Canada If your company is producing hand sanitizer to fight COVID-19, make sure it’s alcohol-based Valens and Neptune’s formulations are in line with official guidance, while others are not Nick LabaApril 9, 2020
COVID-19 Ontario allows weed delivery and pickup to combat illicit market While store owners welcomed the news, more operational details have to be worked out Nick LabaApril 8, 2020
COVID-19 Organigram lays off 400 workers due to COVID-19 The producer will keep a skeleton crew employed at its New Brunswick facility to keep up with Canadian market demand Jared GnamApril 7, 2020
COVID-19 Canadian business owners more concerned about cash flow than health: COVID-19 survey A Canadian Federation of Independent Business survey found 76% are most concerned with looming bills Michelle GamageApril 7, 2020
Canada Weed companies eligible for federal relief funds, but there’s a catch Businesses have to apply through a bank, many of which still refuse to work with cannabis Michelle GamageApril 6, 2020
COVID-19 Retailer High Tide issues temporary layoffs in Ontario Company said it closed its three Ontario locations after the province removed cannabis businesses as essential amid COVID-19 shutdowns Jared GnamApril 6, 2020
COVID-19 Fire & Flower ups online options, says Ontario closures bolster black market The retailer will be offering curbside pickup in Saskatchewan and is asking Ontario allow more online options for private retailers Nick LabaApril 6, 2020
Analysis No, cannabis isn’t recession proof, analyst says The recent COVID-19-related sales bump won't last as demand for cannabis isn't as inelastic during a recession as some think, Jerome Hass of Lightwater... Jared GnamApril 3, 2020
COVID-19 Bong for your buck: How weed could beat out alcohol as recession’s value-pick vice BDS Analytics’s CEO weighs in on the most recent round of sales data from one of the industry’s leading data firms Nick LabaApril 2, 2020
Analysis ‘Guys, we have one job: survive’ Analysis: Business professor says weed companies have to make tough decisions to survive the oncoming recession, as his did in the dot-com era Nick LabaApril 1, 2020