The Colorado marijuana market hit a new benchmark – $10 billion in sales – since the state started selling licensed recreational cannabis in January 2014.
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Curaleaf enters European cannabis market with $286 million acquisition of Emmac Life Sciences
Curaleaf Holdings said Tuesday it signed a $286 million definitive agreement to acquire London-based medical marijuana company Emmac Life Sciences, giving the Massachusetts-based multistate operator a major foothold in the European cannabis market and …
Verano accused in lawsuit of illegal interstate marijuana trafficking
Illinois-based multistate operator Verano Holdings is accused in a lawsuit of illegally shuttling marijuana from its home state to Arkansas. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the allegations of illegal interstate marijuana shipments stem from cannabi…
Alaska cannabis grower, retailer face criminal charges in pesticide case
Alaska officials are pressing a criminal case against two associated cannabis businesses that are accused of falsifying business records, misusing pesticides, pesticide pollution and reckless endangerment. Ronald and Lacey Bass, owners of cultivator Ca…
Ontario Cannabis Store CEO: More stores needed in underserved markets
The chief executive of the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) said growing regulated recreational marijuana sales in Canada’s most-populous province depends on more brick-and-mortar stores opening in certain communities. OCS President and CEO Thomas Ha…
Harborside enters $5 million ‘strategic investment’ with CA marijuana firm
Harborside said Monday that it has thrown $5 million in investment capital behind Loudpack, another well-known California marijuana business. According to a news release, Oakland-based Harborside provided the funding for the “strategic investment…
Women’s History Month: Q&A with marijuana industry pioneer Greta Carter
“Everything I dreamt and hoped to have accomplished in this industry has come to fruition. I am truly living the dream.” That’s how marijuana-industry pioneer Greta Carter began a conversation with Marijuana Business Daily for an inte…
California judge rules shuttered marijuana testing lab can reopen
A California Superior Court judge ruled that a marijuana testing lab can reopen immediately after having to close in January because regulators revoked its license. Judge Frank Roesch wrote in his ruling late Thursday that the state Bureau of Cannabis …
One-third of Canadian cannabis users consumed more during pandemic
Slightly more than one-third of Canadians who use cannabis increased their consumption during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a new Statistics Canada report on pandemic-era alcohol and marijuana use. The report offers new insights into why Canadian c…
Most CA marijuana businesses have no right to due process, court filing asserts
California’s attorney general argued in a recent court filing that none of the state’s cannabis businesses operating on provisional licenses are entitled to due process under state law. The due-process situation arose when Hayward-based Har…