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The Hemp Industry Has Room To Grow
As the third nationally legal industrial hemp crop hits the market, it is clear that American producers, consumers, merchants and processors are engaged, at an early stage, in a grand and exciting economic experiment to leverage an ages-old commodity into effective, reliable products for technologically advanced markets.
Hemp Production Normalizes (not NORMLizes)
Hemp farming is experiencing normal growing pains. We can see the industry’s maturation in the evolution of the legal, commercial and business issues hemp farmers and processors are grappling with.
Latest Cannabis License Lawsuit Pits Craft Growers v. the State of Illinois
Lawsuits related to stalled cannabis licenses are piling up in Illinois, with the latest suit filed Monday by the Illinois Craft Cannabis Association v. Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the State of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
Healthy Outlook for 2020 Hemp Production
There is some good news about industrial hemp production buried in PanXchange’s September 2020 report, Hemp: Benchmark and Analysis. Like last year, there has been a big jump this month in the monthly report of the number of planted hemp acres as the harvest...
Cannabis sector outperforms S&P 500 as U.S. sales grow
Saleem Daya, analyst at Nasdaq corporate solutions in Toronto, updates John Lothian News on the Q2 performance of listed cannabis shares amid strong U.S. sales and waning COVID-driven volatility.
Illinois’ Social Equity License Applicants Get Their Day in Court
Controversy over the application process for the state of Illinois’ 75 social equity licenses to open cannabis dispensaries found its way into court on Friday and is expected to be given a full hearing next Thursday, September 17. U.S. District Court Judge Jorge L....
Were Illinois’ Social Equity Applicants Burned?
Heated debate and a lawsuit quickly followed the release on September 3 of a list of 21 finalists for the state’s social equity cannabis dispensary licenses.
Chicago NORML: Social Equity Licenses Just the Start
Stephen Simpson, executive secretary of the cannabis advocacy group Chicago NORML, spoke with John Lothian News about the group's social equity agenda and why the imminent awarding of 75 new dispensary licenses is just one item on a long checklist.
Hemp Prices: “I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up”
The August 2020 Hemp: Benchmarks and Analysis was published last week by our friends at PanXchange. Now, at the end of August the harvest of field grown industrial hemp has not only begun, but also some early harvested hemp targeted to the cannabidiol (CBD) market is...
Legal cannabis ups the ante for alternative payment systems
Chicago entrepreneurs seek to bring cash-heavy retail industry into digital age
Hemp Prices Stagnate; Hempcrete Gets Debunked
PanXchange’s July hemp benchmark report was published on Wednesday. If you have been following this space you will not be surprised to learn that hemp prices remain depressed.
Publicly Traded Cannabis Stocks See Volume, Volatility as Sector Matures
Saleem Daya, analyst with Nasdaq IR Intelligence in Toronto, breaks down early 2020 trends in cannabis-related stocks for John Lothian News, and talks about active investors in the space and why some certain stock names have had greater appeal, both in the U.S. and...
“Super Proud” of Illinois’s Social Equity Cannabis Program
“Everybody having what they need to succeed” defines “social equity,” according to Akele Parnell, an attorney with the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. With regard to the nascent Illinois cannabis industry, the question shouldn’t be “Is it working?” but...
Seeking a Laid-Back Business Venture? A Cannabis Dispensary May Not Be For You
Opening and running an Illinois dispensary to sell legal cannabis products begins and ends with regulation, and failing to comply is fraught with peril, attorneys from FoxRothschild told participants in this weekend’s Sparklist Summit. “Disclose, disclose, disclose,”...
Cannabis Education Efforts Go Full Throttle Despite COVID-Related Roadblocks
In an interview with Kerry Jordan, co-founder of the consultancy Supercritical, and Amanda Gettes, director of strategic initiatives at Chicago’s Olive Harvey College, JLN provides a midyear update on the state’s nascent cannabis industry
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