Category Archives: cannabis business

A New Compliance Education Platform Gives Retailers an Edge

A few years ago, Eastman re-connected with childhood friend Shawn Hauser, a partner at Vicente Sederberg. After careful consideration, the pair decided to join forces, launching Rootwurks in July 2021. “We took 20 years of lessons from the food industry and applied it to what we built, tailoring the solution from the ground up to […]

What Does the Future of Retail Cannabis Packaging Look Like?

N2 also uses pull tabs and child-resistant, senior-friendly lid apparatuses that combine compliance with accessibility. Most of the 13 patents N2 holds in the U.S., Canada, and 11 other countries center around the locking and connecting mechanisms for the actual lid adherence to the can. “What we are responsible for is building the better mousetrap,” […]

Wrestlers Mercedes Varnado, Kalisto Launch New CBD Company

I also have a younger brother with disabilities who has autism and tumors, who also takes CBD. And it helps everybody. We’re not just talking athletes. We’re talking about every type of person in this world. It’s anti-inflammatory. And that’s the key message — once you fix the inflammation in your body, that’s when everything […]

Who’s Finding Success in Oklahoma’s Cannabis Technology Boom?

Perhaps one doesn’t think of cannabis when conjuring images of Oklahoma, but over the past several years the Sooner State has emerged as a hotspot for cannabis production and distribution. Based on per capita consumption, Oklahoma is now the largest medical marijuana market in the country.  In 2018, Oklahoma voters authorized the state’s medical marijuana […]

Cannabis Drinks Expo to Grow Cannabis Drinks Category in 2023

You will learn on how to work with co-packers, how to sell effectively in dispensaries, what are cannabis distributors looking for, what trends to expect and how to do business with MSO’s and more. The conference will also include a technical panel which will focus on product development. Networking Party Don’t miss the the cocktail […]

Choosing the Right Container for Your Cannabis

Walking into a dispensary for the first time, or even the tenth, can be a little overwhelming. With such a wealth of options of brands, strains, and packaging types, decision paralysis can easily set in. While decisions on whether to purchase flower, concentrates, edibles, or a refreshing cannabis beverage comes down to personal choice and […]

A Global Cannabis Cultivation Revolution is Underway

The practice of cultivating cannabis is far from new. The cannabis plant is believed to have first evolved roughly 28 million years ago based on the results of a pollen research project, the results of which were originally published in May 2019. More than 4,000 years ago farmers in China started to master the art of […]

Content Creator Advice for Creating an Engaging Online Presence

On Being a Content Creator and Entrepreneur   I’m literally having to create a job and a career for myself from scratch. So it’s been a lot of ups and downs, a lot of struggles, a lot of trial and error.  Attracting New Followers People wonder, ‘Why do all the big accounts interact with one […]

Retail and Packaging Cannabis Products That Will Surprise You

In each issue of Cannabis & Tech Today, our editors put together a list of innovative and unusual cannabis products that everyone from the retailer to the consumer can appreciate. For Volume 4 Issue 3, we focused on innovations in packaging and fresh-to-the-scene retail products. Check out the top 10 below and tell us what […]

Hemp Could be the Biggest Investment Opportunity Since Plastic

“I just want to say one word to you, just one word … Plastics!” This is the phrase Mr. McGuire told a young Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 film The Graduate. His sagely advice applied not only to Hoffman, but to an audience that would soon become the plastics companies’ path to billions of dollars of […]