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Massachusetts was one of the first East Coast states to legalize cannabis for adult use and companies like Community Growth Partners are setting the industry standard as they grow alongside the developing industry. With Community Growth Partners’ first entry into the space, the Rebelle retailer located in the Berkshires, the company is carving out its own corner of the industry through its community-first, woman-focused philosophy. In this Q&A with Founder & CEO Charlotte Hanna, we talk about her corporate background from before entering the space, how the company learns about and responds to consumer habits, plans for renovating historic Berkshires…

Lawmakers in the U.S. House stripped language to establish cannabis industry banking protections from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this week before voting to advance the bill to the Senate. The $768 billion defense bill’s cannabis banking language had been lifted from Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s (D) Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act. A bipartisan bill that has passed the House five times but has yet to be considered by the Senate, the SAFE Banking Act seeks to protect banks and other financial institutions that serve cannabis companies from federal money laundering charges. I’m disappointed #SAFEBanking is not…

A Missouri law enforcement group is urging voters to back the adult-use cannabis legalization question on the upcoming midterm ballot, KMOV reports. The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) LEAP is a non-profit group of criminal justice professionals, including police, prosecutors, and judges that aims to mobilize law enforcement in criminal justice reforms that promote public safety.  Retired Lt. Diane Goldstein, executive director of LEAP, said the organization has “watched as marijuana arrests and convictions taxed the resources of our local police departments and caused real harm to neighborhoods.”  “What people don’t see behind the scenes is that law enforcement has…

The majority of Nevada’s cannabis industry workers are white and male, according to a survey by the state Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB). The agency found that 52% of the 15,936 cannabis industry workers who completed the survey identified as white, with 17% identifying as Hispanic, and 12% identifying as Black. Fifty-five percent of respondents identified as male with 39% identifying as female. Survey responses came from all levels of the industry, including dispensary employees, cultivators, company owners, board members, and other executives. The CCB said that it received a near 100% response rate from industry executives defined as the owners,…

The payment processing giant Visa issued a warning this month against the practice of cannabis dispensaries using so-called “Cashless ATMs” to circumvent restrictions on cannabis payments. First reported by Marijuana Moment, Visa said in a December 2 memo that the company is “aware of a scheme where [point-of-sale] devices marketed as ‘Cashless ATMs’ are being deployed at merchant outlets,” in violation of Visa Rules. “Cashless ATMs are POS devices driven by payment applications that mimic standalone ATMs. However, no cash disbursements are made to cardholders. Instead, the devices are used for purchase transactions, which are miscoded as ATM cash disbursements.…

Find us in your favorite podcast app: Spotify SoundCloud iTunes Stitcher As cannabis becomes more and more ubiquitous in social circles and even in public spaces, it’s important for new cannabis products to collectively drive the industry’s innovation and acceptance by more mainstream audiences. MyHi is especially in tune with that fact as a company and has dedicated a significant portion of its launch and brand identity to centering the conversation about social and convenient cannabis use. In this episode of the Ganjapreneur.com Podcast, our host TG Branfalt connects with MyHi’s founder and CEO TJ Stouder to discuss the inspiration…

Fall is the season of flavor, and Taylor Swift fans are eating. Or are they smoking?  Swift released her 10th album, Midnights, on October 21. A moody, textured work, she spends it mostly looking inward, recalling lost loves, bad decisions, and the agony of change. With production spearheaded by Jack Antonoff, the album’s sonic quality is subdued, even solemn at times. In many ways, the album traces the deeply personal and internal monologues that result from a smoking sesh with oneself.  So it’s only fitting that Swift kicks off the whole album with a song title named after Lavender Haze,…

A survey by Real Estate Witch found that 71% of Americans believe cannabis legalization improves states’ economies and that while just over half – 52% – of respondents would consider buying a home next to an adult-use cannabis dispensary, 69% said they would buy a home within a mile of one. Seventy percent of those surveyed said they would pay fair market value or above for a house near cannabis-related entities, with 56% saying they would buy a home next door to a medical cannabis dispensary.  The survey of 1,000 Americans also found 37% of respondents most commonly referred to…

Despite the medical cannabis industry’s rapid development, medical professionals are still entering the workforce with minimal cannabis knowledge and most are woefully unprepared to handle cannabis-related questions from their patients. That was the starting point for Cansoom, which was founded by a medical professional, for medical professionals, to bridge the gap between the modern medical industry and the burgeoning cannabis movement. We recently interviewed Cansoom’s founder Lolita Korneagay about the company’s founding, building the curriculum for her educational programs, her inspiration to continue learning and teaching about the medicinal properties of cannabis, her advice — and new coaching course —…

A dispute about whether banks can pull mortgages from cannabis users is heading to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Western Standard reports. The dispute stems from a 2010 recall of a mortgage by Scotiabank from a homeowner with a federal license to cultivate cannabis. The bank had told the homeowner that it “does not allow marijuana in their communities” and that it “was very concerned about the environmental issues within residences where cannabis was grown” and that “growing marijuana at a mortgaged home was prohibited by bank policy,” the report says. Edward Lustig, an adjudicator with the Tribunal, wrote that…