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Cannabist Integrates Design and Technology in New Ways

Columbia Care's nationwide dispensary chain gets a retail refresh. In today’s patchy market, developing a national cannabis retail brand with staying power is an unenviable...
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Josephine & Billie’s: Honoring the Past While Pursuing Social Equity

National media hype surrounding a new dispensary opening typically is reserved only for when cannabis plants a big green flag somewhere audacious — like...
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Cannabis Trade Show Strategies

After a year-and-a-half break while the world reeled and readjusted to the COVID-19 pandemic, events came roaring back in the second half of 2021....
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Superette’s Retro Bodegas are Stylishly Avant-Garde

A 2019 Harvard Business Review article titled “Why Constraints are Good for Innovation” investigated the positive influence restrictions have on creative thinking and problem-solving....
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Pure Options Brings the Top Shelf to Mid-Michigan

Of all the states to watch in the United States cannabis market right now, few are as exciting as Michigan. The third-largest market by...
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Cannabis Employment Market Outlook 2022

The cannabis employment market outlook for 2022 is a mixed bag. Although the industry is creating tens of thousands of new jobs annually, a...
22 Cannabis Leaders to Watch in 2022

22 Cannabis Leaders Who Will Shape the Industry in 2022

Make no mistake: 2022 will be a pivotal year in cannabis. We are (cautiously) emerging from the pandemic as a stronger industry. The chaotic past...
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MSOs Target Cannabis Product Brands in Bid for Retail Dominance

Just a decade or so into North America’s adult-use cannabis experiment, we have a strong sense of where the biggest companies (multistate operators, or...
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TheRealCannaBus: Giving ‘Marketing Vehicle’ a New Spin

The term “marketing vehicle” typically refers to a platform or tactic. In the case of Enlighten’s TheRealCannaBus, the phrase applies to an actual vehicle:...
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G&D Chillers Transformed Extraction with Brewing Technology

As cannabis emerged from the shadows into the warm light of legalization, standards improved dramatically across the industry. The transformation was helped, in no...

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