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Why California Cannabis Businesses Remain at Risk After the Schedule III Order
On April 22, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order placing state-licensed medical marijuana into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. The cannabis industry declared it a turning point. In certain respects, it is. But turning points are not endpoints. And for California cannabis retailers who operate in the most complex, most […]
Recriminalizing Cannabis Is a Spectacular Idea, If You Enjoy Spectacular Failures
Tyler Cowen published a piece in The Free Press recently asking whether we should recriminalize marijuana. He landed, sensibly, against it. The comment section of his blog filled up with the usual range: suburban homeowners insisting legalization ruined New York City, economists arguing about social norms, at least one guy who seems to think the […]
The Last Prescription: Why the Dying Should Have Access to Any Relief They Choose
There’s a Pennsylvania House bill making its way through the state legislature right now, and the fact that it exists at all should embarrass us. The bill, passed with bipartisan support, would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana for pain management even while hospitalized. That’s the story. That’s the bill. And somewhere in […]
What Makes a Healthcare-Ready Cannabinoid Ingredient?
For much of the cannabinoid supply market, the model has been simple: make the molecule, test the batch, sell the material. If the product meets basic specifications, passes third-party testing, and can be produced at a competitive price, it is considered ready for market. That model has supported much of the consumer cannabinoid industry, where […]
You Aren’t Making a Profit Because Your Ordering Process is Jacked
Over the last several years, we have spent a lot of time studying how cannabis retailers make purchasing decisions. Not just which products they buy, or how much they buy, but the entire sequence of events that begins once a buyer decides inventory needs to be ordered. That sequence matters more than most operators realize. […]
Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Tied To Dementia In Surprising New Study
What if one of the most controversial anti-cannabis warnings of the last few decades turned out to be completely wrong? For far too long, cannabis opponents relied on the same fear-mongering tactics; they spread exaggerations and false narratives about weed, claiming that it made people lazy, dumb, and forgetful. They said it destroyed motivation, caused […]
The THC Breathalyzer Hype Machine: Why This Technology Still Doesn’t Solve the Problem
Every few years, like clockwork, a new cannabis breathalyzer story cycles through the news. The headline is always some variation of “breakthrough” or “game-changer” or “the device police have been waiting for.” The funding is usually federal. The technology is always described as promising. And buried somewhere in paragraph twelve, the researchers quietly acknowledge that […]
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 […]
From Ditch Weed to Dank: The Lost World of 1977 Cannabis and Why It Still Matters
Flip through the High Times Top 40 from 1977 and the first thing you notice is the trim job. Or rather, the complete absence of one. Stems tangled through everything. Leaves pressed flat against seeds. The whole arrangement looks less like a curated cannabis product and more like something a field mouse dragged into the […]
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, […]