The Business of Cannabis

Former FDA Regulator Predicts Cannabis Rescheduling This Year

A longtime attorney at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration who helped found the agency’s Marijuana Working Group in 2014, Howard Sklamberg is now involved in federal cannabis policy on behalf of multistate operator Columbia Care. Sklamberg recently spoke...

Proximity Key To Getting Cannabis Buyers To Legal Stores, Study

For marijuana retailers, it’s no secret: Customers like buying weed close to home, if they can. New research into Canada’s regulated cannabis market supports that intuition: Consumer proximity to government-regulated stores increases the odds that people will source...

Hemp On Par With Wood Capturing And Storing Greenhouse Gas

Hemp can store CO2 as efficiently as wood in raw materials for the construction industry, and should meet EU certification criteria for carbon credits, a new report from Germany suggests. The report found that carbon removal through hemp is in a range similar to that...