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For years, cannabis operators have accepted labeling inefficiencies as an unavoidable cost of doing business. Yet, many facilities still rely on fragm...
The April 2026 Department of Justice rescheduling order landed with the weight of a decade of advocacy behind it. For an industry that has watched eve...
LeafLink’s Wholesale Cannabis Pricing Guide, drawing on over 400,000 SKUs and billions of dollars in transaction data across 18 U.S. markets throughou...
The Hemp Beverage Expo (HBE) heads into its second show this June in Austin, Texas, and the energy is full speed ahead — even with November 12th loomi...

SOCi’s 2026 Local Visibility Index analyzed more than 350,000 business locations across 2,751 brands and found a gap every dispensary operator should ...
Pre-rolls generated $4 billion in sales in 2025 and are projected to grow faster than any other top cannabis category, at a 10% compound annual growth...
Cannabis cultivation is, at its core, a controlled environment business, and air quality remains one of the most consistently underestimated variables...
Choosing between glass and plastic packaging for cannabis concentrates is a strategic decision with downstream consequences for product integrity, com...
Most cannabis operators have a banking problem. For many, that means limited access to financial services, forcing the business to operate largely in ...
Legalization has been framed as a turning point for cannabis safety, transparency, and adoption for years, but now, over a decade since recreational c...
As U.S. cannabis rescheduling moves forward and export opportunities to the European Union become available, a new certification tool to help producer...
The U.S. cannabis industry generated more than $30 billion in regulated sales in 2025, yet profitability has become harder to predict. According to a ...
Picture the moment a cannabis company’s compliance team gets copied on an email from a banking partner’s risk officer. The subject line says “Question...
As cannabis becomes a globally traded medical commodity, cGMP compliance is reshaping how it is grown, handled, and transported. For operators working...
Cannabis packaging decisions have downstream consequences for compliance, operations, customer perception, and margins. This article offers a practica...
Driven by innovation and convenience, pre-roll sales in 2025 not only had the strongest growth of any major category, topping $3.6 billion in sales an...
For years, the cannabis industry operated in an environment where expansion was the primary signal of success, and investors were excited to get invol...
As federal policymakers move toward restricting hemp-derived cannabinoid products, a new state-level effort in Colorado is taking the opposite approac...
As the U.S. hemp industry braces for potential federal disruption later this year, a new bipartisan bill aims to give states a way to maintain control...
In 2024, Colorado state officials announced a recall affecting 172 stores across the state. Batches of flower and pre-rolled joints from one grower ex...
