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We’ve talked here in the past about how utterly pointless it is to try to predict the future of just about anything in the cannabis...

Looking back, to me, 2021 was the year that many of the conflicting forces in cannabis came to the fore. Certainly, we had the...

Friends – with the recent crop of announcements showing robust activity in cannabis debt capital markets – among others, Curaleaf...

Friends – well, unfortunately, I continue to be right about one thing. Despite some of the breathless hopes and dreams of those on...

Friends, I don’t have the chutzpah to suggest that someone in the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department reads these Cannabis...

Friends, you may have noticed that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed another cannabis legalization bill, the “States Reform Act”, sporting a...

Friends, we don’t talk much in these Cannabis Musings about social equity in cannabis. There’s no great reason for that beyond my...

Friends, a cautionary tale.

As you may know, one of the more popular ways for early-stage cannabis (and other) companies to raise capital...

Friends, in past years, after the mishegas of MJBizCon, I’ve provided my take on the temperature of the industry in these Cannabis Musings

Friends, if you’re like me, you’re looking forward to the frenzy of next week that will be MJBizCon in Las Vegas. It’s always an...

Friends, at the risk of sounding like I’m constantly repeating myself (link, link, link, etc.), news came earlier this week of another...

Friends, earlier this week, a private cannabis real estate investment trust (or REIT, a particular financial structure I previously...

Friends, Marijuana Business Daily had an interesting article this week about how loans are getting less expensive (generally meaning that...

Friends, my apologies for the delay in getting out this latest Cannabis Musings. What with the various holidays and all, it’s not always...

Friends, perhaps I was being a little too dismissive of the draft Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act when I wrote about it a few...

Friends, the team at Headset, Inc., which provides cannabis industry data and analytics, posted an interesting analysis earlier this week...