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The cannabis industry continues to evolve, and a significant challenge for businesses is how to deliver top-shelf quality products without driving up costs. This issue is tightly linked to concerns over gross profit margins (GPM), manufacturing processes, intellectual property (IP), and the...

September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month, a proclamation designated by the U.S. Government to recognize the achievements of the Hispanic community. We at Benzinga also want to celebrate those achievements by underscoring the dedication and hard work of these...

How can we create equity in cannabis?  This and many other important questions concerning the marijuana industry were tackled by Chanda Macias, CEO of Ilera Holistic Healthcare during a panel discussion at the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference. Macias is also known to...

Only 8% of cannabis CEOs are women and even fewer are African American dispensary owners. "I'm just a little unicorn," Dr. Chanda Macias, CEO of Ilera Holistic Healthcare, said on the most recent Benzinga Cannabis Hour (see video below). Ilera is a Louisiana-based medical...

The United States continues to have the largest prison population globally. Some 2.1 million Americans were incarcerated as of November 2018. On the federal level, marijuana sentencing has dropped sharply in recent years. Just 92 individuals were sentenced for possession in 2017. Yet according...

Louisiana is moving forward with a piece of legislation that would make medical marijuana move easily available in the state by authorizing recommendations from any state-licensed physician, while updating the list of qualifiable medical conditions.  House Bill 819 passed Senate vote on...

Cannabis companies are hustling to stay afloat and turn a profit just like every other business, but for Dr. Chanda Macias, the ramifications of the economic downturn are much more personal. Mothers like her rely on medicinal cannabis for treating their children's ailments. As CEO of...

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Baton Rouge, Lousiana is launching a hemp-derived CBD product line, ALAFIA, with Ilera Holistic Healthcare. Southern University is the first historically black college university, or HBCU, to launch a hemp product, Ilera...