Dixie Brands reached a licensing deal with Arizona Beverage Co.
Published August 7, 2019
Denver-based Dixie...
How to cut costs and make your cannabis extraction operation more efficient
(This is the first installment in an ongoing series offering tips and advice for marijuana and hemp extraction companies.)
For cannabis extraction companies, becoming more efficient and more productive goes hand in hand with expansion and scaling up.
Marijuana extraction...
Q&A with CEO Greg Engel
While rival Canadian cannabis producers plowed massive amounts of capital into cultivation infrastructure, losing billions of dollars in the process, New Brunswick-based Organigram forged a different path.
Organigram – which trades on the Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange...
Colorado marijuana businesses provide THC products for MJ research
Two Colorado-based marijuana companies are teaming up with the University of Colorado Boulder to study the heath impacts of flower and infused edibles.
Native Roots, a Denver-headquartered medical and adult-use cannabis retail chain of 20 stories, will provide flower...
FDA discloses criminal probe into vaping health crisis, putting added scrutiny on cannabis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a criminal investigation into the vaping health crisis, bringing added scrutiny to the legal marijuana industry and potentially exposing companies to federal legal action.
“The industry should be worried,” said Washington, D.C.-based...
California’s provisional marijuana licensing crisis resurfaces
For the third time in less than four years, California lawmakers are revisiting the state’s marijuana licensing program, ostensibly to give businesses and regulators more time to get permits processed while allowing the industry to keep functioning without...
MedMen raises CA$20 million to bankroll marijuana expansion in Florida
Financially strapped MedMen Enterprises said it raised 20 million Canadian dollars ($16 million) at CA40 cents a unit to fund growth plans in Florida’s medical marijuana market.
The California-based multistate operator said that under the private placement, each unit...
White-label branding might be marijuana industry’s next hot trend
(This story appears in the November-December issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.)
The complexity and cost of obtaining cannabis licenses has many brands turning to white-label branding.
White labeling, a practice common among mainstream businesses, is when a product is produced...
Finding child-resistant marijuana packaging
Packaging molds like the ones created
by Pollen Gear can cost thousands of dollars
if they have to be remade. Courtesy Photo
It’s tricky to develop attractive cannabis packaging that will keep children from opening it while still enabling...
Experiential marketing creates a memory of a marijuana brand
Different areas of the Far Out Factory, put on by Slang Worldwide, engaged people attending the party in experiences such as the blackjack card game. (Photo by Margaret Jackson)
Whether it’s a cannabis-focused arts and music festival, a “garden...