Convenience is key when it comes to selling consumer goods, and cannabis is no exception. If you are considering opening a cannabis delivery business or adding a cannabis delivery component to your existing business, there are plenty of hoops to jump through, but you may be making a valuable investment. Consumers across the U.S. are [...]
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Top Five Cannabis Compliance Tips For Retailers
Written by Katelin Edwards and Elisa Cruz. It’s not news to members of the cannabis industry that compliance is key. But between a global pandemic, the economic downturn associated with it, paying federal, state, and local taxes without federal tax deductions or tax credits, and conducting general business operations...where should cannabis retailers focus their cannabis [...]
Risky Business: Why is Cannabis Insurance so Hard to Get?
If you’re a person like me who is generally aware of… things, then you’ve probably heard about the particularly intense wildfire season we’re experiencing in the Western U.S. You may also be aware of the fact that the Western U.S. is home to a significant portion of the country’s cannabis industry. This is a bad [...]
Shifting Focus: From Social Distancing to Social Equity
From Physical Illness to Societal Ills This post was originally intended to be a follow-up to our previous post about the emergency regulations that were enacted due to the coronavirus epidemic. We were expecting these rules to expire, or at least be modified, after a few months...but here we are, three months later, and the [...]
Cannabis: Regulatory Compliance 101
Cannabis Regulatory Compliance in 2020 Staying on top of your state’s regulatory compliance is important for every licensed operator working in the cannabis industry; especially now, in the age of coronavirus when most states have layered even more stringent emergency regulations on the industry. Our regulatory affairs team recently put together a series of blogs [...]
Social Equity – or Lack Thereof – in the Cannabis Industry
Written by Katelin Edwards, Luke Ewing, & Watson Mulkey The murder of George Floyd has amplified and renewed conversations about race relations in the United States and abroad. While the cannabis industry has been discussing social equity since long before the current unrest, we have not been seeing the results we want. And in a [...]
Top 10 Cannabis Compliance Tips for Cultivators
There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown us all for a loop. During times like these, we are all just trying to survive and come out the other side intact. The current crisis has driven individuals and industries to innovate and be more agile. To conserve energy and increase efficiency. To simply stay [...]
The New Normal: Cannabis After Coronavirus
We’re living through stressful and confusing times. Everything is closed, the news is changing every hour, and we’re all stuck at home bored out of our minds. This era of uncertainty could lead to a new normal for cannabis after coronavirus. Luckily, most jurisdictions across the U.S. have allowed both medical and recreational dispensaries (and [...]
Social Distancing Sales: Delivery, Drive-thru, and Pickup
As you may have heard in the news, governments whose stay-at-home orders shuttered millions of businesses nationwide have largely exempted cannabis operators from suffering a similar fate. While some people have expressed skepticism, cannabis is an essential need for millions of patients, whether they have a card or have to rely on recreational/adult-use sources to [...]
Coronavirus, Essential Businesses, and the Cannabis Industry
Last updated 7/09/20 Are dispensaries considered essential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic? During the current coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic, many government agencies have implemented stay-at-home or “Shelter in Place” orders, and are only allowing essential businesses to stay open. As part of those orders, some initially categorized cannabis and dispensaries as non-essential, but quickly reversed [...]