ICBC Portland Archives - Page 3 of 16 - International Cannabis Business Conference

CBD Joints May Help Tobacco Smokers Kick the Habit

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 18, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Science.

Anyone who has ever quit smoking tobacco or tried, or know someone battling tobacco addiction, understands the difficulty of kicking those cancer sticks to the curb. The nicotine in tobacco is so addictive...

Forbes: Cannabis Sales Booming in Nevada

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 17, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

Nevada has a history of pushing vices, with legalized gambling, prostitution, and drinking alcohol in public. It shouldn’t surprise folks that the Silver State, home of Las Vegas AKA Sin City,...

Coca-Cola Seriously Contemplating the Cannabis Industry

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 17, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland.

Hedge fund legends. Big Pharma. Big Tobacco. Big Alcohol. The list of new and possible cannabis industry participants keeps growing and growing. And now, potentially the biggest interest yet: Big Soda....

Senate Candidate Gary Johnson Discloses Cannabis Investments

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 14, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

Normally, the financial disclosures of a Libertarian Senate candidate wouldn’t be a big deal, even if it revealed investments in cannabis businesses. However, Gary Johnson, the former two-term...

We Officially Flipped Senator Dianne Feinstein on Cannabis

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 14, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, Politics.

Politics can make strange bedfellows and it has long been extremely weird that California was represented by an anti-cannabis United States Senator, the extremely powerful Dianne Feinstein. While...

Committee Passes Bill to License More Medical Cannabis Grows

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 13, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, Politics, Science.

Anyone that has seen the marijuana grown by the United States government for the few remaining federally-recognized patients and the limited research projects approved over the years, knows that it...

Cannabis Cafes Coming to Oregon, Learn the Latest at the ICBC

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 12, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics, Social.

Despite legalizing cannabis in 2014, Oregon still has a lot of work left to do regarding marijuana, from doing better to ensure that low-income patients have safe access to automatically expunging old...

Time Running Out for ICBC Mom & Pop Pitch & Early Bird Tickets

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 12, 2018. Posted in Business, Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics.

There is still time to get “early bird” tickets to the world’s premier B2B cannabis event, the International Cannabis Business Conference in Portland, Oregon, this September 27th-28th,...

Judge: Dismiss Josephine County’s Attack on Cannabis Laws

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 11, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

Many Oregon cannabis industry observers, including myself and the Medford Mail Tribune Editorial Board, knew that Josephine County was wasting the hard-earned money of taxpayers by challenging...