Exclusive Interview with Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (OTCQX: TCNNF) (CSE: TRUL) began with a team of 10 people building a company out of a former tomato packing plant in Quincy, Florida. In July 2022, CEO Kim Rivers spoke to New Cannabis Ventures about plans to hit... Read more
Cannabis sales in Arizona exceeded $1 billion dollars in 2022 as the state’s recreational marijuana market experienced strong growth in its second year of sales. Total weed sales came to $1.4 billion last year, according to data from the Arizona Department of Revenue, an amount roughly equal to the... Read more
Total Arizona marijuana sales in 2022 mirrored the total from 2021, the first year of the legal adult use market, but the paths that each year reached $1.4 billion in sales were strikingly different. In 2021, medical marijuana sales were the driving factor, accounting for nearly 55% — about $760... Read more
An estimated 113 million viewers watched Super Bowl LVII to see if the Philadelphia Eagles or Kansas City Chiefs would win this year (the second-most watched since Super Bowl XLIX in 2015). Among those viewers were countless cannabis consumers, but cannabis sales took a slight dip in comparison to... Read more
Legislation proposed in Arizona would provide millions of dollars in grant funding to expand research into psilocybin––the primary psychoactive component in magic mushrooms––as a potential treatment for certain mental health conditions. The bill, introduced by a Republican lawmaker and backed by Democrats, “would put $30 million in grants over... Read more
Drugs on demand, straight from a jail guard, were shut down by the sheriff at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix, Arizona. According to Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone, a detention officer was arrested for attempting to bring methamphetamine and fentanyl into the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix, Arizona.... Read more
There is a Grand Canyon-sized gulf between medical cannabis and recreational marijuana in Arizona. Sales of medical marijuana continue to decline, while adult-use pot sales are climbing. The latest figures to be released by the Arizona Department of Revenue found that taxable medical cannabis sales totaled $31.3 million for... Read more
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Arizona-based TFS Brands, aka The Flower Shop, began life as SKY Dispensaries in 2017 only to rebrand to its current name in 2019 following the promotion of Greta Brandt from General Counsel to her current role as President of the company. If that decision did not succeed, the company... Read more
More Arizonans with federal convictions for marijuana possession will benefit from the pardons recently announced by President Joseph Biden than past offenders from nearly every other state, according to a report from azcentral. An analysis from the United States Sentencing Commission found that more than 1,450 people from Arizona... Read more
