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,...
ICBC Kauai Was One for the Ages, onto San Francisco and Berlin and…
Written by Anthony Johnson on . 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...
Germany Inches Closer to Adult Use Cannabis
Written by Amber Iris Langston on . Posted in Cultural, ICBC Berlin, Politics.
For citizens of Germany, legislation works a little differently. Theirs is a parliamentary body made of multiple parties – not just two primary bodies like the Democrats and Republicans –...
Canadian Cannabis Companies Now Exporting to Germany
Written by Amber Iris Langston on . Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Vancouver.
The Land of Ideas (Germany), is getting a creative boost – legal cannabis from overseas. Canadian cannabis colossus Aurora, based in Alberta, announced their first shipment of the medicine to...
American Cannabis Activists Irk German Drug Czar
Written by Amber Iris Langston on . Posted in ICBC Berlin.
Marlene Mortler, the Drug Czar of Germany, sounds like she has taken a cue from the garbled logic of US Drug Enforcement Administration and Kevin Sabet of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a man I think...
German Cannabis Expert, Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen, Starts Hunger Strike
Written by Anthony Johnson on . Posted in ICBC Berlin.
Germany has made great strides improving its cannabis laws in recent years, but there is still so much work to be done, as too many patients are still without safe access to a safe medicine. There was...
German Cannabis Community Celebrates Another Great Hanfparade
Written by Amber Iris Langston on . Posted in ICBC Berlin.
Despite a little cold and rainy weather, a great crowd turned out this year for the 21st annual Berlin Hanfparade (or “Hemp Parade”) last Saturday, August 12th. According to Michael Knodt,...
Investors Are Wisely Looking Towards Europe
Written by Amber Iris Langston on . Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin.
Forward-thinking American business investors have had their eyes on the cannabis market for a few years now, looking critically at emerging laws and technologies in traditional places like Colorado,...
Leafly-Sponsored After-Party Caps Off Historic First Day of the Berlin ICBC
Written by Anthony Johnson on . Posted in ICBC Berlin.
It was very fitting that the first day of the International Cannabis Business Conference in Berlin focused heavily on medical cannabis research as the German medicinal marijuana system just recently...