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Emerald Intel Acquires Cannabiz Media: Uniting Two Leaders in Cannabis Market Intelligence
Emerald Intel has acquired Cannabiz Media, uniting two of the cannabis industry’s leading data and intelligence providers. This acquisition brings together Emerald Intel’s global license, compliance, and sales data with Cannabiz Media’s robust database of licensed businesses and key decision-makers. The result is the most comprehensive, reliable, and actionable view of the licensed cannabis market—empowering sales, marketing, finance, and compliance teams to make smarter, data-driven decisions.
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Industry News
The Rise of Marijuana Dinner Parties, Fine Dining, Painting Parties and More
Two out of three Americans (66%) support legalizing cannabis according to Gallup Poll data . This growing acceptance, combined with the growth of the marijuana industry and the approval of adult-use cannabis in 12 states (including the District of Columbia), ...
Industry News
Marijuana Jobs Lure Workers with All Skills
Job growth in the marijuana industry has been on the rise for years, but it wasn’t until 2017 that growth exploded. According to the 2019 Cannabis Jobs Count report from Leafly and Whitney Economics, there were more than 211,000 cannabis jobs ...
Marketing
The Growing Importance of Branding for Cannabis Businesses
The cannabis industry is growing and a recent report by Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics projects that the U.S. cannabis spending will jump to more than $40 billion by 2024. That means in just five years, marijuana sales will quadruple.
Industry News
15 Marijuana Jobs to Break into the Fastest Growing Job Market
Job growth in the cannabis industry has been increasing rapidly in recent years with 76% more cannabis jobs open in December 2018 than one year earlier according to Glassdoor and 211,000 new full time jobs created in the United States ...
State News
Are Local Marijuana License Fees Extortionate?
Local marijuana license fees can have a significant impact in a state’s marijuana industry. In some states where medical and/or recreational marijuana has been legalized, local municipalities are given a great deal of leeway in determining what marijuana businesses can and can’t do within their borders.
Company News
Cannabiz Media Announces Free Regional Subscriptions for Cannabis License Holders
The Cannabiz Media team has been hard at work enhancing the Cannabiz Media License Database, now offering expanded CRM and email marketing functionality, and currently tracking over 50,000 licenses throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Industry News
Imperfect Cannabis Driving Impairment Tests: No Viable Solution in Sight
The problem with testing for cannabis and related driving impairment is that there isn’t a direct correlation between the amount of THC a person has consumed and their impairment level like there is with alcohol consumption and impairment.
Industry News
How Real Estate Affects the Value of a Marijuana License
The term “cannabis effect” or “cannabis premium” refers to the inflated real estate costs that cannabis license holders are required to pay across the United States. The problem is the cost of real estate has a direct negative effect on a cannabis business, ...
Industry News
European Cannabis Symposium Recap: What’s Happening in Europe?
Earlier this month, the Cannabiz Media team attended MJBizDaily’s two-day European Cannabis Symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the event, I had the opportunity to attend several insightful presentations covering topics ...
