Cannabis Operators Rethink Software Stacks as Fragmented Systems Strain Operations
Cannabis retailers and multi-state operators are confronting a familiar problem: the software they bought to solve one headache is now creating five more. A point-of-sale system handles the register.
Georgia Cannabis Operator Opens Doors to Push Stalled Medical Bills
A decade after Georgia legalized low-THC medical cannabis, the program remains narrow, and lawmakers keep declining to widen it. In Macon-Bibb, one of the state's three licensed medical cannabis
Nevada City Council Advances Plan to Ease Cannabis Rules
Nevada City is poised to distinguish itself among small Northern California municipalities by moving toward a more permissive cannabis retail code rather than a more restrictive one. The city council
Older Consumers Emerge as Untapped Growth Engine for Cannabis Retailers
Michigan's cannabis market has a supply problem that everyone can see and a demand problem that almost nobody has been measuring correctly. Retail sales fell to roughly $3.17 billion in 2025 even as
Pennsylvania Hemp Retailers Brace for Federal Crackdown on THC Products
A federal deadline this December could reshape a Pennsylvania hemp market that operators estimate generates roughly a billion dollars a year in the state. Lawmakers in Washington are weighing whether
Federal Hemp Redefinition Puts Retailers on an Uncertain Clock
A federal law that redefines hemp is already on the books, signed in November 2025, and it will eventually reclassify most intoxicating hemp-derived products as federally illegal. The catch is
Oklahoma AG's Bank Ties Raise Cannabis Compliance Questions Before Runoff
An Oklahoma attorney general running for governor also chairs a bank that has grown sixfold on the back of cannabis deposits, and he has not opened its books. Gentner Drummond faces Mike Mazzei in
AI Chip Startup's Rapid Valuation Jump Signals Infrastructure Race
Etched, a startup building specialized hardware for AI inference, raised $700 million this week at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street. The quant trading firm reportedly tested the company's