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Spring 2022 Buyers’ Guide: New Product Roundup

New cannabis products are coming into the market at an incredible clip, and customers are embracing the diversity on shelves. Standards of manufacturing, cultivation,...
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Why International Expansion Should Be on Your 2022 to-Do List

With cannabis legalization spreading across the country like a slow-burning brushfire, it’s easy for existing businesses to become hyper-focused on domestic opportunities. But the...
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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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Should Your Dispensary Care about THCa & CBDa?

Anyone who works in cannabis retail has heard of THC and CBD – two of the most well-known cannabinoids in the market – but...
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The Cannabis Industry’s Massive Potential for 2022

It’s 2022 and legal cannabis is set to appear on a variety of state ballots once again, inching its way closer and closer to...
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How to Integrate Cannabis Delivery into Your Retail Business Model

Cannabis is fully legalized in eighteen states and illegal in only four. With the continuing legalization and decriminalization of cannabis across the country, the...
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Planning a Social Consumption Lounge Is No Easy Task

As medical and recreational cannabis legalization continues to sweep across the United States, stakeholders are realizing profit can be made by providing a safe...
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A Closer Look at Visual Merchandising Genius

The art and science of product display can exert a powerful influence on the bottom line. In an increasingly legal industry, cannabis retail operators have...
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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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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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