ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Legal cannabis sales in New York state saw record growth in sales, according to the 2025 annual report released by the New York State Cannabis Control Board (CCB) and Office of Cannabis Management (OCM). Since the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act was signed into law in March 2021, adult-use retail sales have...

“If cannabis is medicine, why is the system built as if it were only a retail commodity?” By Jordan Tishler, MD, Association of Cannabinoid Specialists Currently, medical cannabis programs across the United States are dwindling. This is directly a result of these programs being deprioritized in favor of recreational programs and being regulated in a...

Rural communities packed local government meetings to defeat Big Tech giants. Medical marijuana companies vied for lucrative licenses but didn’t have any products available for purchase, while two GOP senators from the same state battled for the future of the hemp industry. And President Donald Trump vowed to unseat a fellow Republican congressman for repeatedly...