The Business of Cannabis

Florida Company Has Hemp Plan To Save State’s Troubled Citrus Orchards

Sep 6, 2022 | National

Farming hemp could help to overcome the devastating effect years of pesticide spraying has brought to Florida’s declining citrus industry, according to a Tarpon Springs-based company that is developing a strategy based on processing of the plant’s stalks. Growing hemp...

Is It Bad To Smoke Weed Every Day?

Sep 6, 2022 | National

What are, if any, the negative effects of regular marijuana consumption? Well, according to a comprehensive review published Wednesday in the journal Addiction, cannabis use can lead to small or to moderate acute cognitive impairments...

WEDNESDAY: CRA Education Session: Best Practices from the Enforcement Division

Sep 6, 2022 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

Please join the Cannabis Regulatory Agency Field Operations – Investigations Section of the CRA’s Enforcement Division Sept. 7 at 10 am for a zoom presentation of helpful resources available to licensees. This includes best practices such as making site visits more...

Marijuana Companies Lay Off Hundreds, Retrench Amid Economic Woes

Sep 6, 2022 | National

While business around the world shuttered as COVID-19 spread, the marijuana industry was deemed “essential” in nearly 30 states and stood to gain from the pandemic. But more than two years later, amid rising inflation and fears of a recession, North American cannabis...

John Fetterman’s Campaign Says He’ll Press Biden To Finally Decriminalize Marijuana 

Sep 6, 2022 | National

 Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for US Senate this year, will pressure Biden on “the need to finally decriminalize marijuana,” according to a campaign spokesman Joe Calvello. In a lengthier statement released Monday afternoon,...