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  • Rebooting Cannabis In California

    Jul 6, 2020, 5:52 pm By Sean Hocking
    The Santa Barbara County Grand Jury issued its 2019-2020 Final Report on June 30, 2020. The last section of this Report is devoted to the … Read More...
  • Smart People – Bad Decisions !

    Jun 24, 2020, 12:57 am By Sean Hocking
    Why is California’s cannabis industry in a state of chaos 2+ years after adult-use sales of cannabis were legalized?  Why did California fail so badly … Read More...
  • Harbourside’s New Lawyers

    Jun 9, 2020, 1:25 am By Sean Hocking
    Harborside has new tax lawyers.  Harborside’s new tax lawyers have appealed the DECISION of the United States Tax Court entered October 19, 2019, that determined … Read More...
  • New Publication: Understanding Social Equality By Chris Nani

    Jun 5, 2020, 10:29 pm By Sean Hocking
    Here’s the preface…. Chris Nani writes Social equity programs, a recent innovation of the cannabis industry, are programs that seek to remediate and help individuals, … Read More...
  • On the Burner: In-Depth Interview with Derek Du Chesne, President of Exactus Hemp

    Jun 4, 2020, 8:48 pm By Heather Allman
    During his first foray into the the cannabinoid  industry, Du Chesne found it difficult to get a reliable supplier and manufacturer of CBD which is … Read More...
  • Salvaging Equity Programs

    May 30, 2020, 9:35 pm By Sean Hocking
    Salvaging Equity Programs – this is our fourth article relating to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the cannabis industry.  This will not be … Read More...
  • CLAB Meet the Press: Cannabis and Media

    May 30, 2020, 8:34 pm By Heather Allman
    The issues with cannabis and traditional media are not new. Buying ads, using social media, and other marketing avenues are closed. Paid media continues to … Read More...
  • High Times Admits SEC Filing is Wrong: Stormy Simon off the Board

    May 27, 2020, 9:10 pm By Teri Buhl
    High Times, a cannabis media company turned, hopefully, dispensary company, has announced in an SEC filing that some how they did not report that Stormy … Read More...
  • Grow Healthy Blooms in Florida

    May 26, 2020, 9:20 pm By Heather Allman
    10 Questions with Hannah Lewis, Senior Director of Operations, GrowHealthy in Florida In April, in the midst of the current COVID-19 chaos, GrowHealthy bloomed under … Read More...
  • Australia Guest Post: CBD May Be Available Behind The Counter By 2021

    May 20, 2020, 12:13 am By Sean Hocking
    Tom Brown of honahlee  reports….Recently, the Australian Department of Health announced a proposal to down schedule low-dose CBD to a Schedule 3 drug. This change … Read More...
  • Cannabis Tax Managament

    May 15, 2020, 11:46 pm By Sean Hocking
    This article is the third of four articles that were prompted by the COVID-19 induced depression’s acceleration of the collapse of the cannabis industry. Our … Read More...
  • Canada’s Cannabis Talent Help List Launched

    May 13, 2020, 8:16 pm By Sean Hocking
    According to reports up to 30% of cannabis employees have lost their job during COVID-19 in Canada. We’d suggest at least 50% of these would … Read More...
  • 280E – Not A Problem !

    May 10, 2020, 9:45 pm By Sean Hocking
      We have published a number of articles over the past two years that explained how the impact of taxes on the cannabis industry could … Read More...
  • Cannabis California & Covid-19

    May 6, 2020, 5:26 pm By Sean Hocking
    This is the first of four articles we have been writing while sheltering-in-place. This first article summarizes our views on the impact of the COVID-19 … Read More...
  • States Deem Medical Marijuana Essential Industry Amidst COVID-19 Emergency

    Mar 31, 2020, 2:01 am By Sean Hocking
    Authored By: Patrick McKnight.   Businesses are on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak. Employers must attempt to balance public health concerns, compliance with emergency government orders, employee safety, consumer demand, and financial reality. Many…
  • Hanson Bridgett: CA- Governor’s Office Designates Cannabis an Essential Business

    Mar 30, 2020, 11:55 pm By Sean Hocking
    March 23, 2020 On Thursday, March 19, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a stay at home order to protect the health and well-being of all Californians and to establish a consistent approach across the state to slow the spread of COVID-19. This order went into…
  • Cannabis Standards Rely on Transparency, Compliance and Collaboration

    Mar 30, 2020, 1:21 am By Sean Hocking
      Authored By: Arundati Dandapani According to Vividata’s National Cannabis Consumer Study, 70% of consumers are not sure they know the difference between THC and CBD. Moreover, quality remains the top criterion in selecting a cannabis product for…
  • Canadian cannabis stocks hide compensation consultant fees

    Mar 26, 2020, 11:56 pm By Teri Buhl
     Authored by:  Teri Buhl Canadian cannabis company CEOs have been making big pay packages over the last few years coinciding with net losses. But, they have not been disclosing details required by Canadian law about who they employ to come up with the pay…
  • Elusive Edibles For Florida: Beginnings

    Mar 23, 2020, 7:02 pm By Heather Allman
    ELUSIVE EDIBLES FOR FLORIDA, BEGINNINGS— 1st PART IN SET Author: Heather Allman Start your edibles endeavor by reading the helpful A Beginner’s Guide to Using … Read More...
  • Think Before You Wake and Bake

    Mar 16, 2020, 3:39 am By Heather Allman
    What do you think about doing first thing when you open your eyes in the morning? Wakeup: Drinking a wake up cup of morning coffee? Rollout: Having a little cannabis bake-up morning?  Or like myself and many cannabis consumers, are you thinking about a…

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