Pequots, Mohegans not interested in the cannabis industry for the moment
While Native American tribes in some states are jumping into the emerging adult-use and medical-marijuana markets, the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations seem content now to focus on expanded gambling opportunities with the recent arrival of sports betting...
Creating a comfortable environment for cannabis consumers is key
The cannabis industry has reached the end of its prohibition in cities across the U.S., making it the first genuinely new industry in decades. With this new industry comes the ability for innovation, development, and growth at record speeds. How does a cannabis...
Arnold Schwarzenegger failed at revenge-pranking Twins costar Danny DeVito with marijuana cigar
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been waiting more than three decades to revenge prank his Twins costar Danny DeVito. Unfortunately for Schwarzenegger, DeVito smoked out his plot. A little background first: Back in May, while responding to a fan’s question about his...
Lighting up: New Canaan entrepreneur adding e-tail to cannabis research website
Harry DeMott “It’s like we’re going from being Wikipedia to being Amazon.” So says Harry DeMott, a New Canaan resident and entrepreneur whose company Proper expects to segue from being a research-based firm on what is available in the marketplace to being a full-on...
With recreational cannabis sales approaching, Bozeman takes a look at where the businesses can exist
Cannabis enthusiasts and marijuana entrepreneurs are eagerly anticipating the New Year, as it will ring in the legal sale of recreational marijuana in Montana. It’s unclear whether anyone in Bozeman’s City Hall is excited for January for personal reasons, but the city...
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.
Cannabis commission chair wants to relax regulations to help businesses ‘thrive’
When Massachusetts residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2016, communities braced for what new cannabis stores would mean for their neighborhoods. “It was like an opium den is coming to the neighborhood,” Shannon O’Brien, the chair of the Cannabis...
Mastercard Demands Shutdown Of Marijuana Buys On Its Debit Cards
Mastercard Inc. MA recently jolted the cannabis industry with a demand: “In accordance with our policies, we instructed the financial institutions that offer payment services to cannabis merchants and connect them to Mastercard to terminate the activity,”...
Pounds Of Marijuana Wash Up On Florida Beach
Via El Planteo. On Saturday morning, visitors to Neptune Beach were greeted with an unexpected find on their shores – a hefty quantity of marijuana. According to the Neptune Beach Police Department, the marijuana washed ashore near Florida Boulevard, catching...
NBA Star Kevin Durant Said Commissioner Smelled Marijuana On Him As He Advocated For Ending THC Testing For Players
NBA All-Star Kevin Durant says he personally lobbied the league’s commissioner to get marijuana removed from the banned substances list for players—and during one meeting, he said the official caught a whiff of cannabis on him. At a CNBC and Boardroom “Game Plan”...
Local business to begin cannabis-growing workshop to answer FAQs
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In the more than three months since Virginia became the first southern state to legalize marijuana, local agricultural supplier Happy Trees has received countless questions from customers about how to take care of their cannabis plants and what...
Doing business with a medical marijuana company? Your bank may balk
Craig Kaminer is not in the marijuana business. But after running a cannabis-related ad in a recent issue of his St. Louis-based magazine Sophisticated Living, he found himself thrust headlong into the kind of costly complication that’s plagued dispensaries and other...
Miller introduces marijuana equity bill
City Councilmember I. Daneek Miller introduced a bill that would create an office for overseeing legal marijuana in New York City if passed. AP file photo by Richard Vogel By Jacob Kaye Two City Councilmembers, including one from Queens, introduced a bill...
Sundial Growers surges 15% after cannabis distributor enters liquor business with $346 million acquisition of Alcanna
© Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Sundial Growers. Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Sundial Growers stock jumped as much as 15% on Friday after agreeing to acquire Alcanna for...
Why This Pick-and-Shovel Cannabis Stock Says Its Shares Are Too Cheap
© Provided by The Motley Fool Why This Pick-and-Shovel Cannabis Stock Says Its Shares Are Too Cheap During the third-quarter earnings call for Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG), CEO Jim Hagedorn not-so-subtly gave his opinion on the stock’s price, saying,...
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