[Canniseur: Not surprising. California has botched its legal cannabis market from the beginning. So have a lot of other states. Whether black market cannabis is better than what's in the stores, is a different topic, but in the meantime, it appears that those looking...

[Canniseur: $40 million is a surprising number mostly because of the incredibly high taxes (over 40%) in Illinois. I'd bet that of that $40 million, over $35 million of that came from Chicago and the suburbs. The article states that $8 million was from out-of-state...

[Canniseur: Why are bureaucrats always wrong about how much product will be needed for an adult-use cannabis market. This describes what's going on in each and every state that has legalized cannabis for adult use. When there's no product in an adult legal state,...

[Canniseur: In New Mexico water is a major issue, especially in the south. Cannabis is an agricultural product and as such must be grown on land zoned for agricultural uses. Although water isn't currently a major issue in New Mexico, cannabis is a water intensive crop...

[Canniseur: The cannabis industry in Michigan been plagued by issues going back to the medical-only cannabis market. Lack of supply is the first issue. Second, the commission charged with the task of running Michigan's cannabis programs shows their incompetence....

[Canniseur: Given all the talk about creating chances for equality in the cannabis market, it's kind of surprising it took this long to get a black-owned dispensary in San Francisco. In an ironic twist, it's opening in The Haight, as in Haight Ashbury, ground-zero for...

[Canniseur: I can't say enough about this huge change of policy for Major League Baseball. It's about time. MLB has been vocally and adamantly against drugs of any sort. Now the league is going to test for opiates only. In an odd way, this reminds me of the time that...

[Canniseur: The regulators in the state of Michigan are still sticking their collective heads in some very dark and dank places. It might seem from the outside that 'regulators' are thwarting an open market. Open as in, the normal economics of a market would govern...

This story first appeared in Cannabis Business Times [Canniseur: Here's a warning we should take seriously. There are too many producers of CBD products in the U.S. They're mostly good and reputable companies. But there are always a few bad actors in any business,...