Full adult use legalization of cannabis could generate 1 million jobs in the next seven years, according to New Frontier Data.
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Cannabidiol stepped into the spotlight at Natural Products Expo West, where hemp industry experts said the U.S. CBD market could hit $1.9 billion by 2022.
The Silver State’s marijuana industry is still in its infancy, but the cannabis market has raked in more than $30 million in tax revenue for the state so far.
The pharmacy chain's parent company applied in October 2016 for a license to dispense medical marijuana.
A Canadian company has its eye on the future of marijuana in Aruba and the Caribbean, signing a deal this week to produce marijuana and food there in the near future.
Cannabis enthusiasts aim to highlight and increase minorities in the legal marijuana industry through Estrohaze.
Exchanging business cards decorated with marijuana leaves, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, legal experts and cannabis enthusiasts alike descended on the Yale School of Management on Friday for the first cannabis-oriented conference organized by an American business school.
Legal cannabis is projected to be a $21 billion market in the U.S. by 2021, and providers of recreational pot are gearing up for consumer demand.
Lilach Mazor Power, CEO and cofounder of The Giving Tree, sees hiring university graduates, especially those with scientific degrees, as the logical next step in the rapidly professionalizing world of weed.
The Great Lakes State has the second-largest medical marijuana patient base in the country, trailing only gigantic California.
At 800,000-square-feet, the Aurora Sky facility being built by Aurora Cannabis at the Edmonton International Airport is poised to be the largest licensed cannabis facility in the world.
More than 5,000 people packed the Denver Mart this weekend for the Indo Expo's fifth cannabis trade show.
We already have among the highest rates of use globally. People are already sourcing their cannabis effectively.
By breaking marijuana free from smoking and its paraphernalia, new delivery methods — especially portable vapes — are transforming the image and utility of cannabis, and helping it grab a mainstream audience.
Canada’s second-biggest marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis Inc has agreed to buy smaller rival CanniMed Therapeutics Inc for C$1.1 billion ($852 million), creating the globe’s largest weed producer by market value.
Marijuana tourism is on the horizon for California's famed wine country. A craft cannabis brand called Flow Kana is building a marijuana processing and manufacturing hub on the site of a former winery in Mendocino County.
New Jersey could reap as much as $1 billion a year from legal marijuana — the equivalent of more than a half-cent boost in the sales tax — if the state taxes the industry aggressively and imposes fees on growers, distributors, testing labs, retailers and delivery services, according to projections by a law firm.
