Examining the Growth of Infused Beverages in North America
After the extraordinary winter most of North America suffered through this year, the balmy weather of last May and June may feel like a...
The Industry’s Energy Problem
As legalization proliferates across the United States, the cannabis industry’s rapid growth is forcing a reckoning with its environmental impact and how to reduce...
10 Things Every Dispensary Needs for Success in 2023
Ask around, and you may hear 2023 is the most challenging year yet to operate a dispensary. With capital largely evaporating, licensed and illicit...
An Ounce of Prevention Can Stop Financial Distress
It’s a challenging time for cannabis businesses around the country. But for those of us who have been involved since the beginning, what else...
The New Strategies Driving Retail Design
The second half of 2022 was bruising for the cannabis industry, prompting changes in strategy for just about every company. Retailers of all varieties—from...
Just Open the Box Already
The cannabis industry is like Schrödinger’s cat: both legal and illegal, with its fate linked to an event that may or may not happen...
Designing the Future of Retail
We’ve all heard the adage “time is money,” but successful retailers understand space also is money. Cannabis operators need to leverage their space more...
Urbn Leaf Moves Uptown
Los Angeles’s famous Sunset Strip has a storied and often sordid history as the epicenter of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll in America....
Study Reveals Chemical Differences in Indoor and Sungrown Cannabis
When it comes to cannabis, most people assume the plant’s genetics are primarily responsible for an individual cultivar’s cannabinoid and terpene content. However, it...
6 Cannabis Retail Marketing Predictions for 2023
Cannabis marketing has reached a complicated point in history. The era of adult-use legalization is over a decade old, with more states coming online...
