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Takeaways from Our Conversation on Insuring Magic Mushrooms

Magic mushrooms are a class of drugs in a promising industry referred to broadly as psychedelics, a market that some believe will reach more than $8 billion in the next few years. Like cannabis, they are considered controlled substances. So, …

Takeaways from Our Conversation on Rare and Minor Cannabinoids

Rare and minor cannabinoids, which occur in much smaller quantities than CBD and THC, have yielded an alphabet soup of new acronyms in our language – CBN, CBG, THCV, Delta-8 THC, CBC – and they have the potential to boost …

Insuring Cannabis Summit: Too Many Operators View Coverage as Compliance Check Box

This is part of a series of articles from Insurance Journal’s annual Insuring Cannabis Summit on Oct. 14. You can find more articles from the summit at the bottom of this one. One big reason carriers aren’t offering a broad …

Oregon Court Distills the Science of Cannabis to Find Insurance for a CBD Claim

Although the 2018 Farm Bill carved out hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act, few court rulings have addressed the legal distinction between federally legal hemp and federally illegal cannabis. A new opinion from the District of Oregon (Bogard v. …

Takeaways from Our Conversation about Cannabis Product Liability Suits Worth Watching

If you ask just about any insurance pro or risk manager to list the top exposures for a company, being sued is likely to be right up there. And if you boiled that down into another list, among the greatest …

Insuring Cannabis Summit: Legal Cannabis Space Moving at Light Speed

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during Insurance Journal’s 2020 Insuring Cannabis Summit on Nov. 19. Things aren’t just moving fast in the legal cannabis space, they are moving very fast. …

COVID-19 Will Have Biggest Impact on Cannabis Space, Poll Shows

COVID-19 will have the biggest impact on cannabis and insurance the rest of this year and into the foreseeable future, according to the majority of participants in Insurance Journal’s April 15 webinar “Insuring Cannabis: From the Mechanics to Seeing Through …