A “series of cascading failures” was responsible for Dutchie’s e-commerce platform outage that impacted marijuana retailers on 4/20, the company admitted. As a make-good, Dutchie CEO Tim Barash promised to pay out retailers that use the Oregon-based cannabis tech platform “an amount equivalent to our estimate of your lost profits” during the Thursday interruptions. ADVERTISEMENT […]
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The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) is officially backing the decriminalization of all drugs and paraphernalia, earning the praise of drug reform and harm reduction advocates. Members of APhA’s House of Delegates voted to adopted the revised policy late last month, becoming one of the nation’s largest medical associations to endorse broad decriminalization. “APhA supports decriminalization […]
The Nasdaq stock exchange has warned another marijuana company that it could be delisted if it doesn’t comply with the rules. Agrify Corp., a Massachusetts-based cannabis cultivation and extraction solutions company, received a notice of noncompliance from Nasdaq because the company hasn’t filed its 10-K form with its full-year financial results to the U.S. Securities […]
Medical cannabis dispensaries in Georgia are expected to open within weeks, nearly eight years after lawmakers first approved an MMJ program. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, medical marijuana retailers could open as early as late May. ADVERTISEMENT Georgia is among 40 states and the District of Columbia with a medical market program. More than 26,000 […]
Calgary, Alberta-based SNDL reported a net loss of 372.4 million Canadian dollars ($275 million) for 2022, up substantially over 2021’s CA$226.8 million, due partly to asset impairments in its cannabis retail division. ADVERTISEMENT SNDL, which operates separate cannabis and alcohol retail channels, as well as marijuana production, said noncash inventory and asset impairments amounted to […]
The top North Carolina House lawmaker says that medical marijuana legalization has “a better chance of passing this year than in any time in the past,” and he expects a Senate-passed reform bill to be taken up by his chamber’s Republican caucus within the next month. While the GOP-controlled House has previously blocked medical cannabis […]
I wanted to drop a line today on an interesting piece of cannabis legislation moving through the Oregon legislative session. The bill at issue is omnibus SB 353 (most recent mark-up here). This is a very different SB 353 than its placeholder from back in January when I published our annual Legislative Forecast and Report. […]
Produce and marijuana company Village Farms International has been warned by the Nasdaq stock exchange about its low share price. The company’s Nasdaq-listed shares (VFF) have closed below $1 since March 7. ADVERTISEMENT Village Farms has until Oct. 17 to become compliant with Nasdaq’s $1 minimum bid price requirement, the Delta, British Columbia-based company said […]
Dispensary workers in Illinois are fed up with what they say are low wages and unfair practices committed by a major dispensary chain. Members of Teamsters Local 777 members at three RISE Dispensaries in Chicagoland, a subsidiary of Green Thumb Industries, walked off the job on April 19 at 4:20 p.m. CT to launch an […]
It’s a well-known fact that using cannabis often leads to the “munchies,” prompting consumers to eat more and crave tasty, high-calorie foods. Now, a new study published in the journal Current Biology has found that cannabinoids can give worms the munchies, too — specifically, nematodes (C. elegans). “Cannabinoids make nematodes hungrier for their favored foods […]