compliance
Cannabis Labeling Workflows—Reinvented!
For years, cannabis operators have accepted labeling inefficiencies as an unavoidable cost of doing business. Yet, many facilities still rely on fragmented, manual workflows that require employees to export spreadsheets, copy cannabinoid results, and rekey intricate terpene data into static label templates. This traditional approach actively drains productivity, inflates labor costs, and introduces unnecessary opportunities […]
Why Workforce Risk is Real and What it Means
Every conversation about cannabis risk follows the same script: Regulatory uncertainty, 280E, capital access, and maybe interstate commerce, depending on the room. None of that is wrong, and operators dealing with those pressures daily don’t need me to tell them they’re real. But after more than a decade working inside this industry, watching companies scale, […]
CSQ Launches EU GMP Tool to Help Cannabis Businesses Break Into European Markets
As U.S. cannabis rescheduling moves forward and export opportunities to the European Union become available, a new certification tool to help producers prove their products meet EU standards and fight back against supply chain fraud is now available. CSQ (Cannabis Safety & Quality), the first ANAB-accredited cannabis and hemp safety and quality certification program, announced […]
Engineering Consistency: Inside the Push for GMP-Compliant Cannabis
As cannabis becomes a globally traded medical commodity, cGMP compliance is reshaping how it is grown, handled, and transported. For operators working with imported biomass, controlling contamination and ensuring consistency across supply chains has become a defining challenge. That challenge was a central focus at the International Cannabis Business Conference in Berlin, where a panel […]
Inconsistent Messaging Is a Compliance Risk. Full Stop.
Picture the moment a cannabis company’s compliance team gets copied on an email from a banking partner’s risk officer. The subject line says “Questions re: public materials.” Attached is a spreadsheet. On one side, language from the company’s Florida medical dispensary website. On the other, language from the California recreational site, the New Jersey acquisition […]
How to Evaluate Cannabis Packaging Suppliers Before You Commit
Cannabis packaging decisions have downstream consequences for compliance, operations, customer perception, and margins. This article offers a practical framework for evaluating packaging suppliers across five dimensions: compliance, product quality, operational fit, customization, and partnership reliability. It closes with a pre-commitment checklist that operators can use before signing any supplier agreement. Cannabis packaging is no longer […]
Colorado Pushes to Normalize THC Beverages in Bars as Federal Pressure Mounts
As federal policymakers move toward restricting hemp-derived cannabinoid products, a new state-level effort in Colorado is taking the opposite approach by moving to integrate low-dose THC beverages into mainstream hospitality. A coalition led by Colorado-based attorney Brian Vicente, partner at Vicente LLP, has formed the Colorado THC Beverage Coalition and introduced legislation that would allow […]
Operating in the Missouri Market with Curio Wellness
Missouri has quietly built one of the country’s more successful adult-use cannabis markets since launching recreational sales in 2023. Since legalization, the state has quickly grown into one of the largest cannabis markets in the Midwest, generating strong sales and supporting an expanding network of cultivators, processors, and dispensaries. Unlike many states that see medical […]
The Power of AI and How it Will Transform Cannabis Medicine
Biotechnology, cannabis medicine, and the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are beginning to converge. Hemant Kumar Bid, program director for the Master of Science in Biotechnology and the Medical Cannabis concentration at Morehouse School of Medicine, believes this convergence could dramatically accelerate the development of cannabis-based therapies. With AI, cannabis […]
Meet California’s New Director of Cannabis Control
California’s medical cannabis market began in 1996 when voters passed Proposition 215 (the Compassionate Use Act), making it the first state to legalize cannabis for medical use. Twenty-two years later, Proposition 64 ushered in adult-use sales, which commenced in January 2018. Initially, three separate agencies handled different aspects of the industry: The Bureau of Cannabis […]