Massachusetts’ marijuana social equity grant program awards $2.35M in launch
A long-delayed social equity fund intended to prop up small marijuana businesses in Massachusetts has launched.
A long-delayed social equity fund intended to prop up small marijuana businesses in Massachusetts has launched.
Cannabis multistate operator Curaleaf Holdings completed its acquisition of Northern Green Canada, a licensed producer in Ontario whose focus has been on international markets.
Marijuana retailers using Dutchie e-commerce systems reported widespread outages on April 20, the cannabis industry’s top day for sales.
A New Mexico congressman is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to account for what regulated marijuana operators claim is a rash of seizures of state-legal cannabis at Customs and Border Protection checkpoints.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will sign off on moving marijuana to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act, one federal lawmaker believes.
U.S. liquor retail chain Total Wine & More is making THC and CBD drinks by Texas-based Hill Beverage Co. available to consumers nationwide via delivery.
Illinois lawmakers and a trade group representing state licensed marijuana companies are calling for a ban on intoxicating hemp products such as delta-8 and delta-10.
Beverage alcohol company Constellation Brands has converted its shares in Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. into new exchangeable shares.
After years of wild fluctuations for domestic hemp growers, prices and acreage in many states are stable or growing, according to the National Hemp Report.
Kentucky medical cannabis operators can apply for business licenses as early as July, setting up an MMJ market launch in early 2025.
A protest is expected to greet customers visiting Curaleaf Holdings’ marijuana store on Camelback Road in Phoenix on Saturday – the 4/20 unofficial cannabis holiday and one of the busiest days of the year for retailers.
Colorado cannabis edibles brand Coda Signature will live on after the manufacturer’s assets were acquired by Canvas 1839 Group for an undisclosed sum.
As the marijuana industry gears up for the biggest sales day of the year, retailers, point-of-sale (POS) and e-commerce service providers are working to avert another online disaster.
North Dakota voters could see a “consumer-friendly, yet highly regulated” recreational cannabis legalization proposal on their November ballots.
Eaze Technologies and union negotiators said Wednesday they reached a settlement to avert a work stoppage across California on April 20, the biggest retail day of the year for the marijuana industry.
Cannabis production technology company Agrify Corp. is being acquired by controlled environment agriculture tech firm Nature’s Miracle Holding in a deal that values Agrify’s equity at roughly $6.3 million.
As the cannabis industry gears up for 4/20 – the ultimate celebration of marijuana for businesses and consumers – executives should consider how they can retain this high holiday retail rush.
Canada’s legal cannabis industry is not getting any excise-tax relief from the Liberal government’s 2024 budget.
MJBiz is looking for movers and shakers in the cannabis industry to share their knowledge as speakers at MJBizCon 2024.
Nancy Whiteman, the co-founder and CEO of Wana Brands cannabis edibles company, in May will relinquish the top post to marketing chief Joe Hodas.
The latest Congressional leadership crisis means the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is “unlikely” to take up marijuana banking reform, a GOP senator believes.
Predatory investors hijacked the cannabis social equity program in Arizona, where only three of the original 26 license winners still have a stake in their businesses, according to allegations filed in court and repeated in the state Legislature.
Missouri marijuana retailers set another monthly sales record in March with $124.7 million in adult-use and medical cannabis transactions.
A multiagency task force in California seized more than $53 million worth of illegal cannabis products in the first quarter of 2024.
Shareholders of Canadian cannabis company Canopy Growth Corp. have voted in favor of a new exchangeable share structure meant to enable Canopy’s planned entry into the American marijuana market via a U.S.-domiciled holding company, Canopy USA.
Canada’s Liberal government unveils its 2024 budget on Tuesday, and the country’s cannabis industry wants one thing above all: relief from a heavy excise-tax burden.
Vangst, a major cannabis industry staffing platform, acquired CannabizTemp in what is believed to be the first such move in the marijuana human resources sector.
There’s “no reason” for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to delay its long-awaited decision on moving marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3 of the Controlled Substances Act, the head of the Food and Drug Administration told a House committee.
The New Hampshire House passed another adult-use cannabis legalization bill, but getting it through the Senate has been a perennial challenge.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has signed into law House Bill 4121, extending the state’s moratorium on new marijuana business licenses.
Disgruntled California workers at Eaze Technologies and its cannabis delivery subsidiary, Stachs, reiterated plans to go on strike – just before the unofficial marijuana holiday of April 20 – for many of the reasons industry workers are unionizing nationwide.
Alabama medical marijuana licenses would be revoked and businesses forced to “start from scratch” and reapply for a fourth time under a bill that’s advanced out of a state Senate committee.
California has issued a mandatory recall for cannabis flower branded by celebrity boxer Mike Tyson, citing contamination by aspergillus mold.
Recreational marijuana sales in Ohio could begin in two months, far ahead of previous estimates as regulators move quickly to establish the newest adult-use market in the Midwest.
Motif Labs CEO Mario Naric hopes its new Rizzlers closed-loop vape system will repeat the success some of its other brands have achieved.
Top Senate Democrats circulated a letter Monday asking colleagues to sign on to an ambitious federal marijuana legalization push that also promises social justice reforms.
Cannabis industry lender Chicago Atlantic issued a $20 million loan to Massachusetts-based multistate operator Nova Farms.
Marijuana company Village Farms International is back in compliance with Nasdaq rules; Weedmaps parent company WM Technology is noncompliant.
Surrey, the second-biggest city in the Canadian province of British Columbia, will allow legal cannabis stores after unanimous Council approval.
Industry stakeholders looking for how federal regulation for hemp-derived cannabinoids could unfold might find a crystal ball in Texas.
A potential showdown between law enforcement and a Native American tribe is brewing in North Carolina, where a district attorney has vowed “to enforce state law” once the state’s first medical cannabis dispensary opens later this month.
Massachusetts-based marijuana multistate operator MariMed announced on Tuesday it closed a $5.3 million acquisition of Community Wellness & Compassionate Care Center, its second dispensary in Maryland.
Canadian cannabis and beverage alcohol company Tilray Brands has lowered its financial guidance, reducing expectations for investors in its third-quarter earnings announcement.
Sun Theory Holding Co., a Denver-based vertically integrated marijuana operator, acquired five of Terrapin Care Station’s retail locations in Colorado for an undisclosed sum.
Ontario’s cannabis retail regulator, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), fined Cannabis Xpress 200,000 Canadian dollars ($147,000) for allegedly violating the province’s anti-inducement law for cannabis retailers.
Publicly traded marijuana multistate operators exited regulated cannabis markets through late 2023, continuing a pattern fueled by increased capital costs, high taxes and the slow pace of federal reform.
Canadian marijuana grower and manufacturer Decibel Cannabis Co. has appointed Benjamin Sze as CEO once again.
A California auditor has released several recommendations for better marijuana business licensing processes and policies by local municipalities.
An analysis of smokable hemp products found that 93% of tested samples contain more than 0.3% THC, which is the federal legal limit as outlined in the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill.
The number of canceled cannabis business licenses has soared alongside the amount of “uncollectable” excise tax in Canada.