Hedge Funds, Other Big Money Sources, Embracing Cannabis
With Canada legalizing cannabis this October 17th, and the United States making progress on the issue, we can expect more and more big...
Will Amazon Soon Be Selling Cannabis?
If you’re like me, and well, a lot of folks, you utilize Amazon to purchase a variety of products. While I don’t like the...
High Times Lists Top Ten Portland Cannabis Retail Stores
With a history of being cannabis friendly and 175 licensed retail stores as of July 6, 2018, Portland, Oregon, is one of the best places...
Border War: Americans Set to Invade Canada…for Cannabis
Rightwing provocateur Alex Jones recently received some well-deserved ridicule for claiming that American liberals were going to...
Another Study: Legalize Cannabis to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
The opioid epidemic is hurting communities all across the United States. No demographic is safe as Big Pharma has pushed addictive and...
Embracing Cannabis Can Help Candidates This November
Popular support for cannabis legalization has increased dramatically in recent years, with a strong majority of voters favoring ending...
Oregon County Sells Nearly $1,000 of Cannabis Per Resident
When most people think of a cannabis-friendly locale in the beautiful state of Oregon, most people probably think about the weird city of...
Canadian Investors Still Bullish on Legal Cannabis
While at the International Cannabis Business Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last month, it was easy to feel the excitement...
Cynthia Nixon Embraces Cannabis, Raffling a “Broad City” Bong
“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon has made cannabis legalization a major platform of her progressive, anti-establishment...
Portland Brewery Leading the CBD-Infused Beer Movement
Cannabis is certainly a hot, burgeoning market that may put a small dent in the alcohol market. Smart alcohol industry players realize...
Cannabis Commerce in Massachusetts Inches Closer to Reality
On July 1st, when Vermont officially legalized personal cannabis possession and cultivation, but not any marijuana sales,...
Will Mexico’s New President Legalize Cannabis?
While the cannabis community cheered Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s electoral victory in Canada, the historic election of...
Oregon Cannabis Prices Down, But Revenue Remains Substantial
Cannabis officially became legal to possess and cultivate in Oregon on July 1st, 2015. Three years later, the Beaver State has become a...
Following Oklahoma, Will Utah Legalize Medical Cannabis?
Support for medical cannabis reaches super-majority levels among voters across the nation, so it is hardly surprising when a state...
Ngaio Bealum Provides Some Tips to Newly Legal Vermont
Comedian Ngaio Bealum, the cannabis guru on Netflix’s “Cooking on High” and MC for the International Cannabis Business...
The Oregon Coast Experiencing Elevated Cannabis Sales
The Oregon coast provides breathtaking natural beauty, great seafood, and some of the highest per capita cannabis sales in the state....
Most Populous U.S. County Set to Legalize Cannabis Commerce
Licencing of cannabis businesses has been rather slow out of California since the state started accepting applications last December. The...
Cannabis Industry Eclipses Wine in Southern Oregon
There are several reasons to expect the cannabis industry in the United States to surpass the economic impact of the wine industry once...
Corona Owner Wins on Canadian Cannabis, Interested in the U.S.
Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona Beer and Robert Mondavi wine made big news when the company bought a stake of Canopy Browth,...
U.S. Farmers, Especially in Oregon and Kentucky, Look to Hemp
Cannabis gets most of the headlines, whether it is Canada ending prohibition, or GW Pharmaceuticals getting FDA approval for Epidiolex,...
Huge Primary Victories for the Cannabis Community this Week
While there are certainly many reasons to be concerned about the direction of the United States in many areas, it cannot be denied that...
Senate Minority Leader Introduces Cannabis Descheduling Bill
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer shocked the political world when he announced that he would introduce a bill to end federal cannabis...
U.S. Needs to Change Cannabis Border Policy
After a wonderful trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for an epic International Cannabis Business Conference, I heard a number of...
FDA Approves Epidiolex, It’s First Cannabis-Based Medicine
It was bound to happen eventually as the United States government couldn’t deny the medicinal benefits of the cannabis forever....
After an Epic Event in Vancouver, the ICBC Returns to Portland
Henry Rollins brought people to their feet, Canadian industry experts shared their knowledge, Canopy Rivers selected a young company to...
Del the Funky Homosapien Closes a Historic ICBC in Vancouver
After the conclusion of the first cannabis conference ever held in a country with a complete legalization law on the books,...
New York Makes a Big Move Towards Cannabis Legalization
Cannabis legalization in the U.S. states has primarily been led by voter initiatives as all of the states to legalize cannabis commerce...
National Review Conservative Backs the STATES Act
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Theodore Kupfer, or any conservative, writing for the National Review supports cannabis...
GOP Senate Justice Department Bill Protects Medical Cannabis
Cannabis legalization supporters were understandably displeased when Donald Trump appointed Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney...
PRØHBTD Building Cannabis Brands at the ICBC after $8M Raise
PRØHBTD, a media startup that has helped bring cannabis brands, and the culture overall, into the mainstream has just announced a...
U.S. Mayors Call for Descheduling, Form New Coalition
The United States Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan organization representing cities with populations of 30,000 or more, has called for...
STATES Act Would Move U.S. Cannabis Law Closer to Canada’s
Today is a great day for cannabis legalization supporters in the United States and around the world as the long-awaited, marijuana law...
New Jersey’s Top Doctor Promotes Medical Cannabis Program
Many of medical cannabis’ medicinal benefits cannot be disputed at this point. Can anyone honestly deny that cannabis can help...
U.S. Cannabis Companies Head to Canadian Securities Exchange
With legalization on the horizon in Canada and seemingly politically inevitable in the United States (while there is still much work left...
Congress Moves to Protect Medical Cannabis from Jeff Sessions, but What About Recreational?
It’s no secret what Jeff Sessions thinks about cannabis. Donald Trump’s “beleaguered” Attorney General famously...
U.S. Cannabis Industry Bolstered by Supreme Court’s Gambling Ruling
As a sports fan that likes to occasionally place a wager or two while I’m in Las Vegas, I was hoping that the United States Supreme...
Happy 4/20 Holiday Weekend – Let’s Legalize Cannabis!
Happy 4/20!
From all the folks at the International Cannabis Business Conference, to all our cannabis supporting brothers and sisters...
Legal Cannabis is Coming to the United States…Soon
They say when it rains it pours. In tandem with crazy weather patterns affecting populations across the globe, the cannabis industry is...
Anti-Cannabis Conservatives Seek U.S. Help to Stop Legalization in Canada, the ICBC to Have the Latest
Three Canadian Conservative Party senators who are charged with assisting the transition to legal cannabis for adult-use in their country...
Canada’s Cannabis Legalization Saved; Medical Protected in the U.S. for Now
Yesterday we wrote to you about the long and ugly process of creating policy, and the indispensable role advocacy and activism play in...
Critical Vote Today in Canada’s Parliament Impacts Cannabis Legalization
One thing I hear a lot from newcomers to the cannabis world, is “legalization is inevitable.” It’s a phrase that makes...
Prohibition Problems at the US-Canada Border for Non-Cannabis Industries
While the US lags behind Canada and other countries moving toward more friendly federal cannabis policies, some are predicting a negative...
New Report Details How Cannabis Is a $57 Billion Global Market
Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics released a new 65-page report this week detailing monetary estimates of cannabis’ future...
Cannabis Just Went Public on the Nasdaq
Today – Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 – marks a moment in history that is the telling of a new era. For the first time ever,...
