International Cannabis Business Conference Blog

Cannabis Companies Look to Food and Beverage for Talent

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 24, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland.

Canadian cannabis companies are gearing up to provide for millions of new customers when October 17th rolls around, creating jobs and paying higher salaries to well-trained employees. As marijuana businesses...

Canadian Company Province Brands Brews First Cannabis Beer

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 23, 2018. Posted in Policy.

It’s clear that Canada has been leading the global cannabis market in many regards. Starting with a federal medical marijuana policy that has allowed Canadian companies to export to other nations...

Cannabis Company Tilray Sees Early Big Gains on Nasdaq

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 23, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland.

In full disclosure, when I first read that Canadian cannabis company Tilray was going public on the Nasdaq, becoming the first cannabis IPO on the U.S. Stock market and just the third such company even...

Nova Scotia to Be the First to Mix Cannabis and Alcohol Sales

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 20, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Portland.

“Regulate cannabis like beer and wine” is a pragmatic position backed by a lot of legalization advocates these days and, while the substances certainly aren’t identical, similar regulations...

Cannabis Stocks Like Tilray Are Here to Stay, Prohibitionists

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 20, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland.

After decades of global prohibition, cannabis companies are making history as they move forward in our current international patchwork system of various cannabis laws and regulations. With October 17th...

Struggling Oregon Town May Turn to Cannabis for Revenue

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 19, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

It cannot be disputed that the Oregon adult-use cannabis system creates jobs and generates revenue. While the Measure 91 legalization was primarily focused on ending unnecessary arrests and better...

Oregon Medical Cannabis Program Needs to Do More for Patients

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 19, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Medical, Politics.

In many ways, Oregon is a leader on cannabis policy in the United States. The state was the first to decriminalize personal possession in 1973, was an early medical state in 1998, the third to vote...

How Will Trump Admin React if Mexico Legalizes Cannabis?

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 18, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, Politics.

While the global cannabis community awaits October 17th, the day cannabis becomes fully legal in Canada, some are understandably worried about how legalization will impact people at the Canada-U.S....

Oregon to Implement Recreational Cannabis Harvesting Rules

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 18, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

From a macro level, the Oregon cannabis industry is doing great. Governor Kate Brown states that 19,000 new jobs have been created thanks to legal marijuana and the Oregon Revenue Department statistics...