Hemp Drink Makers Brace for a Federal Deadline That Could End Them
The hemp-derived THC beverage category just closed out its best sales year on record, with the U.S. market valued at roughly $1.4 billion. That success now sits beside a federal deadline that could
Green Thumb Expands Florida Footprint While Margin Pressure Builds
Green Thumb Industries has opened RISE Dispensary Cape Coral, its 25th retail location in Florida and more than 120th store across its national footprint. The store will serve registered medical
Federal Hemp THC Ban Deadline Pushes Industry Toward a Cliff
A one-month reprieve is not a fix. The federal ban on intoxicating hemp products, now set to take effect Dec. 11 instead of Nov. 12, has given operators across a multibillion-dollar supply chain a
Dispensaries Turn to Real-Time Inventory to Close Compliance Gaps
A mismatched stock count sounds like a back-office nuisance. In a licensed cannabis dispensary, it's a compliance exposure, a customer complaint, and a staffing drain rolled into one. Real-time
Dispensaries Turn to ID Scanning as States Demand Verified Sales
Cannabis regulators are no longer satisfied with a staffer eyeballing a driver's license and waving a customer through. The new standard is documentation: every transaction tied to a verified
Georgia Operator Opens Facility Doors to Push Stalled Cannabis Bill
MACON-BIBB, Ga. - A decade after Georgia legalized medical cannabis, the program remains narrower than backers wanted, and this year's expansion bills died in committee again. Fine Fettle, one of
Two Cannabis Retailers Fund Ferndale Mural, Pair Marketing With Donation Drive
Downtown Ferndale, Michigan, has a new 40-by-25-foot mural at 258 W. Nine Mile Rd., and the ribbon-cutting behind it says as much about cannabis retail marketing strategy as it does about public art.
Nevada City Advances Plan to Loosen Cannabis Retail Rules
Nevada City is inching toward a distinction few small municipalities claim: a local government actively rewriting its cannabis code to reduce friction for licensed operators rather than add to it.
Older Consumers Emerge as Untapped Growth Segment for Cannabis Retailers
Michigan's cannabis market has a supply problem that everyone in the industry can recite from memory: too much flower, too many licenses, and wholesale prices that have collapsed under their own
Federal Hemp Redefinition Puts Retailers on a Moving Deadline
The federal law that redefines hemp is already on the books, signed in November 2025, and it is not going away regardless of what happens next in Congress. What remains genuinely unresolved is the