by NCIA’s Packaging and Labeling Committee/ Next-Gen Sub-Committee Lisa Hansen, Plaid Cannabiz Marketing & Brian Smith, Satori Wellness What Is Next Gen, Anyway?! It’s a new year, a new decade and quite frankly—a new era of packaging in the cannabis industry. We are officially face-to-face with next gen packaging... Read more
Trulieve Cannabis, the predominant player in Florida’s medical marijuana industry, has experienced a huge drop-off in milligrams of CBD sold in Florida over the past eight weeks. The trend accelerated this week, according to data analysis from Marijuana Business Daily‘s Investor Intelligence analysts. Trulieve’s market share of CBD sales... Read more
As the U.S. hemp industry waits to see what happens next with the federal hemp production program, more state-run programs have decided to keep the status quo for another year. Less than a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture closed a public comment period on its hemp rules,... Read more
by Brian Chaplin, Chief Brand Officer at Medicine Box Not even a month into the new year, and some of the biggest players in the cannabis industry have already been hit with several crippling blows. While we’re thankfully a long way away from the federal raids of yore, we’re... Read more
Check out the first episode of NCIA’s new monthly video newsletter, NCIA Today! In this episode, we cover NCIA’s first Industry Socials and Trade Show of the year, Sen. Mike Crapo’s comments on cannabis legalization, and what NCIA’s Allied Associations Program is! Read more
by Madeline Grant, NCIA Government Relations Manager There has been a lot of cannabis action in the 116th Congress and that is not an accident — it’s time for cannabis policy reform! We’ve seen historical hearings, votes, and mark-ups take place with the help of our champions on Capitol... Read more
Colorado hemp grower and CBD manufacturer EcoGen Laboratories raised $40 million in a private placement, saying it will use the funds to consolidate operations and start producing white-label CBD products in a former steel plant in western Colorado. The company said it plans to consolidate operations and extraction in... Read more
(Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series on retailing trends in the hemp industry. To read the previous installment, click here.) Canada’s federal health regulator is reviewing the potential market for cannabis health products that would not require physician oversight, a review that attracted strong interest from hemp... Read more
Nevada’s capital city is facing a lawsuit from a hemp cultivator blocked from growing the crop on about 100 acres of city-owned property. Tahoe Hemp filed suit against Carson City last month, saying the municipality acted in bad faith when it blocked the company from growing hemp on 100... Read more
Two more top hemp states have decided to operate their 2020 hemp production programs under the rules of the 2014 Farm Bill. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture closed the public comment period last week on its interim final rule for hemp production, regulators in Montana and North Dakota said... Read more
