Last Friday, the cannabis brand Cookies opened a new dispensary in Oakland, launching in the heart of the city’s downtown neighborhood. The Cookies brand is backed and inspired by the genetics of The Cookie Fam, whose Girl Scout Cookies strain took over the West Coast a decade ago. One might argue Cookies’Continue Reading
Andrea Small-Howard has a unique view into how the medical side of the cannabis space is evolving. She’s the chief science officer at GB Sciences, a Las Vegas-based marijuana company pursuing two strategies – one recreational, and the other aiming for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of itsContinue Reading
Vertically integrated marijuana company MedMen, one of the most high-profile cannabis retailers in the U.S., announced more layoffs on Wednesday. “This week, the company provided layoff notices to an additional 20% of its corporate-level employees,” MedMen said in a news release. “In total, over the past 30 days, the companyContinue Reading
Marijuana Business Daily and New York-based financial investment advisory firm Cowen on Wednesday announced an exclusive partnership in which MJBizDaily will distribute Cowen’s cannabis industry reports and MJ policy research. Distribution of Cowen’s cannabis-related research by MJBizDaily is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2020. Cowen’s cannabis research features Wall StreetContinue Reading
LAS VEGAS – Members of the cannabis industry’s brain trust used the first day of MJBizCon to share predictions for 2020 and describe how changing attitudes in the United States might affect future marijuana legalization efforts – plus more coverage from this week’s conference in Las Vegas. In his keynote presentationContinue Reading
Aurora Cannabis was forced to stop sales of medical marijuana in Germany over “a form of treatment that we use to maintain the product without microbial contamination,” Cam Battley, the Alberta, Canada, company’s chief corporate officer, said at Marijuana Business Daily’s Investor Intelligence Conference. Aurora details why it temporarily halted GermanContinue Reading
The cannabis stock meltdown that erased $49 billion in enterprise value this year should begin to shift in 2020 as the industry leaders separate themselves, one of Canada’s largest investment banks forecasts. A new CIBC World Markets report by John Zamparo, director of institutional equity research, called this year’s “rationalization” ofContinue Reading
Two Massachusetts agencies agreed to share information with each other to determine if six probable cases of vaping-related lung illnesses are linked to state-licensed marijuana retailers. Vaping regulations is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs Read More: Vaping regulationsContinue Reading
In the grand panoply of grand exits, Debbie Peterson’s is memorable. Until last February, Peterson, the former mayor of Grover Beach, a small city on the Central California coast in San Luis Obispo County, was serving on the city council, a post she had held for more than 10 years.Continue Reading
On Dec. 3, Brazil approved new rules to allowing the import and sale of medicinal cannabis-based products, but at the same time, it turned down a proposal to allow domestic marijuana cultivation. Brazil’s medical marijuana program has languished for years and these new regulations could spell significant if still limitedContinue Reading
