NORML Says Federal Prohibition Shouldn’t Make Marijuana Industry Contracts Unenforceable
A leading marijuana consumer advocacy organization is urging a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that cannabis industry contracts are not enforceable as long as federal prohibition remains in effect. Last month, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a $31.8 million jury award that Michigan marijuana cultivation […]
Most Pre-Rolls Suck. Josh Kesselman Thinks He Found the Fix, and He Wants the Industry to Copy Him.
Three people who judge cannabis for a living were asked separately what’s wrong with the pre-roll aisle. None knew what the others had said. They landed in almost exactly the same place. Then one of them built a fix and published it so his competitors could steal it. When’s the last time you smoked a […]
North Carolina’s $3 Billion Hemp Industry Braces For Impact Of Scheduled Federal THC Product Ban
“Regulation is what we need. Prohibition is just hilarious regression.” By Trevon Spencer, NC Newsline Chris Karazin started Carolindica with his brother and a friend in 2019, making homemade CBD products in a kitchen while working other jobs to pay the bills. “I didn’t even get a paycheck until three years ago,” Karazin said. Seven […]
The Latino Community Is The Invisible Backbone Of The Cannabis Industry (Op-Ed)
“Continuing down the path of aggressive and over-punitive immigration policies poses a direct threat to the future of this industry.” By Ishaq Ali, Latino Cannabis Alliance Behind the sleek tech-adjacent branding and modern marketing of today’s cannabis industry lies a far older, unvarnished truth: cannabis is, at its heart, an agricultural product and Latinos are […]
Federal Changes Will Put Hemp Industry Operators Out Of Business, Oregon Retailers And Suppliers Say
“The CBD products that people are expecting to be available to give to their dogs for arthritis or to give to their parents because they’re aging and have aches…they’re not going to have access to them anymore.” By Mia Maldonado, Oregon Capital Chronicle Pet tinctures and topicals are the most popular products sold at Oregon […]
Are You Sure You’re Not Committing a Crime? The Supreme Court Ruling That Put Spain’s CBD Flower Industry on Edge and United the Entire Sector
Rafael Fernández de Noreña opened one of Spain’s first CBD shops in 2018. Eight years later, his company is closed and his case has become a precedent that prosecutors are already citing against other flower retailers. What Supreme Court ruling 301/2026 does and does not say, and how the industry organized to respond. “The company […]
Texas GOP Senate Candidate Ken Paxton Took More Than Half A Million Dollars In Alcohol Industry Donations While Opposing Cannabis Reform
Texas’s attorney general—who is also the Republican nominee in a hard-fought race for a U.S. Senate seat in November—has accepted more than $500,000 in political donations from the alcohol industry while using the power of his office to crack down on cannabis, according to a review of campaign finance records. As attorney general, Ken Paxton […]
Michigan Marijuana Industry Group Endorses GOP Governor Candidate Who Pledged To Cut New Wholesale Tax
A trade association that represents marijuana businesses in Michigan is endorsing the Republican candidate in the state’s gubernatorial election in November, calling him “the clear choice” due to his support for repealing or significantly rolling back a recently enacted tax hike on the industry. “John James is the clear choice for the cannabis industry,” Michigan […]
Convenience Store Industry Says Congress Should Regulate Hemp THC Products Instead Of Banning Them
Advocates for convenience stores are celebrating a recently enacted delay in the effective date of a federal ban on hemp THC products, saying the move provides an opportunity to create regulations as an alternative to prohibition. Convenience stores, they say, are an ideal place to continue to sell hemp products under any new rules that […]
Missouri Officials Defend Hemp Product Ban From Industry Lawsuit In Federal Court
Plaintiffs argue in the lawsuit that the result is “a single product is simultaneously legal ‘hemp’ and illegal ‘marijuana.’” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent A federal judge is being asked to decide whether Missouri’s new law banning intoxicating hemp products is clear enough to enforce in November or so contradictory that a constitutional challenge to […]