Inside the Bay Area’s biggest-ever marijuana bust: gym bags stuffed with cash, 40 Rolexes and $1,000 bottles of wine
An Alameda County sheriff’s deputy revved up a trimmer and began hacking through a thicket of marijuana plants — enough to fill several rooms of a warehouse in San Leandro and, eventually, scores of garbage bags. The facility, a stocky industrial building near the Bay...
‘People who bore the brunt of incarceration,’ deserve to succeed in New York’s legal cannabis sector, says entrepreneur
Concern about opportunities in legal cannabis for African Americans, indigenous people and people of color loomed large in an industry gathering focused on the emerging adult-use business in New York state this week. About 300 advocates, financiers and prospective...
Trulieve Becomes Largest U.S. Cannabis Company
Trulieve just acquired Harvest Health & Recreation, officially making them the largest cannabis company in the nation. Trulieve finalized this purchase today for $2.2 billion. The company, based out of Tallahassee, and founded to be a medical cannabis entity, the...
‘People who bore the brunt of incarceration,’ deserve to succeed in New York’s legal cannabis sector, says one entrepreneur
Concern about opportunities in legal cannabis for African Americans, indigenous people and people of color loomed large in an industry gathering focused on the emerging adult-use business in New York state this week. About 300 advocates, financiers and prospective...
Rootz Research claims it’s using insights from top Wharton professors to upend cannabis data. The real story is far more complicated.
© Provided by Business Insider The founder Rootz Research said the company’s data would forever change cannabis. The truth is much stranger. Samantha Lee/Insider The founder of Rootz Research told Insider he started the company with three Wharton professors. One...
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.
Gwyneth Paltrow-backed marijuana brand smokes its California competition: report
Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com After shaking the business world up with her lifestyle brand Goop, which first became infamous for selling a candle called “This Smells like my Vagina,” Gwyneth Paltrow is now taking on California’s...
The Fight For Florida’s Green Gold: Will 2024 See Marijuana Legalized?
A game-changing initiative is being played out in Florida’s legal sphere. Smart & Safe Florida, with substantial backing from Florida-based Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (OTCEM: TRUL) (OTCQX:TCNNF) and supporters including the Cato Institute and Medical Marijuana...
Mooresville man faces charges he used $2.6M in COVID funds for investment fraud scheme
A Mooresville man is facing federal charges over claims that he fraudulently obtained more than $2.6 million in COVID relief funds, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. Investigators say he used the money to further defraud investors in a previous financial...
Missouri To Conduct Marijuana Business Demographic Survey After Black Residents Say They’re Being Left Out
A Missouri state official has promised to fight for the creation of a demographic survey of cannabis business owners after Black residents in the state say they’ve been left out of the industry. Marijuana Moment reports Abigail Vivas, the chief equity officer at...
Black CannaConference And Weedmaps Aim To Transform Business In The South
Black CannaBusiness Magazine, the “premier publisher of B2B content for African Americans doing business in the cannabis industry,” recently announced Weedmaps as a lead sponsor for the second annual Black CannaConference & Expo—a B2B conference designed...
‘Shining Jewel of Michigan’: Chris Webber Breaks Ground on $175M Cannabis Facility That Will Bring Hundreds of Jobs to Southwest Detroit
NBA great and Fab Five alumnus Chris Webber is expanding the Detroit landscape with a new expansive cannabis enterprise. The facility is called the Webber Wellness Compound. On Tuesday, Webber broke ground on the 180,000-square-foot, $50 million facility,...
KindTap Brings Digital Credit To The Cannabis Industry
Card-carrying medical marijuana patients eager to learn more about Kief, in jar, at Los Angeles’ … [+] first-ever cannabis farmer’s market at the West Coast Collective medical marijuana dispensary, on the fourth of July, or Independence Day, in Los...
Massachusetts town charges local cannabis companies $866,000 for “policing”
The news this week that a small Massachusetts town is charging more than $1.3 million in “impact fees” to the three cannabis companies operating within its city limits has reopened the debate over the true impact of cannabis businesses on local communities. In a...
Another Mainstream Company Jumps Into The Marijuana Business
Crain Communications, the century old business publishing company, joins Amazon, Constellation Brands, Molson Coors, Altria, CVS, and others in the marijuana space. Crain announced last week that they have purchased Green Market Report, the most respected business...
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