Dispensary Culture Rewards Discipline the Way Old-School Retail Once Did
There's an old expression that still holds up in regulated cannabis retail: act like you've been there before and you know you're coming back. It applies just as well behind the counter of a
Lab Automation Standards Carry Lessons for Cannabis Testing Compliance
Potency testing, pesticide screening, microbial analysis - the entire compliance backbone of the cannabis supply chain runs through laboratories that look nothing like the image most consumers have
Jane Austen's Novels Return to Screens Amid Renewed Cultural Interest
Jane Austen died nearly 210 years ago. Yet this fall and winter, two of her most enduring novels arrive in new screen adaptations: "Sense and Sensibility," starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé
Michigan Dispensary Operator Credits Survival to Operational Discipline
A Michigan cannabis operator's path from sales lead to general manager offers a useful case study in what actually keeps a license solvent in a crowded, low-margin market. The operator, now running
Multi-State Dispensary Operators Confront Clashing Compliance Systems
A dispensary chain operating in three states can end up running three different compliance realities at once. One license reports to Metrc, another to BioTrack, and each system has its own rules for
Dispensary Inventory Mismatches Reveal Deeper Cannabis Tech Stack Problems
Three systems, three different inventory counts, one closing shift that won't end on time. It's a familiar scene in dispensary back offices: the point-of-sale says one number, the state's
Georgia Cannabis Operator Opens Doors to Push Stalled Medical Bill
MACON-BIBB, Ga. - A decade after Georgia legalized medical cannabis, the program remains narrow, tightly capped, and politically fragile. That tension played out this week in Macon, where one of the
Nevada City Advances Plan to Ease Cannabis Retail Rules
Nevada City is quietly positioning itself as an outlier among small California municipalities on cannabis policy, and operators watching the Sierra foothills market should take note. The city council
Older Consumers Emerge as Untapped Growth Engine for Cannabis Retailers
Michigan's cannabis market has spent years drowning in its own supply. Wholesale prices have collapsed, margins have thinned to almost nothing, and operators have been left arguing over who gets to
Pennsylvania Hemp Retailers Brace for Federal Crackdown on THC Products
A federal deadline in December could reshape a Pennsylvania hemp industry worth an estimated billion dollars a year, as Congress weighs tighter restrictions or an outright ban on hemp-derived