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What MJ Unpacked Reveals About Cannabis in 2026

From cultivation to retail, businesses are digging deep to tighten operations and increase margins as the only way to endure another grueling year in cannabis without federal support. A common sales pitch these days centers on cost-saving systems and operational efficiency. The industry has shifted from “how fast can we grow?” to “how do we […]

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The Third Exit Path for Cannabis Founders

For many cannabis founders, the exit problem is not finding the right buyer. It is that there are barely any buyers at all. The field is narrow, capital is tight, and the strategic buyers that do exist are rarely showing up with clean cash offers. More often, founders are being asked to accept low valuations, […]

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The Fight Against New York’s METRC Monopoly Heats Up

There is a growing fear among New York cannabis operators that the lawsuit challenging Metrc’s Retail ID program will “kill track and trace” and return the state to the chaos of inversion and inventory failures experienced last year. That fear is understandable. It is also wrong. Retail ID is not track-and-trace. Retail ID is a […]

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Why Most Cannabis COGS Would Fail an Audit — and How Operators Can Fix It

For cannabis operators, the cost of goods sold (COGS) is far more than an accounting line item.  It’s the most critical financial number in the entire business. Under IRC Section 280E, most ordinary business deductions are disallowed, making COGS the primary mechanism for reducing taxable income.  At the same time, COGS drives pricing decisions, product […]

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Busting the Top 10 Myths About ESOPs: Why Cannabis Business Owners Can’t Afford to Ignore Them

In cannabis, it sometimes feels like every financial conversation ends the same way: “If not for 280E, we’d be thriving.” That line gets repeated in boardrooms and investor decks across the country, and for good reason. Section 280E has choked margins, slowed growth, and kept great operators from building real wealth. What most people don’t […]

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How ESOPs Can Save Cannabis Businesses A Ton of Money While Doing Good

In cannabis, it sometimes feels like every financial conversation ends the same way: “If not for 280E, we’d be thriving.” That line gets repeated in boardrooms and investor decks across the country, and for good reason. Section 280E has choked margins, slowed growth, and kept great operators from building real wealth. What most people don’t […]

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Alternatives to Bankruptcy for Cannabis Companies: Part 1

The problems facing the cannabis industry arising from its ongoing status as a federally illegal enterprise are numerous and well documented: 280E tax burdens, limited access to banking, exclusion from capital markets, uneven access to federal intellectual property right protections and the inability to access the stream of interstate commerce. The recent woes faced by […]

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