The Business of Cannabis

Minnesota: Study Finds Teen Cannabis Use At Record Low

Cannabis use among Minnesota teenagers has dropped significantly over the past decade, falling from 13% to 5% between 2013 and 2025, according to new research from the University of Minnesota Medical School. The study, published this week in Social Science...

Pennsylvania: Fetterman Urges Congress To End Federal Marijuana Ban

PA Senator John Fetterman and over a dozen of his colleagues in the upper chamber have re-upped their calls to end the federal ban of marijuana. Last week, Fetterman's office sent out a press release announcing his support for the reintroduction of the...

Could Hemp Become A State-By-State Market?

If the federal ban on intoxicating hemp products takes effect this November, could individual states create hemp markets similar to the marijuana programs that have operated for decades? That question was posed to panelists during the “State of Cannabevs”...

Despite Michigan’s New 24% Wholesale Marijuana Tax, Prices Keep Dropping

During budget negotiations last year, Michigan’s elected officials stunned the state’s seven-year-old marijuana industry with a new 24% wholesale tax. Despite the new tax, the average price of flower fell to a record low in June, while THC vape products...

Steep Hill Michigan Achieves ISO 17025:2017 Accreditation

 Steep Hill has announced in a press release that the company's licensee partner, Steep Hill Michigan, a Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) licensed medical and adult-use/recreational cannabis safety compliance testing facility, has earned ISO/IEC 17025:2017...

Surprising Side Effects of Marijuana After Age 50

Although marijuana has been typically associated with younger adults, that is a stereotype according to the National Library of Medicine. People over 50 are using the drug more often now. "As an older population grows in the United States that has a tolerant attitude...

Cannabis legalization Remains Stalled on Capitol Hill

Marijuana is still not federally legalized despite more than half of U.S. states passing decriminalization laws. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress continue to push legislation that would make decriminalizing cannabis the law of the land. Nearly every House...