International Cannabis Business Conference Blog

Following Oklahoma, Will Utah Legalize Medical Cannabis?

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 4, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, Medical, Politics.

Support for medical cannabis reaches super-majority levels among voters across the nation, so it is hardly surprising when a state legalizes medicinal use. However, that strong support in the polls...

Happy Independence Day from the ICBC!

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 4, 2018. Posted in Cultural, Politics.

The International Cannabis Business Conference started just four years ago with the goal of bringing together business, politics, and culture in a way that would provide the cannabis community...

Ngaio Bealum Provides Some Tips to Newly Legal Vermont

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 3, 2018. Posted in Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics.

Comedian Ngaio Bealum, the cannabis guru on Netflix’s “Cooking on High” and MC for the International Cannabis Business Conference, obviously knows his way around the various ways to...

The Oregon Coast Experiencing Elevated Cannabis Sales

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 3, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics, Social.

The Oregon coast provides breathtaking natural beauty, great seafood, and some of the highest per capita cannabis sales in the state. Local retail stores seem to believe that tourists were a big boost...

Most Populous U.S. County Set to Legalize Cannabis Commerce

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 2, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

Licencing of cannabis businesses has been rather slow out of California since the state started accepting applications last December. The deliberate pace caused for early economic projections to be...

Cannabis Industry Eclipses Wine in Southern Oregon

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 2, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

There are several reasons to expect the cannabis industry in the United States to surpass the economic impact of the wine industry once federal cannabis prohibition ends. Canada’s cannabis industry,...

Corona Owner Wins on Canadian Cannabis, Interested in the U.S.

Written by Anthony Johnson on June 29, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland.

Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona Beer and Robert Mondavi wine made big news when the company bought a stake of Canopy Browth, the largest cannabis producer in Canada and the first cannabis...

U.S. Farmers, Especially in Oregon and Kentucky, Look to Hemp

Written by Anthony Johnson on June 29, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics.

Cannabis gets most of the headlines, whether it is Canada ending prohibition, or GW Pharmaceuticals getting FDA approval for Epidiolex, medical use passing in the (very) conservative state of Oklahoma,...

Huge Primary Victories for the Cannabis Community this Week

Written by Anthony Johnson on June 28, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, Politics.

While there are certainly many reasons to be concerned about the direction of the United States in many areas, it cannot be denied that the cannabis community is experiencing a golden age of political...