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The marijuana industry is quickly becoming big business. In 2019, analysts estimated that marijuana retail sales in the U.S. surpassed $13 billion. This explosive growth…

An era of consumer lawsuits alleging false advertising and unfair competition against producers of cannabis-derived products has begun. As the Food and Drug Administration, Federal…

This issue marks the six-year anniversary of Marijuana Venture. We started working on the magazine about a month after the first recreational sales in Colorado…

When the Zell family started their cannabis retail business in Alaska’s Matanuska Valley, they initially thought maybe a dozen or so people would come through…

On January 1, 2020, Illinois became the 11th state to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, more than 495,000 transactions…

Rules and regulations exist for the betterment of society. I know that sounds like naïve optimism, particularly in today’s day and age when many laws…

Like a lot of people across the country, Nate Haas likes to make a stop from time to time on his way home from work.…

Anyone who has worked through the mechanics of applying for a cannabis business license has been required to disclose to the applicable regulatory authorities the…

Cannabis entrepreneurs thinking they can avoid franchise laws by calling their licensing another name will suffer the same fate as “accidental franchisors.”