As Missouri marijuana businesses cash in, small Black-owned shops are stuck in limbo
© Tammy Ljungblad/Kansas City Star/TNS Roderick Pearson Jr., left, and Andrew McDowell, inside Funky Skunk, a retail smoke shop that sells CBD, helps patients get medical marijuana cards and and hosts marijuana-smoking events When Missouri allowed the first...
Focus is on ‘social equity’ as Md. bill to establish legalized cannabis industry is vetted by House committee
This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. No one really complained about the 88-page bill. In fact, most of the witnesses testifying Friday...
Infused Element: Holyoke entrepreneurs enter cannabis marketplace with edible business
Two Paper City natives are rolling into the cannabis market with their brand of cannabis-infused food products. Isaias A. Rosario and Ezra R. Bleau, co-founders of Infused Element, are literally “home grown,” having met through Entrepreneurship for All, also known as...
California mulls legalizing cannabis cafes to help marijuana industry
© DPA A dried hemp bud. Legislators in California are looking at ways to make pot retailers more palatable to help the struggling marijuana industry. Jens Kalaene/dpa/ZB You order a sandwich, a coffee and a marijuana cigarette, then settle in for a musical...
Marijuana merger: Companies burning cash, could be smoked by competitors
Mark Lucas, chief executive of NZX-listed medicinal Cannabis grower Cannasouth, on harvesting his company’s first commercial crop in June 2022. Video / Cannasouth Bioscience LimitedPLUS Risks associated with medicinal marijuana companies have manifested, with...
CBD Stocks Creating Opportunities – Established (BCCI), (STG), (WEED), (ACRGF), (RLTR), (CBMJ), and Newcomer (VAPR) Lead the Charge
You would have to be living in isolation to have not picked up on the hottest marijuana derivative consumable and therapeutic center isolate CBD. CBD “Cannabidiol” is the non-psychoactive full spectrum derivative of the hemp and marijuana plant largely credited for the majority of the medical beneficial attributes associated with marijuana.
Marijuana move could help Biden in key voter group
while the administration and environmental groups have touted the Inflation Reduction Act as the largest investment ever in combating climate change. But like the recent action on marijuana, critics …
Canada’s Cannabis Giant Sets Sights on US Market: ‘It’s Like Looking Into the Future’
Mario Naric, the visionary CEO and founder of Motif Labs, recently offered insights into the company’s ambitious trajectory during an exclusive interview at the esteemed Benzinga Cannabis Capital …
$187,000 marijuana top job opens up to nationwide search in Massachusetts
The continued success of the Bay State’s legal weed business will need a “tough, strategic thinker” to oversee day-to-day administration of the agency in charge of the $7 billion pot industry, …
Finance Docket: The Financial And Business Implications Of Marijuana Reclassification
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is set to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous Schedule III drug under a proposal from the Justice Depar …
Minnesotans convicted of marijuana crimes could see their records cleared with legalization
Cameron Taylor knew that pleading guilty to a felony marijuana possession charge was the surest way to avoid prison and remain in his children’s lives. Little did he know the felony would haunt him for the next decade. Taylor, 39, has turned his life around...
California county’s cannabis industry on ‘the brink of irreversible failure’
Mendocino County is one of the best places in the world to grow cannabis. Wet air from the Pacific washes over the county’s mountain valleys, creating perfect microclimates for growing pungent pot, and the “Mendo” nickname has become an international shorthand for...
Better Buy: Aurora Cannabis vs. Cresco Labs
Though cannabis stocks have been frighteningly underperforming for the last 24 months or so, the industry itself has been expanding rapidly. If Allied Market Research’s estimates are correct, the global cannabis market could reach $149 billion by 2031. As...
Looking for a Job? The Cannabis Industry Is Hiring in New York.
The first time Kirk Lawrence got a job selling weed, it was in the 1990s at a record store in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he had to be discreet. In the years that followed, he was arrested over and over, feeling the consequences of police crackdowns on marijuana...
Maryland lawmakers hear concerns, hopes for new recreational cannabis industry
Lawmakers, lobbyists and industry stakeholders poured into the House Economic Matters Committee hearing room Friday to debate the creation of a safe and equitable recreational cannabis industry in Maryland. “I’ve said, multiple times, I’m not here to create a cash...
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