The Business of Cannabis

Cannabis Packaging Companies Scrutinized Over Mold Claims

Nov 12, 2025 | National

State regulators are scrutinizing cannabis packaging businesses over unverified product statements, targeting at least one company over claims that its bags prevented mold. The crackdown follows a wave of product recalls in at least seven states where...

US House Committee Blocks Vote On GOP Lawmaker’s Amendment To Stop Hemp Ban, While Senator Floats Regulatory Alternative

Nov 12, 2025 | National

As the House prepares to vote on a Senate-passed spending bill with provisions to ban consumable hemp products, one GOP representative’s final push to strike the prohibition language has failed. At the same time, a Democratic senator says Congress should take the...

US Senate Rejects Attempt To Save Hemp Industry From THC Ban In Spending Bill

Nov 12, 2025 | National

The US Senate rejected an amendment to a critical spending bill that would have removed language to ban hemp products containing THC. After the chamber cleared the appropriations minibus package for floor consideration on Sunday, senators on Monday took up the measure...

Shutdown Bill Aims At Outlawing Intoxicating Hemp While CBD Braces For Unintended Fallout

Nov 11, 2025 | Feature, National

As Congress appears headed to shut down the grimy business of intoxicating hemp any day now, the critical question going forward is how much the legitimate market for CBD tinctures, health aids and cosmetics will be affected. The shady, greedy producers of...

Virginia’s Newly Elected Governor Supports Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Sales

Nov 5, 2025 | National

Efforts to legalize adult-use marijuana sales in Virginia got a boost on Tuesday with the election of Abigail Spanberger as the state’s next governor. The Democrat supports the reform, unlike outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who twice vetoed measures to...

Cannabis Businesses Seek Supreme Court Review Of Federal Ban

Nov 5, 2025 | National

A group of cannabis interests challenging the federal marijuana ban are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 20-year-old precedent on cannabis policy. In a petition for a writ of certiorari filed Friday, a coalition of state-regulated marijuana business...