Posts by Josh LeBaron

Find out why loyalty programs – whether they come from your local grocery store or your neighborhood cannabis dispensary – are an effective way to get customers into the shop and keep them coming back.

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Marijuana Business Daily breaks down the big deal behind Constellation’s $3.8 billion bet on cannabis and Wall Street’s involvement.

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Can Hemp Clean Up the Earth? Scientists are looking at how hemp could clean contaminated soil, further proving it to be a miracle plant.

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Find out 5 reasons why diversity, equity and inclusion are essential in the cannabis industry. Business Inclusion is not just a catch phrase, it’s a managing philosophy.

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The Marijuana Show, now in its third season and streaming on Amazon Prime, is being called “The Shark Tank of cannabis” for its ability to connect weed startups with investment capital to scale up operations.

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It’s more than soybean farmers and car makers who could feel the effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products. The legal cannabis industry will take a hit as well.

Read more here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/julieweed/2018/08/12/trumps-tariffs-set-to-hit-cannabis-industry/#53ba4dff5816

Entrepreneur and activist Wanda James was the first black woman to open a dispensary in Colorado. Hear her thoughts on the current state of the industry and why there is still a lot of work to be done before cannabis is regulated like alcohol.

Read more here: https://www.westword.com/marijuana/dispensary-owner-and-marijuana-activist-wanda-james-talks-about-social-equity-in-weed-10614420

Inventory management is an important part of compliance with legal cannabis, and most states have established systems through which dispensaries can fulfill their seed-to-sale traceability requirements.

For the legal cannabis industry, retailers can’t be caught with a discrepancy in their inventory as it pertains to their records or their agreements with their suppliers, and must effectively account for every single gram of cannabis that is brought under their brand. Click the link below for tips on how to decrease inventory problems.

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With 65 dispensaries and over 35,000 patients, the medical cannabis industry in Maryland is on the rise in Baltimore County, city and state.

Read more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/towson/ph-tt-medical-cannabis-0706-story.html

A bill introduced in Congress last week would offer employment protections to federal workers who use marijuana in accordance with the laws of their state. The bipartisan measure was introduced on July 26 and is co-sponsored by Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) and Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA).

Read more here: https://hightimes.com/news/bill-introduced-protect-employment-legal-marijuana-consumers/