A Look Back at the Cannabis Financing Industry for 2025 and a Look Forward to 2026
A Year in Review
2025 was another turbulent year in the cannabis lending space, marked by a series of distinct waves.
The year opened with several long-standing cannabis lenders exiting the industry. Momentum briefly returned as the Federal Reserve lowered benchmark rates.
Then things tightened again when …
The Coming Cannabis Debt Crunch
Across the U.S. cannabis sector, roughly $6 billion of debt is scheduled to mature by the end of 2026, with the five largest multi-state cannabis operators carrying about $3.4 billion of that load.
After years of limited access to traditional bank loans, many cannabis companies leaned on high-cost private debt. Those maturities are now clustering into …
When it comes to cannabis financing for real estate, equipment and operations things are constantly in a state of flux.
We recently highlighted lenders that have exited cannabis lending, but don’t fret, we are on the hunt and finding more lenders every month.
Let’s talk about our new cannabis lenders onboarded in Q3 2025.
New Cannabis Financing Lender Onboarded for New York …
If there is one thing we’ve learned after six plus years in the cannabis financing industry is that it is a huge game of whack-a-mole.
We work with lenders that only serve metro Denver or Metro Boston, or east of the Mississippi but only for dispensaries for example.
The list of what lenders will fund and where they will fund cannabis …
If there is one thing we’ve learned after six plus years in the cannabis financing industry is that it is a huge game of whack-a-mole.
We work with lenders that only serve metro Denver or Metro Boston, or east of the Mississippi but only for dispensaries for example.
The list of what lenders will fund and where they will fund cannabis …
