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Jazz Pharmaceuticals: The Medical Cannabis Insider Nearing $1B Milestone
DUBLIN – Jazz Pharmaceuticals reported a 20% jump in Q3 ...
Michigan Cannabis Trade Group Challenges New 24% Wholesale Tax in Court
LANSING – Yesterday, hours after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer put her ...
NY Cannabis Market Posts Record August Sales, OCM Reports
NEW YORK – New York dispensaries rang up $214.4 million ...
Cannabis Earnings Outlook Dims as Q2 2025 Looms, Latest Analysis
LOS ANGELES – As the Cannabis industry braces for Q2 2025 earnings releases in early August, a sobering picture emerges from Viridian Capital Advisors’ Chart of the Week. Ten of twelve tracked companies are projected ...
Cash, Crime, and Cannabis: Attorneys General Push Congress on SAFER Banking Act
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In a rare show of bipartisan unity, attorneys general from 32 states and U.S. territories issued a pointed appeal to Congress on Thursday: pass the SAFER Banking Act of 2025 — and finally bring ...
Cresco Labs Exits California Cannabis Market in Bold Strategic Pivot
LOS ANGELES – Cresco Labs Inc. (OTCQX: CRLBF), a multistate cannabis operator, announced its withdrawal from California, the world’s largest cannabis market. This move aligns with the company's broader strategic restructuring aimed at stabilizing its ...
Italy Enacts Security Decree Targeting Protests, Squatting, and Cannabis Industry
LOS ANGELES— Italy's Senate has passed a comprehensive security decree introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing coalition, intensifying penalties for public demonstrations, unauthorized property occupations, and the commercial sale of certain cannabis products. The ...
Czech Republic Advances Cannabis Decriminalization
LOS ANGELES— The Czech Republic's Chamber of Deputies has approved a significant amendment to the nation's criminal code, decriminalizing the possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use. The measure permits adults to grow up ...
Ascend Wellness Secures $50 Million Through Private Placement of Senior Secured Notes
LOS ANGELES- Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis operator, has completed a $50 million private placement of its 12.75% senior secured notes due 2029. The notes, issued at 97.5% of face value, ...
Alphabet Soup: Common Acronyms in Cannabis and Why You Need to Know Them
LOS ANGELES- Running a cannabis business means speaking more than the language of cultivation and branding — it means speaking compliance, with all its acronyms. You’ve likely seen a wall of them — ADA, OSHA, ...
Single Psilocybin Dose Shows Promise in Easing OCD Symptoms, Study Finds
LOS ANGELES – In a pioneering study, researchers from the University of Hertfordshire and Imperial College have uncovered the potential of psilocybin to alleviate symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Published in Comprehensive Psychiatry on July ...
Glass House Raid Sparks Industry Fears and Rival Tensions
LOS ANGELES – Highly Capitalized Network-HCN is closely monitoring the unfolding developments following the July 10, 2025, when federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stormed Glass House ...
Cannabis Rescheduling Hits Pause as DEA Shifts Gears
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The federal cannabis rescheduling saga, already a slow-burning drama, took a sharp turn this week as Chief Administrative Law Judge John J. Mulrooney announced his retirement, effective August 1, 2025. The exit, ...
Global Cannabis Market Report 2022 to 2027
Dublin - The Global Cannabis Market is estimated to be USD 25.74 Bn in 2022 and is expected to reach USD 87.17 Bn by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 27.63% Market Dynamics Market dynamics ...
Akerna Corp. Announces Intent to Effect Reverse Stock Split
DENVER - Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN), an enterprise software company and developer of the most comprehensive technology infrastructure, ecosystem, and compliance engine powering the global cannabis industry, today announced that it will effect a 20-for-1 reverse ...
Tilray Brands Acquires Montauk Brewing Company
NEW YORK–Tilray Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ | TSX: TLRY), today announced the acquisition of Montauk Brewing Company. Montauk Brewing is well-known for its beloved product portfolio, premium price point, and distribution across over 6,400 points of ...
Powering Possibilities With Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
CALGARY, AB, Nov. 2022. Sean "Diddy" Combs announced today that he has agreed to purchase the planned divestiture of assets in New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts from Cresco Labs Inc. and Columbia Care Inc. This ...
Dutchie Founders Ross & Zach Lipson Leave Dutchie
BEND, Oregon–According to a press release, Ross and Zach Lipson, who co-founded the privately held Oregon company, have resigned from their positions of leadership, and the board of directors has selected a new chief executive ...
Medical Cannabis Market Size to Hit USD 33,210.21 Million by 2027 at 18.14% CAGR
New York - Medical Cannabis Market Trends and Insights By Product Type (Solid, Dissolvable/Powders, Oil & Ointment, Creams), Derivative (Cannabidiol, Tetrahydrocannabinol), Route of Administration (Inhalation, Oral, Topical), Application (Pain Management, Neurological Health Management, Mental Health ...
Innovation and technology, pillars of success for PuraVerde Cannabis
What are some of the factors that can help predict if a cannabis company will be successful long term? This is a very hard question to answer nowadays, considering that the US is heading to ...
Akerna Flash Report: Halloween Weekend Cannabis Sales Total $249.6 Million
DENVER - Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN), an enterprise software company and the developer of one of the comprehensive technology infrastructures, ecosystems, and compliance engines powering the global cannabis industry, announced that US cannabis shoppers spent a ...
NIHC Urges FDA To Approve Hemp Seed for Animal Feed
WASHINGTON, Nov, 2022 The National Industrial Hemp Council of America (NIHC) President and CEO Patrick Atagi sent a letter today to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf urging approval of hemp seed as an animal feed ingredient. The letter ...
Industry Disruption One Lipid At A Time? Meet Impact Naturals
It doesn't come very often the opportunity to completely revolutionize and disrupt not one, not two, but at least three industries at the same time, with a simple yet efficacious technology developed by an A ...
Global Cannabis Market Size Expected To Reach $489 Billion By 2027 At A CAGR Of 24.6%
PALM BEACH, Fla. - The legal cannabis business is expected to generate billions of dollars as Investor confidence has grown as more countries legalize cannabis and use rises. According to Emergen Research, a recent study, ...
Seizures of Contraband and Unauthorized Items at the Regional Reception Centre
SAINTE-ANNE-DES-PLAINES, QC - Between October 28 and 30, 2022, as a result of the vigilance of staff members, contraband and unauthorized items were seized at the Regional Reception Centre, a multi-level security federal institution. The ...
Charlotte’s Web Enters Strategic Alliance with Tilray for Manufacturing and Distribution in Canada
DENVER and LEAMINGTON - (TSX: CWEB) (OTCQX: CWBHF) Charlotte's Web Holdings, Inc., the market leader in cannabidiol hemp extract wellness products, and Tilray Brands, Inc. (Nasdaq: TLRY) (TSX: TLRY), Canadian cannabis consumer packaged goods company, ...
PuraVerde: Maximizing efficiency in Cannabis
For anyone in cannabis, it is very well known that this is one of the most volatile, rapidly evolving industries in America, particularly for investors and operators. The regulatory landscape and the fact that ...
SAFE Banking Act Could Transform the Cannabis Industry as Demand Continues to Climb
PALM BEACH, Fla. - FinancialNewsMedia.com News Commentary - The remaining months of the lame-duck Congress could be shaping up to be the most wonderful time of the year for the U.S. marijuana industry, although insiders ...
Wonderland: Psychedelic conferences. Presented by Microdose
The psychedelic industry is heating up. Studies on the efficacy of compounds like psilocybin, DMT, and ketamine on a variety of illnesses and chronic mental health conditions continue to ramp up. Start-ups and established biomedical ...
Gage Cannabis Announces Fourth Social Equity Grant Recipient
DETROIT - Gage Cannabis, a subsidiary of TerrAscend Corp. and a high-quality cannabis brand and operator in Michigan, today announced its fourth social equity grant recipient, Midwest CannaNurses. MCN is a Detroit-based minority-owned holistic health ...
Can we use CBD to treat ASD symptoms?
It is known that Cannabidiol (CBD) and THC/CBD formulations are now being studied and used to better manage Autism symptoms. Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental condition most commonly diagnosed during infancy, ...
Does The Employee Retention Tax Credit Enable Cannabis Companies to Receive Tax Relief?
SAN DIEGO– Cannabis companies were deemed ‘’essential services’’ in the COVID-19 pandemic. But that didn't translate into access to the wealth of government grants that were made available to non-cannabis companies. Restrictions imposed by Section ...
The Parent Company Provides Strategic Corporate Update
SAN JOSE, Calif. - TPCO Holding Corp. or The Parent Company (NEO: GRAM) (OTCQX: GRAMF), a consumer-focused California cannabis company, today announced that it has elected to outsource certain aspects of its cultivation and manufacturing ...
