Virginia’s Governor Has The Power To Save Consumers’ Access To Hemp Products (Op-Ed)
“As written, the law would render the overwhelming majority of products currently on shelves illegal as of July 1. That includes gummies, tinctures, vapes, pre-rolls, beverages and topicals.” By Ivory Ellis, 757 Smokes A bill now on Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger’s (D) desk threatens to upend access to the popular hemp products that thousands of […]
Now Is The Time for Latinos In Cannabis To Flex Our Power (Op-Ed)
“Despite carrying the consequences of criminalization, and being key sustainers of the legal industry as workers and consumers, Latinos are underrepresented as business owners in the industry.” By Jason Ortiz and Maritza Perez Medina, Latino Cannabis Alliance One of the first reported deaths resulting from the Trump administration’s renewed immigration raids in 2025 was that […]
Too High To Thrive: Excessive Cannabis Taxes Are Undermining Legal Markets (Op-Ed)
“Higher taxes do not eliminate consumer demand. They simply change where consumers buy their cannabis.” By Rodney Holcombe, LeafLink In recent piece, The New York Times editorial board called for a federal tax on cannabis and urged states to raise their own taxes to “dollars per joint, not cents.” That argument assumes cannabis is lightly […]
Virginia’s Cannabis Sales Legalization Bill Gives An Unfair Head Start To Existing Big Businesses (Op-Ed)
“Catching a market in motion is fundamentally harder than entering one that has not started yet.” By Max Jackson, Cannabis Wise Guys Imagine a race track. Five cars are already on it—tuned, tested, crewed and running laps at two hundred miles an hour. They have been on this track for years. Now imagine telling a […]
The Cannabis Consumer Community Is Just As Bipartisan As The General Population, Polling Data Shows (Op-Ed)
“Cannabis consumers as a group do not have a political party preference that differs from the general electorate.” By Andrew Graham, NuggMD The persistent assumption that cannabis consumers are not sufficiently loyal to the Republican Party has always stood in the way of progress, to one degree or another, in the fight to end prohibition. […]
Marijuana And Hemp Leaders Have Found Agreement On Many Significant Policy Issues (Op-Ed)
“With marijuana and hemp leaders working together toward a shared vision of more effective federal policy, the path ahead is brighter for the entire cannabinoid marketplace.” By Adam Rosenberg, National Cannabis Industry Association and Eric Berlin, Dentons Last fall, we wrote that marijuana and hemp businesses were working together as a group informally called the […]
New Cannabis Group Will Help Ground Policy In Science And Patient Experience As Trump’s Rescheduling Move Advances (Op-Ed)
“Federal policy must reflect evidence and science, not dispelled myths and tired stereotypes.” By Sasha Kalcheff-Korn, National Compassionate Care Council Recent federal action initiating a review of cannabis scheduling and signaling interest in expanding cannabinoid research reflects a growing willingness to examine how federal policy aligns with emerging evidence and real-world patient experience—but it also […]
Trump’s Cannabis Rescheduling Move Alone Won’t Stabilize The Industry Without Insurance Reimbursement Reform (Op-Ed)
“A stable cannabis industry requires more than tax normalization. It requires integration into healthcare infrastructure that governs how therapeutic products are accessed, financed and sustained.” By Gennaro Luce and Matthew Myro Rothman, CannaLnx Momentum around federal cannabis reform has shifted. Following President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the rescheduling of cannabis, investors have interpreted the […]
Michigan’s Marijuana Tax Experiment Should Be An Urgent Warning To Other States (Op-Ed)
“Other states as well should learn from Michigan’s experience, rather than repeat the same economic misstep the next time they face a budget shortfall.” By Hirsh Jain, Verdant Strategies In an effort to raise short-term revenue, Michigan recently adopted a cannabis tax structure that is already proving economically counterproductive and strategically shortsighted. For years, Michigan […]
Congress Should Delay The Federal Hemp Ban And Instead Enact Regulations For THC And CBD Products (Op-Ed)
“Republicans, Democrats and independents alike understand that regulation is better than prohibition, and that good science takes time.” By Mike Simpson, Lovewell Farms via Rhode Island Current At a moment when Americans across the political spectrum say they want evidence-based policy, Congress is on the verge of repeating a familiar mistake: banning first and studying later. […]