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Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Parenti with PCF Loves Cannabis and Pizza

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …

Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Porter with Brown & Brown Sees Growing Opportunities

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …

Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Boden With Crouse Went All-in on the Budding Industry

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …

Cannabis Cultivation Market Expanding, But Insurance Might be a Headwind

The cannabis cultivation market in the U.S. continues to expand, though COVID-19 will affect or is affecting the majority of these businesses, while operations get bigger, facilities become more numerous, and overall profits continue to increase, according to a report …

Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Worldwide’s Ives Sees Cannabis Time in Dog Years

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …

SAFE Banking in Stimulus Could Put Cannabis Industry on Steroids

A big and long-awaited boost for cannabis – and those who offer financial products to cannabis businesses – now in the hands of Congress may not only help usher the industry through the coming pandemic-ridden economic slump, it could have …

4 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Cannabis and Insurance

One may not need to be able to read the cannabis leaves to divine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis and insurance. Some good guesses from any insurance professional with their foot in the door of a dispensary, …

Top Risks Facing Cannabis Industry in 2020 Not What You Think

On the tail-end of what turned out to be an extremely risky year for cannabis companies, one must wonder what 2020 has in store for a quasi-legal industry that is contending with a vaping crisis, contentious politics at all levels …

Report: Cannabis Dispensaries May Become ‘Most Profitable’ Specialty Stores

Selling insurance to cannabis dispensaries may the business in which to be in the very near future. A new report claims that cannabis retailing could become one of the “most profitable specialty store categories ever.” The report, From Dispensaries to …

California Governor’s OK of Cannabis Tax Bill Among Several Industry-Related Bills He Signed

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been quite friendly to the cannabis industry lately, signing into law more than a half-dozen cannabis-industry related bills. The bills were intended to add to or subtract from the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and …