In recent years, as legalization moves ever forward, cannabis-centric parties have become all the rage, letting event hosts and chefs take their skills mainstream. However, with so many events taking place throughout California, they can start to feel repetitive and stale, lacking the uniqueness needed to leave guests with a lastingContinue Reading
Chicago-based Green Thumb Industries (GTI) announced Monday it completed its $59.6 million cash and stock acquisition of Fiorello Pharmaceuticals, one of 10 companies approved to operate a medical cannabis company in New York. Green Thumb purchased New York City-based Fiorello in a transaction involving $46 million in cash and 1.7Continue Reading
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced Monday that it will expand scientific and medical research of marijuana, a development that could ultimately boost industry prospects. But it’s unclear how soon additional research projects will be approved. The DEA said in a “notice to applications” filed with the Office of theContinue Reading
A Nevada judge halted the licensing process for several dozen new adult-use cannabis stores, siding with companies that lost bids to win the lucrative permits. Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez issued an injunction after she heard 18 days of evidence and testimony. All sides expect the ruling willContinue Reading
Canopy had second thoughts about a plan to build a facility in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, just outside of Montreal. The post Canopy Backpedals on Plan to Work With First Nations Community appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Canopy Backpedals on Plan to Work With First Nations CommunityContinue Reading
It starts as a tale of great genetics, as most strain stories do. Today, WiFi Mints from Seed Junky might be garnering the most hype of any new strain up and down the West Coast — and that’s thanks to its legendary parents. One side of the WiFi Mints lineageContinue Reading
Last December, East Fork Cultivars, an outdoor cannabis farm in the idyllic Illinois River Valley of Southern Oregon, partnered with Portland, Oregon-based agricultural genomics company Phylos Bioscience on a breeding program specifically targeting new varietal traits. How Phylos Bioscience sent shockwaves through the cannabis industry with ‘Big Ag’ disclosure isContinue Reading
Everyone in the United States is stoned. If that sounds like a bit of an exaggeration, we’re not going to lie, it sort of is. But it is not far-fetched to suggest that there could come a day when most of the population has settled into the cannabis scene inContinue Reading
The number of total authorizations granted to individual Brazilian patients to import medical cannabis since the program launched in 2014 surpassed 10,000 at the end of June 2019, according to data that the country’s health-care regulator shared directly with Marijuana Business Daily. Upon obtaining an authorization, Brazilian patients can import a maximum quantityContinue Reading
(This is an abridged version of a story that appears in the August issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Medical and recreational cannabis retail stores near state borders have tremendous business opportunities. They’re able to draw the interest of cannabis consumers in adjacent states that might prohibit the drug and can alsoContinue Reading
