Omar Sacirbey

Boston

Magazine Editor at Marijuana Business Daily

Contributor at Hemp Industry Daily

Journalist, Writer, Editor and former diplomat.

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Articles

2025 MJBiz Factbook, cannabis industry’s leading data source, now available

2 months ago | newsbudz.com | Omar Sacirbey

NewsBudz is a marijuana and medical cannabis news app. The site delivers a daily feed of the latest cannabis news. We aggregate over 30 of the web's best sources for news about marijuana, hemp and legalization to keep you informed. Stay on top of the latest news headlines, trends and developments worldwide around recreational and medical marijuana. Sit back and relax, while you read learn and share. On the web or your mobile device, NewsBudz is your cannabis news stream.
What’s causing the decline in M&A activity in the cannabis industry?

Mar 25, 2025 | newsbudz.com | Omar Sacirbey

NewsBudz is a marijuana and medical cannabis news app. The site delivers a daily feed of the latest cannabis news. We aggregate over 30 of the web's best sources for news about marijuana, hemp and legalization to keep you informed. Stay on top of the latest news headlines, trends and developments worldwide around recreational and medical marijuana. Sit back and relax, while you read learn and share. On the web or your mobile device, NewsBudz is your cannabis news stream.
Cannabis testing lab fraud can be curbed if industry is ‘part of the solution’

Feb 13, 2025 | newsbudz.com | Omar Sacirbey

NewsBudz is a marijuana and medical cannabis news app. The site delivers a daily feed of the latest cannabis news. We aggregate over 30 of the web's best sources for news about marijuana, hemp and legalization to keep you informed. Stay on top of the latest news headlines, trends and developments worldwide around recreational and medical marijuana. Sit back and relax, while you read learn and share. On the web or your mobile device, NewsBudz is your cannabis news stream.
How American cannabis cultivators can expand into Germany

Feb 4, 2025 | newsbudz.com | Omar Sacirbey

NewsBudz is a marijuana and medical cannabis news app. The site delivers a daily feed of the latest cannabis news. We aggregate over 30 of the web's best sources for news about marijuana, hemp and legalization to keep you informed. Stay on top of the latest news headlines, trends and developments worldwide around recreational and medical marijuana. Sit back and relax, while you read learn and share. On the web or your mobile device, NewsBudz is your cannabis news stream.
Opportunities abound with distressed marijuana businesses - but use caution

Jan 8, 2025 | newsbudz.com | Omar Sacirbey

NewsBudz is a marijuana and medical cannabis news app. The site delivers a daily feed of the latest cannabis news. We aggregate over 30 of the web's best sources for news about marijuana, hemp and legalization to keep you informed. Stay on top of the latest news headlines, trends and developments worldwide around recreational and medical marijuana. Sit back and relax, while you read learn and share. On the web or your mobile device, NewsBudz is your cannabis news stream.
Sundie Seefried looks at the evolving cannabis banking landscape

Oct 20, 2024 | mjbizdaily.com | Omar Sacirbey

(This story first appeared in the September-October issue of MJBizMagazine.)Sundie Seefried burst onto the cannabis industry scene 10 years ago as the CEO of Partner Colorado Credit Union, where she launched Safe Harbor Financial, a program to service the new marijuana businesses popping up across the state after voters legalized adult use.
Ohio recreational marijuana sales near $90 million in 7 weeks

Oct 4, 2024 | mjbizdaily.com | Omar Sacirbey

Barely seven weeks since the launch of Ohio’s recreational marijuana market, sales have reached almost $90 million. Between Aug. 6 – when adult-use sales began in Ohio – and Sept. 28, sales totaled $87.1 million, according to the latest report from the state’s Division of Cannabis Control. The report also found that recreational retailers sold 10,213 pounds of recreational flower and 1,361,146 units of manufactured products.
Arkansas high court breathes life into marijuana ballot initiative

Oct 3, 2024 | mjbizdaily.com | Omar Sacirbey

A ballot initiative that would significantly expand Arkansas’ medical marijuana program is still alive after the state’s Supreme Court ordered a key government official to resume counting roughly 18,000 signatures that he allegedly declined to count. Wednesday’s ruling by the high court comes two days after Secretary of State John Thurston announced that Arkansans for Patient Access had submitted only 88,040 valid signatures – 2,664 signatures shy of the 90,704 required.
Arkansas medical cannabis group sues over rejected ballot initiative

Oct 2, 2024 | mjbizdaily.com | Omar Sacirbey

Medical cannabis advocates in Arkansas filed a lawsuit challenging the secretary of state’s decision not to certify a ballot initiative that would expand the MMJ program. The suit, filed Tuesday, was spurred by Secretary of State John Thurston’s ruling the previous day that Arkansans for Patient Access’ campaign was roughly 2,600 valid signatures short of what’s needed to qualify the initiative for the November ballot, according to the Associated Press.
'Legalize it,' presidential candidate Harris says of marijuana

Sep 30, 2024 | mjbizdaily.com | Omar Sacirbey

If there was any uncertainty about where she stands on U.S. marijuana prohibition, Vice President Kamala Harris cleared the air by declaring that MJ should be federally legalized. It was Harris’ first public stance on the issue since she became the Democratic Party’s choice to run for the presidency against Republican nominee Donald Trump.