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Consumers are demanding clean, quality cannabis—and without a cold chain, the industry risks turning craft flower into commodity biomass. The post Preservation is the Buzzword for 2026 appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

Learn how dispensaries can increase average basket sizes and capture high-margin revenue by modernizing their accessory merchandising strategy. The post The $3 ‘Cover Charge’ Cannabis Retailers Are Leaving on the Table appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

Dead stock is dead money. Here’s how to fix it. The post You Aren’t Making a Profit Because Your Ordering Process is Jacked appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

Cannabis medicine is about to move beyond today’s trial-and-error approach toward more personalized, precise treatments The post The Power of AI and How it Will Transform Cannabis Medicine appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

Utah’s pharmacist-led medical cannabis program offers an early look at how dispensaries may operate as marijuana moves into a Schedule III medical model. The post Are Pharmacies the New Dispensary Model? Utah Thinks So appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

The winback: reactivating the customers who already know your name. The post How a Simple 3-Email Sequence Drove ROI for This Dispensary appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

On one side is the DEA, where the administrative law judge must issue his recommendation. On the other hand, Congress is deciding whether to delay, revise, or replace the hemp restrictions scheduled to take effect later this year. The post What Does Cannabis Rescheduling Mean for Hemp Beverages? appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

Every stage of the production process including cultivation, extraction processing, manufacturing, packaging and delivery could potentially contribute elemental contaminants. The post What Cannabis Manufacturers Can Learn from the Pharmaceutical Industry About Trace Metal Impurities in Plastic Materials appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

This year’s event creates a crossover opportunity with the Food Safety Conference and gives cannabis professionals access to institutional expertise, while food safety experts gain a closer look at the unique quality challenges emerging in the cannabis industry. The post Here Is What to Expect at the Upcoming Cannabis Quality Conference appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.

For years, much of the conversation around cannabis quality has focused on what goes into the product: potency, pesticides, solvents, microbial contamination, terpene profiles, and certificates of analysis. That scrutiny is necessary, but it stops one step too soon. Cannabis is burned in a pipe, heated inside a vaporizer cartridge, exposed to a high-temperature surface… Continue reading → The post The Overlooked Risks of Hardware in Pipes, Vapes and Dab Rigs appeared first on Cannabis Industry Journal.