International Cannabis Business Conference Blog

State of California Moves Toward Protection of Cannabis Brands

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 18, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco.

In a move bound to make a wave-making impact, the State of California has announced a decision which could eventually impact cannabis businesses nationwide. The California Secretary of State’s...

Legal California Cannabis Could Save the Owls (and Help Our Environment)

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 12, 2018. Posted in ICBC San Francisco, Science.

When people ask what brought me to cannabis, I harken back to the mid-90s when I was a student at the University of Missouri. I was studying in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources...

Compliance – and the Dangers of Not Doing It, In California (or Anywhere)

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 11, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

Compliance. Have you heard of it? It’s a thing. An important thing. As a political animal myself, I can enjoy some pretty boring things more than most, such as reading 200 pages of statutory regulations...

Bong and a Bock? California Craft Beer Industry Embraces Cannabis

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 10, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco.

I live in Portland, so I am lucky in a lot of ways. I have a cannabis dispensary just around the block, and in typical Portland fashion, there’s a small, local brewpub just across the street from...

Cannabis Sanctuary State? California Looking to Strike Back Against Sessions

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 9, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

Last week’s announcement by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to rescind protections on state-legal cannabis programs sent a shockwave through the fledgling industry around the country. Specifically,...

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),...

California Officials Respond to Jeff Sessions

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 5, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

If you are in the cannabis industry, you probably heard the news yesterday which sent waves of fear and confusion throughout the country for every player in the marijuana market. Cannabis stocks took...

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...