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Cannabis prices: Are we in a race to the bottom? – Leafly Link copied to your clipboard Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? Which part of Canada? Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Sorry, Leafly isn’t available in your location yet. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Canada’s first wave of private cannabis stores was dominated by retail spaces designed to mimic the Apple store, with iPads on gleaming white countertops to scroll through product selections. “You were going to have people who had never been…

With sweeping legalization across the United States, the cannabis industry has made some serious strides over the past few years. Thirty-six states have now legalized medical marijuana, and 28 states, plus Washington DC, have legalized cannabis for recreational use. However, a cloud of uncertainty persists when it comes to cannabis finance and banking. Finding cannabis finance solutions and securing cannabis loans can be challenging. Cannabis is big business. New Frontier Data estimates the legal cannabis market will be worth $51 billion by 2025. And yet, as it remains illegal on the federal level, larger banking institutions and payment processing companies have opted…

The path to Indigenous Sovereignty isn’t through legal weed – Leafly Link copied to your clipboard Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? Which part of Canada? Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Sorry, Leafly isn’t available in your location yet. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Since cannabis was legalized in 2018, industry profiteers in the new multibillion-dollar market have been predominantly white men. Meanwhile, Indigenous folks, who have been disproportionately criminalized for possession of cannabis, continue to be overrepresented in Canada’s weed arrests. The Cannabis…

It’s been more than two years since frightening stories of young people rushed to emergency rooms with severe breathing problems—developed after using illicit-market cannabis vaporizer cartridges—flooded the news. Since then, it’s become generally understood that the culprit responsible for the e-cigarette or vaping associated lung injury outbreak (or “EVALI” for short, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classified the condition) was vitamin E acetate. A common food additive, thick and oily vitamin E acetate was used as a cutting agent to dilute cannabis oil and thus cheaper to acquire. It also coated users’ lungs with thick and oily…

Cannabis advocates in South Dakota saw a real victory in last year’s elections, as voters approved an amendment to the state constitution legalizing adult use. But it was immediately met with legal challenge. And now the state’s top court has definitively squelched it. The South Dakota Supreme Court on Nov. 24 ruled that the process by which the amendment passed was itself unconstitutional. It was clear, however, that the real motivations behind the legal challenge were related to cultural conservatism and the cannabis stigma. Legalism Against Legalization  Understanding the stratagem used here requires getting into the legal weeds a little. In the…