Finance & Acquisitions

The cannabis industry’s biggest financial challenge isn’t banking access alone. It’s fragmentation. Operators juggle separate solutions for payroll, lending, insurance, and payments, leading to repetitive work, high fees, and compliance headaches. A unified, purpose-built financial infrastructure could eliminate duplicative workflows, automate compliance, improve access to capital, and give operators room to grow. Here’s how that vision could look.

SEATTLE - Jones Soda Co., a craft beverage company, sold its cannabis beverage business, including all related cannabis-specific assets under the Mary Jones brand, to MJ...

EDMONTON, Canada – Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NASDAQ: ACB) issued a formal denial Wednesday regarding widely circulated reports claiming the company planned to acquire New...

PHOENIX – Fourteen months after its parent company was forced into a liquidation receivership, a $3.5-million, all-cash acquisition will raise iconic counterculture magazine High...

While forty-seven states and the District of Columbia allow the use of medical marijuana and twenty-four states and the district have okayed recreational use,...

With limited access to banking, burdensome tax policies, capital scarcity, and payment terms that don’t always fit the needs of operators, the cannabis industry...

Nearly every election over the past decade has changed the landscape for the cannabis industry, and 2024’s was no exception. Whether a second Trump...

It’s an unfortunate fact that today we live in an age of rampant mistrust. Thanks to social media and digital communication, misinformation is easy...

When it first hit my desk several years ago, the idea of “cannabis banking” was much different from what the industry knows today. At...

Successful cannabis businesses are strategic, savvy, and clever. They have to be, don’t they? With harsh regulations like Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 280E,...