Samoan Coconut Processors Chase Premium Margins Over Bulk Copra
Samoa's coconut sector has spent decades exporting value at the lowest possible point on the chain. Raw copra leaves the country cheap, gets refined elsewhere, and returns as branded oil worth
Cresco Labs Staffs Front-Line Roles as Dispensary Compliance Demands Grow
Cresco Labs, one of the larger vertically integrated multistate operators in the cannabis industry, is hiring Wellness Advisors for its Sunnyside dispensary network. The role sits at the point where
Harvest Labor Costs Strain Cannabis Cultivators Before Product Ever Sells
A finished harvest doesn't pay for itself. Trim, pack and processing crews expect wages on a fixed schedule, but the cash to cover that payroll often arrives weeks after the flower leaves the field.
Cannabis Retailers Face Their Own "Software Brain" Problem With Automation
Dispensary operators keep hearing the same pitch from software vendors: automate the budroom, automate the compliance logs, automate the reordering, and the business runs itself. That sounds tidy on
Two Cannabis Retailers Fund Ferndale Mural to Back LGBTQ+ Youth
Downtown Ferndale has a new piece of public art, and behind it sits a cannabis retail partnership worth watching for what it says about brand-building in a still-maturing adult-use market. JARS
Georgia Operator Opens Facility Doors to Push Stalled Medical Cannabis Bill
MACON-BIBB, Ga. - A decade after Georgia legalized medical cannabis, the program still runs on narrow rails. Only three licensed operators grow, manufacture, and distribute product statewide, and
Nevada City Council Moves Toward Loosening Cannabis Retail Rules
Nevada City is positioning itself as an outlier among small California municipalities on cannabis policy, and the direction is toward fewer restrictions rather than more. The City Council has landed
Older Consumers Emerge as Untapped Growth Engine for Cannabis Retailers
Michigan's cannabis industry has spent years drowning in its own supply. Prices have collapsed, margins have thinned to almost nothing, and operators keep circling the same conversation about
Pennsylvania Hemp Retailer Faces Federal Ban Threat by December
A federal deadline set for December has Pennsylvania hemp operators bracing for the possibility that the products lining their shelves could become illegal overnight. Congress has already moved to
Federal Hemp Rules Shift Again as Senate Delays Key Deadline
The federal redefinition of hemp is already law. What's still unsettled is exactly when it bites, and that distinction matters more than most coverage lets on. Signed in November 2025 as Section 781