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Lawmakers Race to Introduce Veterans' Medical Marijuana Bills in New Congress - Cannabis News
A recent Colorado Tourism Office survey of summer travelers shows 48 percent were influenced by legal recreational pot.
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The investment arm of Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, sent out a 45 page equity report last week focused on prospects related to marijuana. Carefully researched, it was an interesting peek at how heavy hitters on Wall Street are starting to view the expanding industry.
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GW Pharmaceuticals, which makes drugs derived from the cannabis plant, is scaling up its manufacturing capacity ahead of an expected approval of a new treatment for children with life-threatening epilepsy.
Not to be outdone by much larger national retailers, Denver’s cannabis merchants are rolling out Black Friday deals of their own.
A new wave of legal-weed entrepreneurs wants to put the dope in your doppio. And the potential profits from a mashup of coffee and caffeine are, well, high.
A cannabis company is poised to become the first marijuana producer with a joint listing in Europe and the US as it seeks to take advantage of shifting attitudes to the drug that are spawning a new industry.
Preliminary data released from Boulder data analysis firm BDS Analytics has confirmed what tax revenues have already shown: Coloradans love legal pot.
While a Silicon Valley company can legally protect its most valuable technology with federal patents, cannabis companies cannot secure their core products as long as the federal government continues to classify marijuana as an illegal drug on par with heroin — one with “no accepted medical use.”
Small businesses depend on cheap advertising. From word of mouth to social media, cannabis dispensaries all over Oregon use Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to show their products and interact with customers and patients.
Tying a celebrity's name to a brand can be a big deal for marketing. You see it with sportswear and cosmetics all the time.
A year ago this month, D.C. residents overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative legalizing the possession of marijuana in the District and allowing residents to grow it at home.
An Oregon electric utility said on Thursday that residents growing light-craving marijuana plants indoors have sparked a wave of small-scale outages, prompting the company to offer expert help in setting up their home-growing operations.
DENVER — A Colorado county that boasts the world's largest outdoor marijuana farm and has been actively courting the new pot industry has approved the world's first marijuana-funded college scholarship.
James Dornbrook ~ Denver Business Journal ~
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has asked a federal judge in Colorado to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by a Denver-based credit union that wants to provide financial services to the marijuana industry.
Alexandra Posadzki ~ The Canadian Press via GlobalNews.ca ~
Friendlier laws on medical marijuana use in Canada are already drawing American investment north of the border, and the trend is likely to further ignite if the federal Liberals make good on their promise to allow recreational use of the drug.
Kate Smith ~ Bloomberg ~
Washington State expects marijuana sales taxes to bring in more than $1 billion over the next four years, according to a budget forecast published by the Office of Financial Management.
Kristen Wyatt ~ Associated Press ~
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado's attempt to create a bank to service its marijuana industry has received a setback from the Federal Reserve.
Thad Moore ~ Washington Post ~
Tobacco isn’t the reliable cash crop it once was. And that has hundreds of other farmers across the South revisiting a plant from deep in the region’s past: industrial hemp.
Kathleen Burke ~ MarketWatch ~
If you’re a small-business owner and marijuana has been legalized in your state, should you care?
