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How Inflation is Affecting Cannabis: Prices, Closures, and the Job Market

Veriheal

Since COVID-19 rocked the economy, cannabis businesses and supply chains claim to have been playing catch-up to get back to business as usual. they cant fully attribute high prices to COVID-era supply chain issues unless they factor in items like growing equipment that are commonly manufactured and shipped from overseas.

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IDOA announces Metrc implementation timeline

Illinois News Joint

The implementation will start with transporter licenses and registered testing laboratories, followed by cultivation centers, craft growers, and infusers, and with dispensaries transitioning last. Metrc has additional information and support available online here.

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NORML Urges Congress to Provide Small Business Relief to State-Licensed Cannabis Companies

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” He added, “All that is needed by Congress is the passage of a one line legislative fix to protect tens-of-thousands of American jobs in a supply chain that serves over three million medical marijuana patients.”

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Akerna announces eCommerce platform, Akerna Connect, enabling cannabis dispensaries to offer online ordering, loyalty programs, and text messaging

Cannabis Law Report

Akerna Connect is an eCommerce software which provides a suite of digital marketing tools to retailers and dispensaries so locations can reach their consumers and enhance the shopping experience through online ordering, loyalty programs, and text messaging. The tools that Akerna Connect provides our dispensary are game changing.

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Dumpster Fire: What Went Wrong with CA Cannabis?

Project CBD

Supply Chain Woes Further up the supply chain, distributors are also buckling under. As for California’s cannabis retailers, numerous industry observers are warning that hundreds of dispensaries will be out of cash and credit by the end of the year. A year later, less than a thousand remain.

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Oakton College at forefront of cannabis education in Illinois

Illinois News Joint

Spring 2018, Oakton College started planning curriculum and courses that focused on medical consultations in dispensaries. August 2019, Oakton College started offering cannabis courses for the Cannabis Dispensary and Patient Care Specialist certificate. A video tour of the lab can be found here.

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Cannabis Is Helping Cultivate Jobs in More Than Dispensaries

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Rising consumer demand, supply chain shortages, and weather phenomena combined with inflation, and we see issues that are greatly impacting the agricultural community. The post Cannabis Is Helping Cultivate Jobs in More Than Dispensaries appeared first on Cannabis Central. According to MJBizDaily , “The total U.S.