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 . 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 . 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 . 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...
Time Running Out for ICBC Mom & Pop Pitch & Early Bird Tickets
Written by Anthony Johnson on . 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 . 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...
U.S. May License More Cannabis Cultivators and Researchers
Written by Anthony Johnson on . Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics, Science.
Whenever someone hears that the United States government maintains a marijuana farm that provides medicine for a few federal patients and research programs, it may seem like a tall tale, but it is...
Trump Allies Refute Administration’s Secret War on Cannabis
Written by Anthony Johnson on . Posted in ICBC Portland, Politics.
Dominic Holden’s Buzzfeed article revealing that the Donald Trump White House is choreographing a “secret war” on cannabis that calls upon various government agencies to publicize...
Trump’s Secret War on Cannabis Won’t Work
Written by Anthony Johnson on . Posted in Business, Politics.
Donald Trump has been on both (or several) sides of the cannabis legalization debate since he announced his run for president. He declared himself supportive of medical cannabis and a believer in states’...