On Tuesday, February 18, NCIA’s Board of Directors met in Boston in advance of NCIA’s Northeast Cannabis Business Conference. During the meeting, new board officers were voted upon and instated into their roles for the current term. NCIA is pleased to announce the following board officers: Chair:Khurshid Khoja, Greenbridge... Read more
by Gary Cohen, CEO of Cova When it comes to opening a successful marijuana dispensary or cannabis retail store, the importance of building a strong, trustworthy team simply cannot be understated. Depending on the rules of your market, you may even be required to have certain positions filled before... Read more
by Angela Lucas, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Sterling Compliance, LLCMember of NCIA’s Banking & Financial Services Committee During a recent webinar, we polled the audience on their current positions on offering financial services – traditional financial services – to direct marijuana-related businesses (MRBs). The results, as you might imagine,... Read more
By Joe Sullivan, Technical Director at Cultivation Energy Optimization The California Statewide Utility Codes and Standards Program is considering the addition of energy efficiency standards to its Title 24, Part 6 Building Code for Controlled Environment Horticulture (CEH) facilities. Currently, there are no existing energy efficiency standards in Title... Read more
by Michelle Rutter Friberg, Deputy Director of Government Relations Photo By CannabisCamera.com While you may not have seen or heard much news recently about the SAFE Banking Act (H.R. 2215, S. 1152), NCIA has been hard at work behind the scenes gathering intel, lobbying offices, and educating lawmakers and... Read more
by Jennifer Whetzel, Ladyjane Branding It can be easy to forget the beginnings of the cannabis industry. The stigma we had to fight. The laws we had to change. The pounding anxiety stemming from societal pressure and legal threats. But here we are in 2020, leading a nearly $10... Read more
Joseph Hopkins, with his wife Chelsea, owns and operates The Greener Side, a dispensary in Eugene, OR. As some of the original entrepreneurs to open a dispensary in the state of Oregon, their story of being raided by federal authorities shows how resilient one needs to be in the... Read more
by Christina Casile, Owner of Design 710 As the legalization of cannabis spreads rapidly throughout the United States and across the globe, new medical and adult-use dispensaries are opening just about every day. The progression of architecture and design within dispensaries has expanded just as quickly as the legalization... Read more
By Sean Donahoe, Founder and CEO, Sungrown Developments Inc.Member of NCIA’s State Regulations Committee In Northern California’s legendary cannabis growing region of Mendocino, the elected county sheriff was recently a competitor at a homebrew festival, jovially pouring samples of his “Pretty Sour Powerful Sider” (jokingly referring to the “Public... Read more
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
