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A seven-acre greenhouse facility in Ontario run by Supreme Pharmaceuticals, formerly a copper exploration company.  Image: Reuters/Euan Rocha

Some mining firms are switching to cannabis as the lure of commodities fades

 
Economic turmoil in China, the world’s second-largest economy and top consumer of industrial metals, has hit commodity prices hard. For the smaller players in the mining industry, that’s made business difficult, and the future uncertain.
Vermont State Senator Joe Benning acknowledged that there may not be enough support in the legislature yet for legalizing marijuana. But he thinks it might make sense to regulate that industry and perhaps even reap some economic rewards from it. Credit Charlotte Albright / VPR

Forum: Could Legalizing Pot Grow Vermont's Localvore Economy?

Charlotte Albright ~ Vermont Public Radio ~

A group of Vermont business leaders called the Vermont Cannabis Collaborative has been inviting public comment on the best way to create a safe, sustainable marijuana industry.
Interior of the Euflora dispensary in downtown Denver. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Pot Risk vs. Profit: Bankers Cautious of Marijuana Dispensaries

Clarissa Cooper and Michael Bodley ~ Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative via NBCNews.com ~
 
DENVER — Every month, Jamie Perino hires a security detail to come to her three recreational marijuana dispensaries. They stop by, collect thousands of dollars in cash and head out to deliver the money to the state, county and city.
Cannabis trimmers at a Denver operation. Image: WeedWorthy.com

Fledgling Marijuana Industry Pressing Through Labor Pains

Michael Bodley ~ NBCNews.com ~
 
PHOENIX - The developing national marijuana industry is still sifting through labor disputes long since settled in other lines of work.
Glass artist Mark Nowicki displays his handmade bongs at the O.G Tubes booth at the marijuana expo at the Hawaii Convention Center on July 19. Image: Cory Lum, Civil Beat.

Pakalolo and Profits: The Emerging Medical Marijuana Industry in Hawaii

Competition will be fierce for Hawaii’s eight licenses to grow and sell medical cannabis. Many other types of businesses are looking for a piece of the action as well.

People share marijuana seeds at the swap event at Libertine, in Adams Morgan. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)

For D.C. pot enterprises, business is booming

 
WASHINGTON — Pot-related businesses in the District are starting to meet expectations, growing steadily since last February when marijuana became legal for private and personal use.
Cannabis leaf and Texas State Capitol Building

Texas cannabis capitalists are ready to seed the soil

John Austin ~ CNHI State Reporter via Cleburne Times-Review ~
 
AUSTIN — Texans with epilepsy may not be buying legal cannabis oil here until 2017, but home-grown entrepreneurs are already lining up for a cut of the mainstream marijuana business.
Photo: Jamie Kraus

This man is determined to make his brand of legal weed as recognizable as TV dinners

 
A marijuana dispenser in Colorado is modeling his career after an unlikely business hero: TV dinner tycoon Clarence Birdseye, who practically invented the frozen food industry thanks to his dual interests in food preservation and inventing new technology.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is the target of a lawsuit filed by a credit union seeking to serve the marijuana industry. Image: Dave Kaup/KCBJ

KC Fed finds itself at the center of marijuana debate

 
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City finds itself in the middle of a heated debate about the legalization of marijuana, as the target of a lawsuit filed by a credit union seeking to serve the industry.
Cannabis bud and hand.

Some Ohio employers bracing if pot is legalized

 
Cincinnati area businesses are already pondering what they should do if Ohio votes this fall to legalize marijuana, including use of medicinal pot on the job.

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