There’s been a spate of recent speculation about the role drones might play in future cannabis deliveries. The issue resides precariously at the intersection of modern technology, ever-evolving and ever-confusing legislation, and a cannabis industry booming in all directions. Plus, there’s no denying the fact that drones filling the skies with Purple Punch and Sour…
Meg HartleyFebruary 20, 2020 A budtender prepares marijuana for a customer at MedMen, a legal cannabis shop in West Hollywood, CA. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) On January 1st, 2018, recreational cannabis became legal in the state of California, after over two decades of medical-only legalization. Over the next few months, some dispensaries would go from having…
The canna-beverage boom hasn’t happened yet, but with major beverage conglomerates betting big on infused drinks, Canadian consumers should expect to see the serious launch of a variety of THC- and CBD-infused soft drinks, juices, teas, and beer-and-wine clones begin soon and continue for the foreseeable future. With multiple billion-dollar licensed parties about to launch…
Alberta’s cannabis retailers learned last Friday that as of Monday, February 10, they would now be allowed to sell cannabis vape-pens, cartridges, and other vape products. The Albertan cannabis industry and some consumers cried foul when Alberta’s UCP government announced in late December they were delaying the release of vape pens while the province conducted…
Data from Leafly’s 2020 Cannabis Jobs Count indicates that legal cannabis sales in California contracted 18% year-over-year to $2.03 billion in 2019. That took a toll on cannabis employment in the Golden State. From Jan. 2019 to Jan. 2020, about 8,600 previously legal cannabis jobs in California became illegal cannabis jobs or disappeared entirely. That…
ow many jobs are there in the legal marijuana industry? Leafly’s annual Cannabis Jobs Report found 243,700 full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs supported by legal cannabis as of January 2020. That’s a 15% year-over-year increase. Over the past 12 months the expanding industry has created 33,700 new jobs nationwide, making legal marijuana the fastest-growing industry in America. This…
As staff at Oshawa’s Tokyo Smoke cannabis store closed up on Saturday night, February 1, they were confronted by two men wearing Halloween masks and holding guns. They emptied the tills and escaped in a waiting car. Meanwhile, in Edmonton, four cannabis stores have been robbed since December, and those robberies have also involved firearms.…
NEHC invested in mechanical harvesting equipment to scale to 200 acres (Courtesy of Northeast Hemp) This article is brought to you by Northeast Hemp Commodities, farming, harvesting, and processing CBD and CBG rich hemp. Having grown up in Vermont farm country, and spending more than a decade as dairy farmers, Tylor Highter and Sam Berthiaume…
Ben AdlinFebruary 5, 2020 CO2 from Denver Beer Co. helped grow this Bubba Kush from The Clinic. (Courtesy of Lauren Mims, The Clinic) Can the belches of fermenting beer shrink the cannabis industry’s carbon footprint? That’s the goal of a pioneering new program out of Colorado that seeks to capture breweries’ excess CO2 and use…
To the great relief of producers across Canada, farm-gate sales are coming to Ontario this spring—but it’s going to cost LPs. Due to provincial legislation demanding producers sell all their product to the Ontario Cannabis Store alone, the OCS will require producers to “sell” them cannabis, and then “buy” it back at an increased rate.…
One block east of Toronto’s Pape subway station, situated on Greektown’s famous Danforth Avenue, you’ll land at the city’s easternmost cannabis retail store (to-date), Canvas Cannabis. Canvas opened doors to customers in mid-December 2019, becoming the sixth legal store to open in Toronto proper. It’s the first cannabis store east of Yonge St., and the…
The Associated PressJanuary 28, 2020 In this June 8, 2019, file photo, two women smoke cannabis vape pens at a party in Los Angeles. California officials announced Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, that marijuana vape cartridges seized in illegal shops in Los Angeles contained potentially dangerous additives, including a thickening agent blamed for a national outbreak…
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