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Hopeful Cannabis Sales Data an Encouraging Sign for Insurance Specialists

News has been rife with dreary tidings for the cannabis industry over the past year, but a surprisingly encouraging outlook has emerged among the persistent din of downward harbingers like a flower glut, investment funding shrinkage, and layoffs. Industry sales …

Insuring Cannabis Summit: More Market Growth Through the Year and Beyond

This is part of a series of articles from Insurance Journal’s annual Insuring Cannabis Summit on Oct. 14. You can find more articles from the summit at the bottom of this one. Cannabis literally beat COVID-19. After being declared an …

Takeaways from Our ‘What Makes a Good Cannabis Broker?’ Conversation

A broker hands an underwriter an application for a cannabis operation. No red flags so far, but then the underwriter takes a look for himself and finds a converted residence smack in the middle of a neighborhood, complete with minors …

Global 2020 Cannabis Sales Hit $21B, Insurance Brokers Saw Premium Boost

If one thing can be said about the pandemic, it definitely was not a bad thing for cannabis, a business that many states declared to be essential as numerous other business sectors shut down to help slow the spread of …

Cannabis Broker Spotlight: Worldwide’s Ives Sees Cannabis Time in Dog Years

Editor’s note: This part of a series of profiles on cannabis brokers, in which Insurance Journal explores why and how these folks got into the business, the ups and downs of insuring cannabis, as well as a few tips for …