Member Blog: The Power Of Numbers
by Kary Radestock, Hippo Premium Packaging This month, the cannabis industry gathers in San Jose for the NCIA’s 6th Annual Cannabis Business Summit & Expo. It is projected that nearly 10,000 people will attend.  Think about that number for a minute. Ten thousand. Just a handful of years ago,... Read more

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MJ HR: Protect Your Employees & Your Business with Actionable Tips in the Era of #metoo
There is little doubt that today’s cannabis industry offers career and entrepreneurial opportunities for women in ways surpassing those of other commercial enterprises.  Just look at the number of women executives in today’s canna businesses. According to recent statistics, that number hovers around 27 percent, while women executives make... Read more
CBD-Based Products: What Marketers Should Know in Today’s Uncertain Regulatory Landscape
By Richard Fama and Kristin Keehan The passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, commonly known as the “Farm Bill”, removed hemp and all of its cannabinoids, including CBD, from the Controlled Substances Act.However, excitement over the passage of this legislation was quickly tempered by the Food and... Read more
Cannabis Law and Business: Extracting Cash From Cannabis Trash
Yet, despite irrationally exuberant investment in cannabis and industrial hemp growing, processing and sale, massive unrealized early stage funding opportunity exists for tackling environmental issues including organic and hazardous waste collection, processing and disposal. Other than death and taxes, life’s only certainty is waste. Yet, despite irrationally exuberant investment... Read more
Online Youth Access to Cannabis – Imminent Danger Ahead
One of these unseen yet paramount dangers for a cannabis brand is ineffective online youth safety efforts. In this era of social media and messaging apps, do you know that in California, companies cannot communicate with people under 21 in any way? Similarly, most U.S. states and Canada implemented... Read more
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