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CBD Joints May Help Tobacco Smokers Kick the Habit

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 18, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, Business, 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 that only 6% of smokers are able to quit each year, but there may be a promising tool...

Forbes: Cannabis Sales Booming in Nevada

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

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, was selling a large amount of cannabis. However, sales have far exceeded expectations, providing...

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. If there were any doubts that cannabis has gone mainstream and is going more mainstream by...

Senate Candidate Gary Johnson Discloses Cannabis Investments

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

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 governor of New Mexico has to be taken seriously in the Land of Enchantment, even though his...

We Officially Flipped Senator Dianne Feinstein on Cannabis

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

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 Oregon paved the way for decriminalization in the early 1970s, California really led the charge...

Committee Passes Bill to License More Medical Cannabis Grows

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

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 is of extremely poor quality. The Medical Cannabis Research Act (MCRA), sponsored by Republican...

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

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

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 convictions (without making people pay extra money and jumping through unnecessary bureaucratic...

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

Written by Anthony Johnson on September 12, 2018. Posted in Cultural, ICBC Portland, Business, 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, and for small craft cannabis businesses to apply for the $10,000 ICBC Mom and Pop Pitch...

Judge: Dismiss Josephine County’s Attack on Cannabis Laws

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

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 Oregon’s adult-use and medical legalization laws in court. Everything that county officials...

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CBD Joints May Help Tobacco Smokers Kick the Habit

Forbes: Cannabis Sales Booming in Nevada

Coca-Cola Seriously Contemplating the Cannabis Industry

Senate Candidate Gary Johnson Discloses Cannabis Investments

We Officially Flipped Senator Dianne Feinstein on Cannabis

Committee Passes Bill to License More Medical Cannabis Grows

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

Judge: Dismiss Josephine County’s Attack on Cannabis Laws

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