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Data, outreach strategies, and market intelligence for cannabis B2B professionals.
The cannabis pre-roll category grew 10% while flower fell, but 3,242 brands split the gains and one takes $1 of every $12. Who actually wins the shelf in 2026.
Read more →Oklahoma cannabis license enforcement has halved the state's licensed businesses since 2024 and cut them by three quarters since 2021. Here is who is left.
Read more →Dispensary openings, closures, and ownership changes in August 2026 across CO, NY, MI, IL, CA, and MA, and why 32 Colorado stores changing hands matters.
Read more →California let retailers split adult-use and medicinal licenses so the medical side can register with the DEA. The rule expires December 2. What changes.
Read more →Roughly $6 billion came due this year. The big MSOs refinanced past it at 10.5% to 12.5%. What cannabis debt maturity 2026 pricing costs their vendors.
Read more →California's provisional licenses ended January 1 and the state shed 154 more in Q1. Why a failed California cannabis license renewal never reads as a closure.
Read more →The Senate moved the hemp THC ban to Dec 11. The House returns with its Freedom Caucus chair fighting to strip it. What the federal hemp ban means for Q4.
Read more →Oregon's 10mg edible cap died in March after industry lobbying. Cannabis potency caps arrived anyway, through a federal container rule and the low-dose shelf.
Read more →Briefs closed August 17 and the DEA argued its own case for Schedule III. What the cannabis rescheduling recommendation decides, and the clock it runs on.
Read more →Target sells THC drinks in 300+ stores. In November most of that stock stops being hemp. Cannabis beverage dispensary shelf space is about to be the only shelf.
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