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Marijuana Business Daily recently announced it had donated more than $425,000 in cash and in-kind donations to cannabis industry initiatives throughout 2019, through its Industry Giveback Program. The program was created in 2015 and supports non-profit organizations and professional associations...

Medical marijuana production in Italy may triple in 2020 as the government aims to lesser its reliance on imports, according to Marijuana Business Daily. The only organization with the license to cultivate medical cannabis in Italy, Stabilimento Chimico Farmaceutico di Firenze (SCFF), was...

Germany recently halted Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) product sales, until the health authorities investigate the production process. The production step awaiting for the inspection is related to a method that Aurora utilizes to attain a long shelf life of the flower, German pharmacies reportedly...

German pharmacies were recently asked to stop the sale of Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) products, according to Marijuana Business Daily. The products are awaiting for inspection by health authorities due to a proprietary step in Aurora’s production process, the publication said....

Six of the 18 states that have legalized legalize adult use or medicinal cannabis since 2016 have made diversity measures part of their program.  Data released in August 2019 by Marijuana Business Daily found that states are warming to social equity measures in cannabis. With less than half of...

Western Australia made an advancement in public health policy earlier this month by allowing general practitioners to prescribe cannabis-derived medicines. This brings the region in lockstep with other jurisdictions including New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, according to...

Canopy Growth Corp (NYSE: CGC), a Canada-based cannabis multinational, is laying off 15% of its workforce in Latin America, citing concerns around the region's regulatory infancy and the company’s intent to focus on near-term revenue-generating investments, according to a report by...

Vertically integrated cannabis company Green Thumb Industries (CSE: GTII) (OTC: GTBIF) is refusing to recognize the Teamsters union at its Rock Island, Illinois cultivation facility, according to Marijuana Business Daily. The company said it refused to recognize the union because an...

This week, Marijuana Business Daily (MJBizDaily) was named the exclusive national media sponsor for the Cannabis Marketing Association (CMA), an industry trade group focused on supporting the growth of cannabis communications professionals. “As the markets and business competitiveness across...

After years serving as CEO of the company she co-founded, Cassandra Farrington is leaving Marijuana Business Daily. She will retain her post as board chair and help guide the long-term vision of MJBizDaily. Chris Walsh, founding editor and current president of MJBizDaily, will take over the CEO...

If there is one country directly associated with cannabis, it's Jamaica. It's well-known that cannabis is part of the island nation's culture and tradition. Bob Marley, Rastafarians, “Jamaican ganja” and Usain Bolt are probably the first four things that come to...

Paraguay is set to establish rules for the country's first commercial cannabis production licenses, Julio Mazzoleni, the Paraguayan minister of public health and social welfare, announced last week at a press conference, according to Marijuana Business Daily. Starting in October,...

Cannabis data analytics company Headset and Marijuana Business Daily have announced a data partnership. The deal will allow MJBizDaily's journalists, editors, researchers and analysts to get access to real-time retail-derived data from the U.S. and Canada's cannabis industry. MJBizDaily...

Not long ago, the cannabis industry could take pride in the higher-than-usual percentage of C-suite positions occupied by women, with roughly 1-in-3 of these posts held by a woman. This number plummeted in just a couple of years, however, dropping from 36 percent in 2015 to 27 percent in 2017...

The cannabis industry in Massachusetts is taking a big step Tuesday with the opening of the first two adult-use dispensaries two years after legalization and more than a month after the Cannabis Control Commission voted on the matter and issued four licenses. What Happened The Cannabis Control...