Houston welcomes 1st medical cannabis store​ Did y’all know Texas has a medical cannabis program?  It’s extremely limited, but it exists. Texas’ Compassionate-Use Act was passed in 2015 for patients with intractable epilepsy. In 2019 and 2021, other conditions like cancer and PTSD were added to the list.  Texas patients can only access low-THC cannabis, which means medical…

Moldy corporate cannabis​ At this point, we’ve all heard mold stories in cannabis. Whether on the final product or in the facilities – mold has been a problem for a plethora of companies.  Oftentimes, corporate cannabis companies are being blamed. So large, public companies like Trulieve and Canopy Growth with a board of directors and all that corporate…

Health insurance providers sued for not covering medical cannabis​ in New Mexico In 2021, a bill was passed to eliminate cost-sharing for mental health prescriptions in New Mexico.  Now, Ultra Health is suing health insurers (including some big names like United Healthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield) for violating New Mexico state law because they don’t cover…

Jeremy’s post isn’t the first one I’ve seen discussing the awesome takeaways from The Cannabis Marketing Association’s recent event.  The Green Paper is heavily-focused on events and one thing we’ve heard is that cannabis events are stale. The same several speakers are always at the same events. The same conversations are happening. The same sponsors,…

It’s June 12th, 2022. Somehow, we are halfway through 2022.  It’s been a year and a half since President Biden took office and honestly y’all, the cannabis industry is struggling.   We are by no means failing, but we are struggling. Every cannabis report I’ve ever read starts off by happily citing our industry’s billion dollars in…

Interesting (and long overdue) developments coming out of D.C…. Washington, D.C. City Council unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday preventing employers from firing employees and refusing to hire applicants who test positive for THC.  The bill is called the Cannabis Employment Protections Amendment Act of 2022 and was first introduced by D.C. Councilmakers in February of 2021.  It’s come a long…