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MANTS 2025 highlights horticulture industry connections

The 2025 Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show (MANTS) welcomed 10,460 attendees, including exhibitors, to a sold-out floor with 923 exhibitors at the Baltimore Convention Center from Jan. 8-10. Although attendance dipped slightly from 2024 due to... more »

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Diamond Packaging wins award for its child-resistant Hedy Cannabis packaging

Diamond Packaging is proud to announce that it has received an award for its Hedy child-resistant (CR) cannabis packaging. This marks Diamond’s first award for a folding carton design in the cannabis sector. “The Hedy... more »

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Zahara Cannabis Opens First Retail Location

Vantage Builders Inc. has completed the build-out of a high-end recreational cannabis dispensary for Zahara Cannabis, located in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Zahara means “most exquisite flower,” and the design of the dispensary aims to reflect the... more »

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Cannabis Retailer Signs Global Collective Bargaining Agreement

The largest cannabis employer in the state of California, Shryne Group Inc., and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) have entered into a historic collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for more than 1,200... more »

Data Shows Top Five Cannabis Sales Days of 2021

Business intelligence from Akerna, an enterprise software company and the developer of the most comprehensive technology infrastructure, ecosystem, and compliance engine powering the global cannabis industry, has revealed the top five cannabis sales days of... more »

Emerald Cup Now Accepting Submissions for 18th Annual Competition

The entry window for the 18th Annual Emerald Cup Competition and Awards is now open through Feb. 4. The Emerald Cup continues to celebrate excellence in organic, sun-grown, and now indoor, mixed light and auto-grown... more »

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Diamond Packaging Wins Award for Child-Resistant Cartons

Diamond Packaging has won three awards in the 2021 North American Paperboard Packaging Competition, the premier competition for carton manufacturers involved in the concept, design, print, performance, and shelf appeal of paperboard packaging. Awards were... more »

Leafly 2021 Cannabis Strain of the Year

Leafly Announces 2021 Cannabis Strain of the Year

Leafly Holdings, Inc., one of the world’s leading cannabis discovery marketplaces and resources, has named Dosidos as the 2021 Leafly Strain of the Year. The Leafly Strain of the Year is an annual honor bestowed... more »

MedMen Expands Product Portfolio with Exclusive Strains

MedMen Enterprises Inc., a cannabis retailer with operations across the nation, has expanded its wide-ranging product assortment to include seven of today’s hottest cannabis brands. The latest iteration of MedMen’s ever-expanding inventory will include new... more »

CA State Fair Cannabis Awards Open for Submissions

The first-ever CA State Fair Cannabis Awards is now open for submissions. This state-sanctioned competition is open to all licensed cannabis cultivators and will celebrate the 2021/2022 harvest of the California-grown, cannabis flower. Cannabis is... more »

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