Month: June 2018 (Page 32)

The small number of licensed cannabis producers in Manitoba has kept a lid on ancillary opportunities, but that hasn’t stopped them from leveraging the province’s benefits, including a business-friendly recreational marijuana framework and some of the cheapest electricity in North America. Provincial Preview: Manitoba cannabis businesses ‘sitting on perfect stormContinue Reading

Californians again proved their support for the elected officials who helped create and continue to fine-tune the world’s largest legal marijuana market. Across the state, these pro-cannabis candidates fended off challengers to find victory, while the state’s U.S. senator switched her position so her opponents wouldn’t have an anti-legalization stanceContinue Reading

Earlier this year, David Hua, the co-founder and CEO of Meadow, a San Francisco-based software platform for cannabis businesses, realized he needed a break. Not just him, not just his company — but the entire California cannabis industry, all (or most) $7 billion of it. As the world knows, retailContinue Reading

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set this July as the deadline for passage of the long-anticipated cannabis legalization law in Canada. The new law will be phased in over a period of several weeks, but the first legal sales are expected by summer’s end. However, it won’t be a uniformContinue Reading