Current Events
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Help with the Hunt: Find the Right Cannabis Products
New apps are designed to help locate strains, products and secure a medical marijuana recommendation. Finding cannabis products you love can be complicated. But if...
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The Feds Don’t Want Parents Locking Up Their Pot
As cannabis policies at the state and federal levels continue down divergent paths, Stashlogix — a company trying to help people (particularly parents) store their...
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MA Guts Pot Industry Protections for People of Color
When Massachusetts’ voters passed Question 4 last November it included clear language for diversity and inclusion in the forthcoming legal cannabis industry. Now lawmakers and...
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Vermont Legalization Deal Likely This Week
Despite a disappointing gubernatorial veto, Vermont's historic legalization bill could still move forward — this week. Vermont came within a stroke of Gov. Rick Scott’s...
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Bolder Business Strategies
How two young entrepreneurs navigated stringent state regulations and built their brand. Consider the multi-phase evolution of Colorado’s cannabis industry: the illicit marketplace gave way...
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Goodbye Medical MJ, Hello ‘Medical AND Adult-Use’ Cannabis
California, the undisputed pioneer of state-level cannabis decriminalization, is about to make history again with the 2018 rollout of the largest regulated marijuana market in...
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CA’s Legal Weed Market Is Worth $5 billion — There’s a Catch
California already accounts for roughly a quarter of all legal cannabis sales in the United States and is poised to be an economic powerhouse in...
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AG Sessions to Congress: Let Me Prosecute Cannabis Patients
A recently revealed memo from AG Jeff Sessions urging Congress to overturn restrictions on DOJ prosecution of state-legal medical cannabis operations is heating up already...
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Prosecutor Charges Marijuana Business Attorney
An attorney who successfully returned money seized from a dispensary owner has now been changed with criminal action. The case is being called “vindictive prosecution."...
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Legalization in Trump’s America: Skating on Thin Ice
With an aggressive executive branch openly defying constitutional checks on its authority and installing noted prohibitionists in key positions, will the Trump administration make America...
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Cannabis Decriminalization Offers Opportunity for Reparations
The legal cannabis industry has almost everything; billions of dollars in sales, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue — fuel for schools, drug-abuse...
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Is Sessions Out? AG Offers to Quit as Trump’s Russia Frustration Mounts
Sessions leaving office, could mean good news for cannabis advocates. Even Donald Trump is sick of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions, America’s all-purpose antebellum bogeyman...
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Left Behind by Clemency
What's beef? Beef is when a rap video means the difference between a four-year sentence and 20 to life as a "cannabis kingpin.” Jane Scarmazzo...
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The Drought Days Are Over
Reflections on the challenges of growing outdoor cannabis. It may sound trite, but really, what a difference a year makes. Last year at this time,...
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BAS Provides Bulk Cannabis Oil to CA Market
California lab produces 60 kilos of cannabis oil per month. The idea of bulk cannabis oil being sold at wholesale rates and rebranded under different...
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DOJ Task Force Gears Up to Talk Pot Policy
The Justice Department's Task Force on Public Safety and Crime Reduction has a set of initial recommendations due next month that will include a look...
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‘Post-Cable’ News Network Sets its Sights on Cannabusiness
Cheddar is an innovative "post-cable" business news network that broadcasts live from the floor of the NYSE — and they're looking to Cannabis Now for...
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Ohio Files Lawsuit Against Rx Companies for Opioid Crisis
Ohio, like many parts of the U.S., is facing a serious opioid addiction and overdose epidemic, and its state attorney says pharmaceutical companies that flood...
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$70 Million Acquisition Puts High Times in Oreva Capital’s Portfolio
High Times was founded in 1974 by outlaw publishing icon Tom Forcade, who used the profits from his drug smuggling operation to fund the early issues....
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Australia’s Most Famous Pot Prisoner Heads Home
Over the weekend, Australia’s most famous pot prisoner, Schapelle Corby, finished her parole in Indonesia and returned home to Australia for the first time in...
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