Only 53% of New Yorkers support the newly legal recreational legalization. According to recent polls, the remaining 47% do not want adult-use cannabis. This has made experts question the probability of having a thriving cannabis market when almost half the population is not interested.
The cannabis industry’s biggest holiday is just over a month away, and it is time for you to start planning now if you want to make the most of it. In previous years, many dispensary POS systems have had a chronic reputation of crashing on 420, as they are not well-equipped to handle the traffic and transactions on this big day. With covid restrictions eased and life getting back to normal, you can expect April 20, 2022, to be the biggest 420 so far, and your cannabis retail operations must be ready to capitalize on the industry's most important business day. If your dispensary POS system crashed on 420 last year, then that is indeed a big red flag, and it is probably time to switch. In this blog post, we highlight five ways through which you can evaluate if your cannabis technology provider will have your back on 420 or not.
Mitch McConnell sounds convinced that the SAFE Banking Act is not the right call for now. According to the Senate Minority Leader, the cannabis banking measure is basically going to promote irresponsible consumption of weed among adult Americans. In his words, the bill will only help Americans get stoked on pot.
On Thursday, February 10, Cyril Ramaphosa (President of South Africa) announced that the cannabis industry is a significant part of the country's economic plan. His administration plans to open up the domestic cannabis industry to draw in more investors and create thousands of jobs for South Africans. The president disclosed this after the joint sitting of the federation's National Assembly and National Council of Provinces in Cape Town.
As cannabis professionals and entrepreneurs know, it’s not easy to train new hires within small, disparate regulatory markets. A budtender, grower, cannabis insurer, or cannabis marketing expert will interact with […]
Compliance is a top challenge in the cannabis industry for a reason. Seemingly unattainable due to ever-changing laws and regulations, compliance with a bevy...
DENVER – Schwazze, (OTCQX: SHWZ) (“Schwazze” or the “Company”), announced today that it has closed the transaction to acquire the assets of Brow 2, LLC, located in Denver, Colorado. The planned transaction includes a 37,000 […]
I’ve spent considerable time explaining the law regarding religious use of psychedelics on the Psychedelics Law Blog lately. A lot of that same law applies equally to cannabis. Naturally, I want to answer a similar question here: are cannabis churches legal? The answer is that they are basically “legal” in the same sense that cannabis