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Cannabis Coalition Forms To Push Biden On Federal Reform: Will It Work This Time?
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 8:48am | 826Marijuana organizations, industry leaders, cannabis companies and experts in the field are teaming up to push for cannabis reform on the federal level. Last October President Biden asked the attorney general and Department of Health and Human Service to review cannabis classification under...
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Dutchie's VP Of Business Development Discusses The Future Of Cannabis Retail at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 8:14am | 140Sarah Kabakoff, Vice President of Business Development at Dutchie, was a guest speaker at Benzinga’s Cannabis Capital Conference on April 11, 2023. Dutchie is one of the leading Point-of-Sale systems developed specifically for the cannabis industry. It offers a full suite of tech covering...
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Dutchie CEO Says 4/20 Software Glitch Wasn't Caused By Increased Holiday Traffic
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 5:26pm | 236Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for the cannabis industry, suffered an outage on April 20 — an unofficial cannabis holiday and one of the busiest sales days of the year — due to a "series of cascading failures." The outage caused major inconvenience for retailers, wiping...
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EXCLUSIVE: Cannabis Industry Experts Share Insights On Building Customer Loyalty - 'It's All About Education'
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 5:37pm | 588A panel of experts discussed how cannabis companies are targeting retail customers, at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference in Miami Beach on Tuesday. The panel shared tips and tricks on what businesses should be doing to engage and keep their customers coming back for more. Frictionless...
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Exclusive: Cashless Cannabis Payments In Stores Now Available With The Expansion Of Dutchie Pay
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 9:03am | 478Dutchie announced the expansion of Dutchie Pay for in-store purchases across the U.S. This cash-free payment offering integrated into Dutchie’s all-in-one platform gives consumers and dispensaries access to more convenient and compliant ways to pay, reducing reliance on cash. “The...
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Cannabis In 2023: A Make It Or Break It Year
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 12:12pm | 1337By Tim Barash, CEO of cannatech company Dutchie. The past year of economic downturn has tested the resiliency of every industry. Cannabis, once touted as “recession-proof,” has not been immune. Public safety challenges, an oversaturated market, and federal inaction have all led to a...
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Multi-Billion Dollar Cannabis Co. Sues Nasdaq Darling For Unfair Competition, Seeking To Open Up One Key State Market
Monday, January 23, 2023 - 10:30am | 443Dutchie - the technology platform powering cannabis commerce, filed a lawsuit against Akerna Corporation,(NASDAQ: KERN) a cannabis traceability provider, to ensure a fair playing field for technology platforms that support the cannabis industry in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dutchie is suing...
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New Critical Software Solution For Seed-To-Sale Cannabis Operators Is Here! Thanks To Dutchie And Trym
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 11:35am | 357Cannabis tech company Dutchie has partnered with marijuana cultivation software provider Trym. The two companies confirmed on Tuesday the integration that will offer advanced functionality to vertically integrated businesses. Recent price compression across many major cannabis markets...
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Layoffs In Cannabis Industry Continue: LeafLink Is Latest To Join Curaleaf, Weedmaps And Trulieve
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 - 12:45pm | 612LeafLink, an online wholesale cannabis platform, laid off 80 workers on December 15th, reported MJBizDaily. “Unfortunately, as the cannabis industry continues to face headwinds and the current macroeconomic environment, we needed to take the next step in our evolution to continue...
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Curaleaf To Laid-Off Employees: 'What Made You Leave?' Company Botches Exit Survey
Friday, December 16, 2022 - 11:56am | 816Curaleaf Holdings (OTCQX: CURLF) laid off around 220 employees in November. According to Business Insider (BI), laid-off employees received an exit survey containing the question “What made you decide to leave?” A laid-off worker told BI that the question was insulting. See Also: It...
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Pass The Dutchie Reins: New Management In Place, But Founders Say It Was A Coup
Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 7:13pm | 341Dutchie's founders are suing the company's current leaders, calling the recent c-suite shakeup a corporate coup. The company, founded as Courier Plus Inc. in 2017 by brothers Ross and Zachary Lipson, announced on Dec. 1 that Timothy Barash would be taking over for Ross as the new CEO. Now...
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No More Weed Schemes: Pot Retailers Can No Longer Use Cashless ATMs, What Now & Why SAFE Might Not Be The Answer
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - 2:05pm | 1518For years, some if not most cannabis retailers have been obliged to employ a workaround to function within the restrictive system. Now, that is no longer an option. Marijuana merchants have been relying on cashless ATMs to bypass limitations on the types of sales payment...
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Weedmaps Cuts 25% Of Staff 'To Drive Line Of Sight To Profitability'
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 - 11:03am | 534WM Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPS) recently cut 25% of its workforce, or 175 employees. The layoffs come on the heels of Weed Maps CEO Chris Beals' stepping down on Nov. 7. Doug Francis, a WM Technology co-founder, is now running the company on an interim basis. "The decision to eliminate...
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Curaleaf Lays Off 220 Employees To Control Costs, Drive Efficiencies: Trend As Cannabis Companies Struggle?
Friday, December 2, 2022 - 2:08pm | 848Curaleaf Holdings (OTCQX: CURLF) laid off around 220 employees ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Business Insider reported. In a statement to the outlet, Curaleaf said the cuts were "part of an effort to control costs and drive efficiencies in the face of economic uncertainties...
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Key Cannabis Exec Changes You Need To Know About: Dutchie Taps New CEO, Illinois' New Cannabis Officer & More
Friday, December 2, 2022 - 9:58am | 1126Dutchie Names New CEO Cannabis-tech company Dutchie has named a new CEO, reported Marijuana Business Daily. Executive chair Tim Barash agreed to replace the company's co-founders, brothers Ross and Zach Lipson, who decided to step down. Prior to joining Dutchie, Barash was the chief business...