Slotting fees come to Michigan, Ascend’s exec team reorganizes after CEO arrest
Slotting fees enter Michigan’s market Slotting fees are becoming increasingly popular in cannabis, and Michigan is the latest state to join the trend. Slotting fees are sometimes called a shelving fee or slotting allowance. It’s a normal practice in traditional retail. Brands pay retailers for shelf space – or a premium spot on the shelf. …
Read MoreHow the illicit market thrives in opt-out towns
I’m a big believer in freedom. Personal liberty, state freedoms, national liberty: the whole shebang. That’s why, at one point in my career, I thought “opt-out towns” were just exercising their freedoms prohibiting cannabis businesses from existing in their jurisdictions, as many take the resident’s requests into consideration before banning cannabis businesses. But, it goes…
Read MoreNearly 500,000 cannabis jobs – but some markets are lacking.
Leafly’s annual jobs report is one that I am genuinely excited to read every year. The information is always mind blowing, like the fact that there are more cannabis industry professionals in the U.S. than firefighters??? Considering this cannabis professional needed four firefighters to rescue my kitten from my dashboard on Friday… I feel immediately…
Read MoreFemale cannabis operators have a harder time finding financing than men
Some of you (a lot of you) heard about what happened to me at Benzinga last week (somehow it was only last week). Basically – I was sexually harassed by a man in a pretty extreme way, about 30 minutes after hearing that the prior night’s party got “handsy after 10.” It just reiterated the…
Read MoreHow does formal education fit into cannabis?
More and more colleges are introducing cannabis into their curriculum. And from what I’ve seen so far: most of them are actually doing a pretty great job. I’ve seen a lot of people who are actually involved with the cannabis industry become part of the faculty who teaches these courses. At St. Louis University, one…
Read MoreOur 38 U.S. cannabis industries, the future of cannabis drinks
Our 38 U.S. cannabis industries TLDR: We don’t have one American cannabis industry. We have 38. I mean – what the heck. This concept is so freaking simple, I’m almost angry we aren’t talking about it more. The American cannabis industry, as a collective, has several identical problems: federal restrictions, banking challenges, lack of capital,…
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