INDUSTRY

Cannabis Branding & Marketing

Bold Brands for an
Emerging Industry.

Why would a retail buyer give your product shelf space?

Why would a customer drive past another dispensary to shop at yours?

The answer starts with a clear reason to choose you. We help cannabis cultivators, product brands, and dispensaries find that difference and bring it to life through branding, packaging, websites, store graphics, and marketing.

Our cannabis work includes THC-infused cold brew can design, social media, and emails for Gus Dean Coffee; THC seltzer for Bad Habit Brewing Company; and branding and packaging for dispensaries.

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Slack Tide White Peach THC seltzer can designed by Moxie Creative for Bad Habit Brewing
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THC Beverage Branding Success Story: Slack Tide

The Challenge: As one of the first local breweries to enter the THC beverage market, Bad Habit Brewing needed packaging that would introduce an unfamiliar product category, build consumer confidence, and make a strong first impression.

The Solution: Building on years of successful packaging design for Bad Habit, Moxie developed a bold, recognizable identity for Slack Tide. A cohesive design system with distinct flavor variations gave the product its own personality and room to grow.

The Results:

  • 36% increase in taproom sales in second quarter
  • 13% average increase in distributor invoice
  • Silver American Advertising Award for packaging design

With Slack Tide, Bad Habit Brewing brought its established reputation for standout packaging into an emerging beverage category, creating a product identity built to make an impression.

Moxie Creative is the perfect combo of talent and value! They are easy to work with, professional, and flexible.

Laura H. | General Manager | Bad Habit Brewing Company

Experience With
Regulated Brands

Alcohol taught us how to build bold brands inside strict rules.

Before cannabis, we spent years designing for breweries and distilleries, where every label has to meet federal label regulations and every can has to stand out in a crowded cooler. Those same skills carry over: fitting required warnings and potency information into a design that still sells, building flavor systems that grow with a product line, and giving retail buyers a clear reason to say yes.

Our work includes:

  • Sip ‘N Pass Shareable Shine: a moonshine brand that grew to more than 200 retail locations across Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin
  • Third Street Brewhouse: award-winning branding, packaging, website, and marketing featuring hand-drawn illustrations
  • Little Round Still: award-winning spirits labels, including Barrel Select
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Cannabis Businesses We Work With

Cannabis brands have to earn trust in a tightly regulated market and still stand out on the shelf. We help you do both without cutting corners on compliance.

THC & Cannabis-Infused Beverages
Branding, cans, labels, and launch materials for THC seltzers, sodas, and mocktails, built on our brewery and distillery experience.
Edibles & Gummies
Brand identity and packaging systems that help adult customers recognize your products and understand flavors, formats, and potency.
Cultivators & Manufacturers
Branding and packaging for flower, pre-rolls, vapes, and infused products, creating a recognizable family across your product line.
Dispensaries & Retailers
Naming, branding, signage, websites, and local marketing for new stores, growing retailers, and additional locations. Campaigns, video, and in-store marketing built to bring new customers in and keep regulars coming back.
Hemp-Derived & THC Brands
Branding, packaging, and marketing support for hemp-derived product businesses preparing to launch or grow.

Product Branding & Packaging

A strong brand gives your whole product line a family resemblance. We build the name, logo, color palette, and voice first, so every new strain, edible, or vape you launch looks like it belongs to the same company and builds on the trust the last one earned.

Your package has to catch attention, explain the product, and give buyers and budtenders a story to share. We start with positioning that makes your product easy to understand and recommend, then bring it to life through naming, brand identity, packaging, and label systems that help customers sort through your flavors, formats, and potency.

Sell sheets, retail displays, and budtender materials carry that story into the sales conversation. Websites, social media, email, and photography keep it working as distribution grows.

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Our work includes:

Award-winning can designs with flavor-specific colors, custom THC, CBD, and CBG icons, and holographic printing

Branding and packaging for an Oklahoma-based premium medical cannabis brand

Wide range of branding and creative assets across print and digital channels, and limited-edition artwork and packaging for a premium solventless cannabis producer

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Dispensary Branding & Marketing

Your store needs a clear identity before customers walk through the door and an experience that gives them a reason to return. We help new and growing dispensaries develop names, logos, signage, interior graphics, and retail materials that make the business recognizable and welcoming.

Most customers choose a dispensary online before they ever walk in. We build awareness where they’re searching and scrolling, with a website and local SEO that put your store in front of nearby shoppers, organic social media and content that show what makes you different, and email and loyalty programs that keep them coming back.

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Our work includes:

Store signage, point-of-purchase materials, direct mail, print, digital advertising, and merchandise design for a retail dispensary brand with five locations across western Colorado

Branding, educational posters, vendor sell sheets, point-of-sale materials, and online product listings for a Colorado-based, woman-owned, sustainable cannabis cultivation facility

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Spend on What Matters Now

Cannabis businesses have plenty of places to spend money. We help you decide which investments will do the most for your business at its current stage.

For a product brand, that might mean a clear identity, packaging for your first products, and a sell sheet for retail buyers. A larger website, video library, or trade show booth can follow as distribution grows.

For a dispensary, the priority may be naming, branding, signage, and a website ready before opening day. Ongoing campaigns and customer retention programs can be built from there.

You get clear priorities, a defined scope, and costs you can plan around. Focused branding or packaging projects start at $5,000, with broader launches scoped around the products, locations, and materials you need.

Why Cannabis Businesses Choose
Moxie Creative

Our experience with brewery and distillery brands informs how we approach cannabis packaging. We make room for required label content from the start and coordinate with your packaging supplier on dielines and print specifications.

We work alongside your compliance team or attorney, who provides final approval of regulatory requirements.

Your brand has to work across package sizes, product varieties, signage, and retail materials. We consider readability, product organization, production requirements, and the customer experience throughout the design process.

For dispensaries, that means thinking through the whole visit: finding your location online, recognizing your storefront, and shopping inside.

Most major ad platforms restrict or prohibit cannabis advertising. Your marketing plan needs other ways to reach buyers and customers.

We build around search visibility, useful website content, email, organic social media, events, trade shows, and retail partnerships, with each channel evaluated for your products and audience.

For product brands, that can mean product sheets, budtender education materials, and support for retail partners. For dispensaries, it can mean local SEO, location pages, customer communications, and campaigns that give people a reason to visit again.

Brand strategy, design, packaging, websites, photography, video, signage, and marketing come together through one creative team. You have a partner who understands the larger picture and can keep your brand consistent as your business grows.

Our team has earned nearly 60 American Advertising Awards over the past three years, including an award for our Slack Tide packaging.

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We Are Part of Minnesota’s
Cannabis Community

Our team at Moxie Creative is proud to support Minnesota’s cannabis community.

Since early 2026, we’ve partnered with Canna Connect, an organization that brings Minnesota’s cannabis industry together through events, education, media, and networking.

The cannabis landscape is changing fast here in Minnesota and across the country. Staying involved with groups like Canna Connect and Women Employed in Cannabis keeps us close to those changes, and that’s what our clients count on us for.

Want to know how it all started? Read Kelly Cane’s story in Voyage Minnesota’s Community Highlights interview.

“We’re showing people what’s working in Minnesota cannabis, and we couldn’t do it without Moxie.”

Stephen Eigenmann | Founder & CEO | Canna Connect
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Moxie Creative at Canna Connect’s Cannabis & Community event in Duluth

Frequently Asked Questions About Cannabis Marketing

What does a cannabis marketing agency do?
A cannabis marketing agency helps product brands and retailers define their identity, reach customers, and support sales. At Moxie Creative, that can include strategy, naming, branding, packaging, websites, retail materials, content, and launch campaigns.
Can you help us launch a new dispensary?
Yes. We help you establish your brand and prepare the materials you need before opening, including naming, identity, signage, a website, and grand opening marketing. We also help prioritize what to do first and what to add as your business grows.
Do you design THC beverage packaging?
Yes. Our work includes Slack Tide THC seltzer for Bad Habit Brewing Company. We bring brewery and distillery packaging experience to THC beverages, creating recognizable product families with clear flavor and product information.
Can you help us reach retail buyers and budtenders?
Yes. We develop positioning, sell sheets, retail materials, and product talking points that help buyers understand where your brand fits and give budtenders a clear story to share with customers.
How do you approach cannabis packaging compliance?
We incorporate required content supplied or approved by your compliance team into the design and coordinate with your packaging supplier on production specifications. Your compliance team or legal counsel provides final approval of packaging and marketing requirements.
Can you support our marketing after launch?
Yes. We can continue with website updates, content, email, SEO, photography, video, retail materials, and campaigns as you introduce products, expand distribution, or open additional locations. We recommend a scope based on your priorities and budget.
What does cannabis branding cost?
Focused branding or packaging projects start at $5,000. A comprehensive launch involving brand identity, packaging, and a website typically ranges from $30,000 to $80,000, depending on complexity, the number of products, and the materials required. We define the scope and cost before work begins.
Do you work outside Minnesota?
Yes. Moxie Creative works with businesses throughout the Midwest and across the country.