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The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) has established seven principles as guidelines by which cooperatives put their values into practice.  The First Principle is Voluntary and Open Membership:“Cooperatives are voluntary organizations, open to all persons able to use their services and

What Happens After Cannabis?Cannabis legalization has spread across most of the country in some form – more than 2/3 of the states have a medical marijuana program and 15 states (representing about 1/3 of the US population) have adult use

The title of this post is misleading. There’s not ten types on the list, but that’s not the point.  We are actually going to take a tiny, non-inclusive peek into history to look at some types of cooperative businesses that

The term “organic” can be found widely used in the cannabis space, in website copy, advertising, and in casual conversations.  Organic is a term that is, perhaps, most often associated with the produce at certain high-end grocery stores or at

Cannabis Cooperatives
A cannabis Co-op is a cannabis business that operates cooperatively.  Co-ops are based on the idea that the people who either work at, or use, the business are the owners.  The owners get the profits and they get

Patchwork of State and Federal PoliciesThe USDA’s Interim Final Rule (IFR) on hemp production, and the individual states’ widely varying hemp policies have created a patchwork of hemp law ranging from prohibition to federally compliant to state-protectionist to arguably federally

As the number of states legalizing medical and adult-use cannabis increases, the number of athletes living, training and competing in states with legal cannabis is rapidly increasing.  What does this mean? I remember in 1998, when a snowboarder (Rebagliati) won the

The USDA Interim Final Rule for the production of hemp was published on 10/31/2019.  There is much to say about this Rule and this blog will try to highlight issues receiving little attention in the media.   Sampling The Sampling Guidelines have