The road ahead for cannabis lending in 2025

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3 days ago

March 27, 2025

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As cannabis banking becomes increasingly competitive – particularly in states with mature markets – financial institutions are being pushed to rethink their strategies.

While cannabis accounts offer the ability to add core deposits, the real opportunity is in lending.

For banks and credit unions willing to embrace the risks of this high-growth industry, the rewards can be substantial for lenders and borrowers alike.

The cannabis sector requires tens of billions of dollars annually just to sustain operations; even greater capital is needed to fuel growth.

According to an October 2024 report from Oregon-headquartered Whitney Economics, “The U.S. cannabis industry will need between

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Humboldt County extends deadline to pay marijuana cultivation taxes

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2 days ago

March 28, 2025

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Humboldt County supervisors have extended the deadline for hundreds of marijuana farmers to pay off cultivation taxes enacted years ago.

County growers faced a March 31 deadline to eliminate all tax debts related to Measure S, a ballot referendum approved by voters in 2016, more than a year before the launch of adult-use sales.

Supervisors pushed the looming deadline to April 4 for 210 license holders to make their first payments or face suspension, according to the Standard Times of Eureka.

For the hundreds more who have made some payment, their deadline was extended to Dec. 31, 2025.

No more relief

The county supervisors indicated at their March 25 meeting this will be the final extension, the newspaper reported.

Despite the extensions, hundreds

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Edible Arrangements’ parent company enters hemp-derived THC market

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1 week ago

March 21, 2025

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Edible Arrangements’ parent company is getting into the cannabis edibles business.

Georgia-based Edible Brands is launching edibles.com, an e-commerce marketplace that will offer hemp-derived THC products from brands such as Cann, Wana Brands and 1906.

Edible Arrangements is a franchisor of stores that sell bouquet-shaped fruit baskets.

Edibles.com launched in Texas on Thursday and plans to expand into regulated markets in Florida and Georgia, according to a news release.

Some products will be available to be shipped where it’s legally allowed.

The company also plans to open a flagship store in Atlanta that will serve as a prototype for a limited franchising program, the release noted.

The platform will be led by Thomas Winstanley, who previously was chief marketing officer for East

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State bans, restrictions threaten hemp-derived THC market after Farm Bill boom

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1 week ago

March 21, 2025

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The freewheeling days for hemp-derived THC in America appear to be dwindling.

After a seven-year boom for hemp-derived THC products, lawmakers are pursuing blanket bans or disruptively strict regulations on intoxicating hemp products in about a dozen states, a situation that’s sowing deep anxieties across the industry, advocates and operators told MJBizDaily.

In contrast to the blanket ban on hemp-THC products imposed last fall in California, little of the nationwide hemp crackdown seems immediately poised to help struggling operators in the regulated marijuana industry who saw hemp as an unwelcome competitor playing by different rules.

In some of the new restrictive laws, hemp operators see the hand of an alcohol industry aware that young people are drinking less and keen to capture a

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