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Kristen Nichols

Kristen is a Denver-based reporter for Marijuana Business Daily specializing in the hemp and CBD industries. Previously, she worked at the Associated Press for nearly 20 years. She started covering the marijuana legalization movement in 2009 – when medical stores started popping up around Denver – and wrote about the state’s first legal hemp harvest. Kristen also covered agriculture and politics in Maryland and her home state of Georgia.


Clock ticking to debate future of hemp extracts

CBD may have strong benefits – but does it need help from other cannabinoids? The question is one of the hottest topics in cannabis as extractors see the markets shifting for different kinds of extracts. Beauty retailing behemoth Sephora announced earlier this year that it would stock only full- or broad-spectrum CBD products. Some cheered, […]

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Neptune losses widen, even as revenue ticks up

Neptune Wellness Solutions, a Laval, Quebec-based CBD extractor and manufacturer, reported revenue of $16 million (CAD $21.4 million) for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, up 390% from the same period a year ago.

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Tilray revenue hit by lower recreational, medical cannabis sales

Nanaimo, British Columbia-based Tilray halved its net loss to $81.7 million for the second quarter ended June 30, a substantial improvement over the previous quarter’s $184.1 million deficit. However, the cannabis and hemp producer reported lower sequential revenue in most of its important categories. Tilray trades as TLRY on the Nasdaq and reports in U.S. […]

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