High Times: Cannabis Now America’s Fifth Most Profitable Crop

With recreational pot now legal in 18 states, cannabis is a bona fide profitable cash crop. In November, Leafly Holdings, Inc. released its first ever “Cannabis Harvest Report” that examined “farm licenses and production in the 11 states that have legal...

Spotlight: Osbert Orduña

The Cannabis Place Q&A Session with the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Question 1: When did you first start in the Legal Cannabis Industry and why?  In late 2020 and early 2021, I visited 50 non-MSO recreation and medical dispensaries in five states on...

Spotlight: Cato Felan III

La Hoja Capital Management LLC Q&A Session with the National Hispanic Cannabis Council Question 1: When did you first start in the Legal Cannabis Industry and why?  My partner and I jumped in Spring/Summer 2018.  I had been studying crypto and cannabis for almost...

How Latinos can benefit from the rapidly growing cannabis economy

BY CHUCK SCHUMER AND ANTONIO VALDEZ The War on Drugs has too often inadvertently been a war on people, and overwhelmingly on people of color. For far too long, Latinos have borne the brunt of this policy without fully reaping the benefits of a fast-growing cannabis...

Pew Research Center: 6 facts about Americans and marijuana

Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but a growing number of states have legalized the drug for medical or recreational purposes in recent years. The changing legal landscape has coincided with a dramatic increase in public support for legalization, which is...

Jared Maloof, Standard Wellness

Prior to serving as the CEO of Standard Wellness, Jared served as the CFO of PSC Metals, Inc which had revenues of as much as $1B. PSC was a reportable segment of Icahn Enterprises (IEP, Nasdaq). PSC operates a network of 8 scrap shredders, 2 non-ferrous separation...

Vox: Federal marijuana legalization is stopped in its tracks

It has been nearly a decade since the first time a majority of Americans supported legalizing cannabis. Two years ago, that number reached a record high, according to Gallup, with 68 percent supporting marijuana legalization — a number that has held...