Legal Affairs
Headset Settles Federal PPP Loan Claims
SEATTLE – Headset Inc. agreed to pay more than $1 ...
The Hemp Surge: A Growing Challenge to Regulated Cannabis
NEW YORK — The legal line between hemp and cannabis ...
Navigating Local Cannabis Regulations: A State-by-State Guide
NEW YORK — Cannabis regulation in the United States functions ...
Four Ways to Raise Capital in Cannabis. Only One Comes With a Wedding Registry.
By Peter Ingersoll, CEO of Safe Harbor Equity Inc., for HCN Media Group SAN DIEGO- Raising capital will humble you. After more than four decades in finance, I can tell you it usually happens about ...
Loud Spectrum Introduces Flower Derived Terpenes
SANTA ANA – Loud Spectrum, a terpene formulator, announced the launch of Flower Derived Terpenes (FDT). The first product, named Alive, is made only from Cannabis flower and extracted within an hour of harvest. The ...
Curaleaf Clears Competition Law Reviews for Aurora Bid
STAMFORD – Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has received every competition law clearance required for its proposed acquisition of Aurora Cannabis Inc. Germany and Canada were the only jurisdictions that required one. On October 20, Germany's Federal ...
Loud Spectrum Introduces Flower Derived Terpenes
SANTA ANA – Loud Spectrum, a terpene formulator, announced the launch of Flower Derived Terpenes (FDT). The first product, named Alive, is made only from Cannabis flower and extracted within an hour of harvest. The ...
Curaleaf Clears Competition Law Reviews for Aurora Bid
STAMFORD – Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has received every competition law clearance required for its proposed acquisition of Aurora Cannabis Inc. Germany and Canada were the only jurisdictions that required one. On October 20, Germany's Federal ...
Compass Completes FDA Application for COMP360
LONDON / JERSEY CITY – Compass Pathways announced it has completed its New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for COMP360, a synthetic psilocybin formulation, for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). If ...
Vireo Growth Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
MINNEAPOLIS – Vireo Growth Inc. reported third-quarter revenue of $253.7 million, up 177% from $91.7 million a year earlier. Acquisitions drove the increase. Cannabis sales reached $198.1 million, and an agricultural supply business the company ...
Four Ways to Raise Capital in Cannabis. Only One Comes With a Wedding Registry.
By Peter Ingersoll, CEO of Safe Harbor Equity Inc., for HCN Media Group SAN DIEGO- Raising capital will humble you. After more than four decades in finance, I can tell you it usually happens about ...
Loud Spectrum Introduces Flower Derived Terpenes
SANTA ANA – Loud Spectrum, a terpene formulator, announced the launch of Flower Derived Terpenes (FDT). The first product, named Alive, is made only from Cannabis flower and extracted within an hour of harvest. The ...
Curaleaf Clears Competition Law Reviews for Aurora Bid
STAMFORD – Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has received every competition law clearance required for its proposed acquisition of Aurora Cannabis Inc. Germany and Canada were the only jurisdictions that required one. On October 20, Germany's Federal ...
Big Alcohol. Big Tobacco. What About Big Marijuana?
By Mark Collins | HCN Opinion When Democratic Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico identified Big Alcohol and Big Tobacco as beneficiaries of restrictions on hemp-derived THC, he raised an important question: Who profits when ...
Week in Review: Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Highlights
LOS ANGELES – Federal regulators drew a firm line around medical Сannabis, a hostile bid for Aurora turned more personal, and Q3 2026 earnings showed which operators convert retail traffic into cash. Capital deployment remains ...
DEA Bars Dual-Purpose Dispensaries From Federal Medical Cannabis Registration
WASHINGTON – In April, followed by Trump administration's rescheduling order, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the DEA had granted federal registrations to more than 900 state-licensed medical Cannabis dispensaries in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, ...
Cannabis Deals Multiply and Shrink in Q3 2026, Viridian Finds
LOS ANGELES – The Viridian Cannabis Deal Tracker counted 74 transactions in the third quarter: 28 in M&A, 27 in equity and 19 in debt. That is the most in any quarter since early 2023 ...
AJNA Biosciences Files for DEA Authorization to Grow Cannabis Under FDA Drug Framework
LITTLETON – AJNA Biosciences, a botanical drug development company, applied to the DEA for registration as a bulk manufacturer of Schedule I controlled substances. The filing, made available for public inspection on 30 October and ...
Optimi Goes Down Under with New Australian Subsidiary
VANCOUVER / SYDNEY – Optimi Health Corp., a commercial-stage pharmaceutical developer and manufacturer of regulated psychedelic drug products, announced the establishment of Optimi Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary responsible for distribution and business ...
Cannabis Buyers Are Price-Sensitive, Now The Federal Data Proves It
LOS ANGELES – The study, published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, was conducted by researchers at the University of California San Diego and received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) ...
Argent BioPharma Licenses Proprietary Cannabis Genetics in Global Thai Phytomed Agreement
LONDON / PERTH – Argent BioPharma Ltd. has signed a decade-long exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Thai Phytomed International (TPI), covering four proprietary Cannabis genotypes developed within the Argent group over several years. Under the ...
Jushi Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
BOCA RATON – Jushi Holdings Inc. released its third-quarter 2026 financial results, reporting $70.5 million in revenue, a 7% YoY gain driven by record wholesale volume and retail growth across several key states, even as ...
Verano Reports Q3 2026 Financial Results
CHICAGO – Verano Holdings Corp. reported $212.4 million in third-quarter revenue, a 5% increase YoY. The figure came in modestly below analyst estimates of $216.4 million and trailed the $217.9 million posted last quarter, but ...
How to Survive MJBizCon: Parties, Meetings and Making It Worth the Trip
LAS VEGAS- An HCN guide to better connections, good parties and making the trip pay off long after Vegas Every year, sensible cannabis professionals travel to Las Vegas carrying three business objectives, two phone chargers ...
Could California Become Germany’s Next Recognizable Cannabis Origin?
LOS ANGELES- California’s products and ideas have been crossing the Atlantic for decades. Germans watch Hollywood films, listen to West Coast hip-hop, drink Californian wine and use technology developed in Silicon Valley. The cultural connection ...
Germany’s Medical Cannabis Market Is Becoming a Global Supply Opportunity
LOS ANGELES- Germany’s medical Cannabis market offers North American producers an opportunity that exists today: supplying prescription products through an established pharmaceutical channel. Its significance lies in the combination of rising imports, regulated distribution and ...
Curaleaf Refuses to Back Down
STAMFORD – One day after the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) dismissed Curaleaf's application to shut down Aurora Cannabis's at-the-market (ATM) share issuance program, Curaleaf Holdings pushed back with a firm statement, insisting the ruling changes ...
Cannabis Users Trust Dispensary Staff Over Doctors, Federal Study Finds
LOS ANGELES – People who use Cannabis trust dispensary staff more than healthcare providers or government agencies for information about the substance, according to a study published in the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. ...
New York Cannabis Tops $4 Billion in Retail Sales
NEW YORK – Less than four years after the state welcomed its first licensed adult-use customer, New York's regulated market has crossed a major cumulative sales threshold, placing it among the top three recreational Cannabis ...
SNDL Reports Q3 2026 Financial and Operational Results
EDMONTON – SNDL Inc. released its third-quarter 2026 results, reporting record quarterly free cash flow of CA$20.0 million, up 19.5% YoY, and a return to positive adjusted operating income of $5.2 million, compared with a ...
Week in Review: Cannabis & Psychedelics Industry Highlights
LOS ANGELES – The Cannabis and Psychedelics industries closed out the past fortnight with a full plate of international boardrooms debates, M&A combat, a federal rescheduling docket moving toward a recommended decision, ballot momentum heading ...
Alberta Regulator Sides with Aurora, Dismisses Curaleaf’s ATM Challenge
EDMONTON – The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) dismissed Curaleaf Holdings' application to halt Aurora Cannabis's at-the-market (ATM) share-sale program, delivering a regulatory setback to the American Cannabis company's hostile takeover campaign. The ruling confirmed that ...
Safe Harbor and Opifex Media Set Terms for a Shared Nasdaq Future
DENVER — SHF Holdings, Inc., which operates as Safe Harbor Financial, has signed a non-binding term sheet with Opifex Media Inc. to combine the two companies under one publicly traded parent. Opifex, a Beverly Hills-based ...
New Mexico Pushes to Open Medical Psilocybin Program
SANTA FE – When Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 219 into law in April 2025, New Mexico became the third U.S. state to authorize medical psilocybin, with a statutory deadline of December 31, ...
DEA Judge Admits GAO Report, Rejects Prohibitionists’ Attempt to Reopen Cannabis Rescheduling Hearings
WASHINGTON – Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek Julius admitted a Government Accountability Office report into the DEA's marijuana rescheduling record and turned down the other requests opponents had filed to slow the case. Opponents had ...
DEA Calls Cannabis Rehearing Bid a Prohibitionists’ “Fishing Expedition”
WASHINGTON – The Drug Enforcement Administration submitted a new brief, urging Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek C. Julius to reject a request to reopen the federal marijuana rescheduling hearing, calling the demand an "obvious fishing ...
November Midterms: Cannabis at the Ballot Box
LOS ANGELES – NuggMD conducted the survey, drawing on interviews with 654 Cannabis consumers across states with existing legal markets. Here’s what the numbers say: 78% of respondents surveyed stated that a candidate's position on ...
PROFILE: Jonathan Jacobsen: Building The Export Bridge To Europe
LOS ANGELES - Many cannabis businesses were created to grow more cannabis Jonathan Jacobsen is pursuing a more complicated objective: building the regulated infrastructure required to move medical cannabis between countries. After acquiring High Ground ...
