The Business of Cannabis

Trump Budget Proposes Ending State Medical Marijuana Protections

Marijuana Moment is a wire service assembled by Tom Angell, a marijuana legalization activist and journalist covering marijuana reform nationwide. The views expressed by Angell or Marijuana Moment are neither endorsed by the Globe nor do they reflect the Globe’s views...

CBD Products Are ‘Exploding’ In Pet Sector

Hemp-based CBD pet products will represent 3-5% of all hemp CBD sales, with conversion rates of 37%, according to a new report from Nielsen Holdings PLC and Headset, a provider of analytics service for the cannabis industry. The U.S. consumer packaged goods industry...

Hemp Industry Cleared To Do Business With Banks

The number of banks in the United States willing to lend to hemp producers can be counted on one hand. That is about to change. Federal and state bank regulators announced Tuesday that they were scrapping a burdensome requirement that banks said kept them away from...

Single Dose Of CBD May Treat Psychosis, Study Suggests

The results suggest that CBD could offer a treatment for the memory problems associated with psychosis, a common mental-health condition that affects 20 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. “Now not only do we know that...