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The Cannabis Branding Battle Ahead - Cannabis News
“Will people look for a brand of cannabis? Or will people look for a particular dispensary? Or a particular device? At the moment, many consumers are still learning how to approach the market, so things are very in flux."
Canadian budtenders in training: a peek inside cannabis customer service courses - Cannabis News
Vancouver-based company preparing dispensary staff to sell within the new legal framework.
Nevada reports a whopping 110% of projected sales from marijuana - Cannabis News
New numbers from Nevada’s Department of Taxation show the Silver State has made a jaw-dropping 110% of its expected revenue from marijuana sales in 10 months.
California is on the verge of creating a first-of-its-kind safety net for marijuana retailers to deposit cash gleaned from legal pot sales.
Another major beermaker is looking at ways to enter the marijuana business.
Like the rest of California, the hospitality industry in the state has moved slowly and tentatively to embrace the use of cannabis on a widespread basis.
After cannabis is legalized throughout Canada later this year, Canadians are expected to increase their consumption of the drug by up to 35 percent and spend as much as $7 billion on legal and illegal sales in 2019.
The medical marijuana dispensary that opened inside a former T-shirt factory in Bellmawr three years ago has moved into a modern new space across the street and is now the largest retail purveyor of cannabis on the East Coast.
Nevada is skating past its first-year goals for recreational marijuana revenue.
Jobs are growing in the cannabis sector and the so are the businesses offering them.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Scott Stern says the perception of marijuana in our culture is changing, and the mainstream opportunities are too hard to pass up.
A collective of Canadian organizations will present an open letter to the provincial and federal justice ministers to sound the alarm on regulations that would stifle the country’s craft cannabis industry.
Retail sales of medical and recreational cannabis in the United States are expected to hit $8 billion-$10 billion this year – a nearly 50% increase from 2017 – and rise as high as $22 billion by 2022.
Dispensaries are selling more low THC products and strains than ever before.
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones sent a letter last week to the state’s insurers urging them to offer insurance products for the legal cannabis industry.
The U.S. legal cannabis industry is on track to hit $25 billion by 2025, according to the latest forecast from cannabis analytics firm New Frontier Data.
The conference is part pharmaceutical trade show and part pow-wow for patient advocates and the industry’s legal advocates, as well.
"When a celebrity who doesn't fit the stereotype [of a pot smoker] gets into promoting cannabis, it expands the conceptual footprint that cannabis has in the minds of current and potential consumers."
“Branding of cannabis will be more important than ever. Up till now providers and growers have relied on logos and packaging, which are only the beginning in this category."
