues its circus-like effort to create a functional adult-use cannabis market, legal operators in the state are stuck with a slow-motion rollout that continues to threaten their ability to serve a state with too few legal stores…

Is NY’s Medical Market Getting Left In The Dust?

October 9, 2023
Pam Chmiel
New York
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New York's medical market is on the verge of expanding into the adult-use market, and many are rightfully concerned that their deep corporate pockets will have an unfair competitive advantage over bootstrapping entrepreneurs with less access to capital. This article…

Multistate Distro: Catching Up With Nabis

October 4, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, Distribution, News & Insights, Spotlight
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It is always edifying getting caught up with a distributor, especially a cannabis wholesaler whose bones were built in the hardscrabble California markets, where buzzards get fat on the unwary, the unlucky, and the lazy. To that end, Cannabis Business…