Author: Anthony Johnson

Jeff Sessions Fallout: Dana Rohrabacher Interviewed

Written by Anthony Johnson on January 8, 2018. Posted in Politics.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in an attempt to stifle the cannabis legalization movement by repealing the Obama Administration’s Cole Memo (along with the lesser-known Ogden and Wilkinson Memos),...

Cannabis Commerce in California Means Regulatory Compliance

Written by Anthony Johnson on January 4, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

The early lines at newly-licensed California cannabis retail outlets are just a preview of the vast economic opportunities available in the Golden State. However, in California, which led our recent...

Cannabis Czar Lori Ajax Interviewed Ahead of the ICBC in San Francisco

Written by Anthony Johnson on January 3, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you know that California just legalized cannabis commerce this year. California’s influence, with nearly 40 million people and the world’s 6th largest...

Entrepreneur Magazine Covers ICBC Kauai

Written by Anthony Johnson on December 15, 2017. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Kauai, ICBC San Francisco, ICBC Vancouver.

The International Cannabis Business Conference (ICBC), since its very first event in September of 2014 in Portland, Oregon, has grown and expanded with the cannabis industry, bringing together entrepreneurs,...

Tulsi Gabbard Urges Medical Marijuana Research to Combat Opioid Crisis

Written by Anthony Johnson on December 13, 2017. Posted in Medical, Politics.

Just a few days after welcoming attendees to the International Cannabis Business Conference in Kauai, Hawai’i Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard continued her effort in the fight for sensible cannabis...

ICBC Kauai Was One for the Ages, onto San Francisco and Berlin and…

Written by Anthony Johnson on December 5, 2017. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Kauai, ICBC San Francisco, ICBC Vancouver, Politics.

Yesterday’s Kauai Cannabis Classic golf tournament, sponsored by Leafly and Cannafornia, capped off a truly amazing International Cannabis Business Conference, that saw around 500 marijuana industry...

Tulsi Gabbard Talks Marijuana Policy with Smell the Truth

Written by Anthony Johnson on November 28, 2017. Posted in ICBC Kauai, Politics.

A veteran of the Iraq War, Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard was a rising star in Democratic politics before she resigned as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to wholeheartedly back the...

Candid Conversation About Cannabis with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard

Written by Anthony Johnson on November 24, 2017. Posted in ICBC Kauai, Politics.

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is serving her third term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Hawaii’s Second District. She previously served on the Honolulu City Council, and...

Cannafornia’s Paul King on Cannabis Cultivation, DJ Muggs & More

Written by Anthony Johnson on November 22, 2017. Posted in Business, ICBC Kauai, ICBC San Francisco.

Paul King decided to “go big or go home,” when he started his cannabis cultivation business in California, and he indeed “went big” with 150k sq ft of greenhouse cultivation...