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Jeremy Berke

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Founder and editor-in-chief of @cultivatednews.bsky.social, reporting on the cannabis industry. MBA student at Columbia Business School. Formerly at Business Insider. Sign up here: www.cultivated.news

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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Two interesting charts in the recent Deloitte report on Canadian cannabis excise taxes: www.cannabis-council.ca/press-releas...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New York's Cannabis Advisory Board is meeting now. Chair Belluck says there will be a "robust" update on the Community Reinvestment Fund. totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=V...
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NYS Office of Cannabis Management
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Here's the backstory. State regulators say they're investigating brands over product 'inversion,' and industry experts say the lack of effective track-and-trace implementation is the root cause: mjbizdaily.com/lack-of-trac...
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Lack of track-and-trace system at heart of NY marijuana 'inversion'
More than two and a half years after the first legal adult-use marijuana sale, New York still has no functioning track-and-trace system.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Track-and-trace firm BioTrack responds to recent reporting that out-of-state cannabis products are being sold in NY. NY picked BioTrack as its track-and-trace provider in 2022. It's a crucial part of cannabis supply chain management. mjbizdaily.com/lack-of-trac...
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Lack of track-and-trace system at heart of NY marijuana 'inversion'
More than two and a half years after the first legal adult-use marijuana sale, New York still has no functioning track-and-trace system.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The case is Hybrid NYC LLC v New York State Cannabis Control board. Statement from founder Joanne Wilson here:
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New York cannabis dispensary chain Gotham has filed lawsuit against the state's Office of Cannabis Management over what they call an "unconstitutional mandate" in the MRTA that requires all NY cannabis companies to execute a labor peace agreement to obtain or renew a license.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in hot water over steering $10 million of a legal Medicaid settlement into his wife’s charity — which then went to two organizations that successfully fought legalization last year. www.cultivated.news/p/desantis-a...
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DeSantis’ anti-cannabis campaign in hot water | Cultivated
Plus, Rhode Island approves cannabis regs 🌿
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How will tariffs impact the #cannabis industry? Well, it's not good. Grow lights, packaging, rolling papers, and vape hardware are mostly manufactured in China and Asia. Read the latest @cultivatednews.bsky.social: www.cultivated.news/p/how-will-t...
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How will tariffs impact the cannabis industry? | Cultivated
Trump's tariffs could create new challenges for the cannabis industry, adding economic pressure to an already struggling market and impacting state-level production.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our March in review @cultivatednews.bsky.social
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Did Canadians consume cannabis more widely, more frequently and at younger ages as it became more accessible and affordable? The answer was mostly no. From @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social theconversation.com/cannabis-ret...
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Cannabis retail expansion in Canada came with only a small uptick in the number of consumers
Increased usage among women and older adults during 2019-2023 seemed related more to falling prices than to the expanding number of stores.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In today's @cultivatednews.bsky.social The most profitable legal weed states — if the federal government legalizes — are those with more laissez-faire regulations, according to an analysis from UC Davis economist Robin Goldstein. Read it here: www.cultivated.news/p/states-tha...
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States that will lead legal weed, according to an economist | Cultivated
Discover which U.S. states are poised to become cannabis economic powerhouses under potential federal legalization, with insights from a leading economist.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
2) The difference in rhetoric from Republican governors vs Democratic governors on cannabis is immense. While DeSantis takes money from Philip Morris to fight legalization and Youngkin vetoes legislation, Shapiro is going on a full-court press to get legalization passed in his home state.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
And two thought bubbles, from me: 1) In his veto statement, Youngkin lists a bunch of embellished and poorly researched public health impacts from legalization. But constraining supply isn't an effective tool to rectifying these issues. Taxation and regulation is better.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In today's @cultivatednews.bsky.social: 🌿Virginia might be for lovers, but it's not for cannabis 🤝 Glass House gets into hemp biz 🥊 Minnesota publishes proposed regs 🤔 Arizona rules all hemp must be sold in dispensaries Read it below and be sure to subscribe. t.co/Gx8mHc9ezL
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If other states follow suit, that’s a massive shift in how hemp beverage companies are able to do business, and brings the US system more in line with Canada.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Arizona’s attorney general ruled that all Hemp-THC products including beverages and edibles must be sold within state-regulated dispensaries. www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Attorney General Mayes Warns Retailers and Law Enforcement About Illegal THC Product Sales
PHOENIX – Attorney General Kris Mayes today issued letters to Arizona law enforcement agencies and retailers, making it clear that the sale of THC-infused products without a valid marijuana establishm...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In today's @cultivatednews.bsky.social, Tennessee weighs a 'pot for potholes' bill to legalize and tax recreational cannabis to pay for road and infrastructure repairs. But Republican lawmakers in the deep-Rep state are against it. www.cultivated.news/p/tennessee-...
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Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains may be getting a little smokier | Cultivated
Tennessee lawmakers propose cannabis legalization to fund road repairs, aiming to turn pot revenue into pothole solutions in this legislative effort.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Nice day climbing and skiing with my brother
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
You don't say. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/10/f...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Driving while high is hard to detect. States are racing to find a good tool www.npr.org/2025/03/10/n...
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Driving while high is hard to detect. States are racing to find a good tool
Police are experimenting with various methods to determine whether drivers are under the influence of marijuana, but unlike alcohol, a number of factors make that difficult to know with certainty.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The president, who last week told Congress he had "stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America," said today that the government had arrested a student because of his disfavored opinions. "This is the first arrest of many to come," he said.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
PM Justin Trudeau is on his way out of office, to be replaced by Mark Carney. His crowning achievements of nearly 10 years in office? Cannabis legalization, according to a recent poll. Read the latest @cultivatednews.bsky.social www.cultivated.news/p/legalizing...
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Legalizing cannabis Justin Trudeau’s biggest accomplishment as PM | Cultivated
Canada's cannabis legalization under Justin Trudeau marked a pivotal policy shift, transforming the nation's approach to cannabis and setting a global precedent.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Until then, they'll use Canada — with its coherent federal regulations — as a testing ground for their products until they're able to bring them to the US.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
But they also said that attitudes among beer distributors and wholesalers are shifting, as beer sales decline — even in the last six months. They want in. Still, they haven't seen a "scalable" opportunity in the US quite yet.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Execs, including incoming CEO Michael Spillane, said the regulatory environment doesn't give them much comfort, given that the Farm Bill could be renegotiated this year and could wipe out the intoxicating hemp industry.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sam Adams maker Boston Beer Co execs revealed how big beer companies are thinking about the cannabis and hemp-derived beverage industry in the US. In short, they're not quite there yet, I write in today's @cultivatednews.bsky.social. www.cultivated.news/p/boston-bee...
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Boston Beer Co isn’t ready to mass-produce hemp drinks in the US — yet | Cultivated
Boston Beer Co's hemp drink plans, earnings from Ayr, Jushi, and TerrAscend: A comprehensive look at the latest cannabis industry developments and financial insights.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Welcome to our new weekly wrap-up. This Week In Cannabis News, powered by Dutchie. www.cultivated.news/p/this-week-...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Either way, he had the opportunity to use his success in freeing Marc Fogel to push a broader message — it's telling that he didn't.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It’s possible his posts were simply a way to neutralize Democratic support. It’s also possible he was courting the young male crowd, who are overwhelmingly in support of legalization.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump posted in support of the legalization in Florida, federal banking reform, and rescheduling during the campaign last year but stopped short of endorsing full federal legalization.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump missed a big opportunity to push cannabis reform on the biggest state when he invited Marc Fogel, who was imprisoned in Russia for 17 grams of cannabis and freed last month, to his Wednesday night joint address in front of Congress. www.cultivated.news/p/trump-s-mi...
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Trump’s missed opportunity | Cultivated
During Wednesday’s address to Congress, President Trump could have pointed out his success in freeing Marc Fogel and shared how he planned to encourage his Administration and Congress to come up with ...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
As always, read it and subscribe here. www.cultivated.news/p/ny-lawmake...
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NY lawmakers want to allow dispensaries to sell intoxicating hemp products | Cultivated
A new bill introduced in the New York State Senate on Monday would allow legal dispensaries to sell intoxicating hemp products containing THC.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The bill would: -Define THC under New York law to include all Delta-9 THC derived from hemp as well as traditional cannabis. -Not include other forms, like Delta-8 or Delta-10. -Measure total THC percentage by dry weight in each product.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
In today's @cultivatednews.bsky.social, a new bill introduced in the New York State on Monday would allow legal dispensaries to sell intoxicating hemp products containing THC.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our @cultivatednews.bsky.social Sunday Read is a guest analysis from @deepakanand.bsky.social on what the recent German elections mean for the country's experiment with cannabis legalization. www.cultivated.news/p/what-the-g...
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What the German election results mean for the future of cannabis
Although the election results represent a shift from the previous government's progress on cannabis policy, the outcome could have been significantly worse, writes Deepak Anand.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In today's @cultivatednews.bsky.social: 👀 NYT investigates New York's social equity fund 💰 Green Thumb Industries $GTBIF crushes earnings 🍹 Trulieve drops a line of hemp-THC drinks And much, much more. Read it here and be sure to subscribe! www.cultivated.news/p/false-prom...
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False promises and pitfalls of New York’s social equity fund | Cultivated
When New York legalized cannabis in 2021, it charted, or at least attempted to, a different path from other states. The New York Times investigated the failures of the state’s social equity fund.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Payload Space team has built a great business. $1.8 million of revenue for a small digital media startup, up from $1 million in '23, is fantastic. They just raised $1.4 million to expand into new, related verticals. www.axios.com/2025/02/25/d...
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Defense news startup Payload raises cash, rebrands
The funds will be used to expand Arkaea Media to new verticals across the defense industrial space, including nuclear energy and technology.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Finally solved: how the body's own marijuana spreads through the brain www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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Finally solved: how the body's own marijuana spreads through the brain
Since its discovery thirty years ago, it remained a mystery: how does the body’s own marijuana move between nerve cells in the brain? Mario van der Stelt and his research group have now uncovered the ...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As Pennsylvania inches toward legalizing recreational cannabis, lawmakers propose selling it in state-owned dispensaries similar to state liquor stores @theconversation.com theconversation.com/as-pennsylva...
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As Pennsylvania inches toward legalizing recreational cannabis, lawmakers propose selling it in state-owned dispensaries similar to state liquor stores
Recreational cannabis legalization has both Democratic and Republican champions in Harrisburg, but they face significant political hurdles.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
N.J. medical cannabis patients feel betrayed as legal weed business booms www.nj.com/marijuana/20...
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N.J. medical cannabis patients feel betrayed as legal weed business booms
Medical cannabis patients say it's a promise broken. Their struggles are worse since N.J. legalized weed, and they're banned from growing their own medicine.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is interesting: The IRS owes Jushi, a cannabis company, $6 million in COVID-era ERC tax credits. Jushi sold them to a third party for $5.1 million to raise money. mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-mso...
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Cannabis MSO Jushi benefiting from little-used IRS tax-credit program
The IRS owes Jushi Holdings about $6 million in Employee Retention Credit claims, but the cannabis operator didn't want to wait for it.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
There's now a ton of regulatory uncertainty for these transactions. But smarter people than I am have told me they believe Germany's medical cannabis regulations will remain in place — but no one really knows at this point how the new coalition will shake out.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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High Tide Pauses Acquisition of Purecan GmbH and Explores Alternative Arrangements with Purecan to Enter the German Medical Cannabis Market
/PRNewswire/ - High Tide Inc. ("High Tide" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: HITI) (TSXV: HITI) (FSE: 2LYA), the high-impact, retail-forward enterprise built to...
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said he wants to roll back legalization. In Monday's @cultivatednews.bsky.social, I wrote that uncertainty may put some of the medical supply agreements that Canadian firms have signed in jeopardy. Today, High Tide said it was pausing a planned deal.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
But I do think people read what I write because it’s authentic, and I want to nurture that connection whether or not you agree with everything I say and write.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Of course, different newsrooms have different policies. If I return to mainstream media, I would of course follow those policies and keep my personal viewpoint out of my work.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Because I get asked about this: I’m pretty open about my politics and distaste for Trump and his rhetoric. As an independent journalist, I feel I would be doing readers a disservice if they weren’t aware of where I’m coming from. By posting about this, I am being transparent as possible.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The first results from Health Canada’s Cannabis Data Gathering Program found that nearly half of the 50 samples of legal cannabis tested had THC levels under 80% of their label claim.
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Health Canada releases first results from cannabis data gathering program from legal and illegal markets
Learn about the Health Canada data gathering program and its findings on legal and illegal cannabis THC levels and safety.
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Jeremy Berke @jberke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
But Merz has bigger fish to fry — namely, EU security in light of Trump's threats. Rolling back legalization is difficult, and unpopular. More in @cultivatednews.bsky.social www.cultivated.news/p/germany-go...
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Germany goes backwards | Cultivated
German Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a shaky victory in Sunday’s national election. His party won 28.5% support, and will need to form a coalition with other parties, including, potentially, ...
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