Flow Kana isn’t the only cannabis company forced to make cuts. In recent weeks, companies like Eaze and Weedmaps have also laid off part of their workforce. “It almost feels like an epidemic of companies of similar size going through similar processes,” Steinmetz said. The layoffs reflect challenges in California’s fledgling recreational cannabis... Read more
A portion of the August 2019 Department of Taxation list of Nevada marijuana licensees. The marijuana company that listed former state regulator Deonne Contine as a licensee says it had Contine removed a year ago as secretary of WSCC Inc., which does business as Sierra Well. State regulators admit... Read more
It’s not uncommon for cannabis businesses to end up the target of property crimes. Typically, that takes the form of retail shops being broken into and robbed. But a cannabis business owner in Denver, Colorado says his company was the target of something much different: arson. The Dab Space... Read more
Within two hours on a day following record snowfall in Michigan, a career fair seeking up to 100 employees for a proposed marijuana grow facility in Pontiac ran out of its 300 applications. A waiting list was created for the jobs that pay between $15 and $18 per hour with benefits... Read more
PRESS RELEASE Eastlake, Ohio (Nov. 13, 2019) ─ Ohio medical marijuana patients can now access more options with Wana Brands Sour Gummies. Already available in a vast majority of Ohio medical marijuana dispensaries, Wana Sour Gummies offer patients a wide range of ratios and classes, have always been vegan... Read more
One of the 17 states that has yet to legalize recreational or medicinal marijuana is the site of some of the most Drug Enforcement Administration raids in the country. Last year, DEA officials seized and destroyed 418,076 cannabis plants in Kentucky. But where Kentucky really stood out was the... Read more
At 12:01 p.m. on November 12, Massachusetts’ emergency ban on medical cannabis vaping products expired. But in its place, the state’s Cannabis Control Commission immediately instituted a quarantine of all medical marijuana vaping devices and products, with the exception of devices that vape flower. Officials with the Cannabis Control... Read more
After four decades of using strong prescription drugs to treat Crohn’s disease, a chronic digestive disorder, Patty developed an aggressive form of skin cancer. “It’s because my body has been suppressed for so long, it can’t fight it ,” the Wisconsin resident said. Patty, who has worked at her... Read more
Innovative Industrial Properties Acquires Pennsylvania Property and Enters Into Long-Term Lease with Green Thumb Industries (GTI) IIP Expands Portfolio to Over 2.9 Million Square Feet in 13 States SAN DIEGO, November 12, 2019–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (IIP), the first and only real estate company on the New York... Read more
Every state that’s legalized cannabis for adults 21-and-up has faced that moment or even series of moments that threatened to really derail or seriously stymie market development. California is at that crossroads and has been almost from the outset of the first issuances of cannabis licenses back in January 2018. California will, of course, eventually…
