Economics
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Legal Pot Brings Temporary Tax Break for Some Medical Users
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some California medical marijuana users are getting a tax break. State officials announced Thursday that certain purchases of medical cannabis are...
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‘Black Girls Toke’ Back
Women of color find weed’s greener pastures lack diversity and accessibility. In a cityscape with branded cannabis on billboards and bus stops advertising a marijuana...
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Here Are the Anti-Marijuana Vegas Casinos to Avoid
Since gambling, dining, and over-the-top entertainment apparently isn't enough, Las Vegas is also aiming to become the international capital for marijuana tourism. If voters in...
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Jane West Raises $1M in Capital, Launches Modern Glassware Collection
Jane West is a leading cannabis activist, a co-founder of Women Grow, and an entrepreneur with an event production company and her own eponymous brand....
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Cannabis Tech Company Eaze Closes $25 Million in Funding
Silicon Valley is definitely warming to the idea of cannabis. Major interest from tech giants like Microsoft talking seed-to-sale cloud software and a former Facebook...
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Business Owners Replace Idealists in Legal-Pot Movement
DENVER (AP) — Business owners are replacing idealists in the pot-legalization movement as the nascent marijuana industry creates a broad base of new donors, many...
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Investors Anxious as Oregonians Again Vote on Marijuana
Last year, Golden Leaf Holdings, a leading cannabis company, paid $3.3 million for almost 100 acres of land in Oregon to build a marijuana growing,...
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Alaska Marijuana Sales Are Close
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska is nearing its first legal sales of marijuana, nearly two years after voters approved the recreational use of pot by...
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Alaska OKs Marijuana, but Some Communities Ban Pot Commerce
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaskans two years ago approved recreational use of marijuana. That doesn't mean they want it sold in their towns. Voters in...
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Recreational Cannabis Shops in Oregon Set to Open
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Starting on Saturday, Oregonians can buy marijuana for recreational use at shops intended for that purpose. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission...
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Investment Bank: Recreational Cannabis a $50 Billion Market By 2026
Another day, another estimate of how big the recreational cannabis market is going to be — and another big, fat number followed by "billion." The...
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Peter Thiel-backed Marley Natural Enters Cannabis Distribution Game
One of the first state-approved cannabis distributors in California will carry the red, gold, and green flag. Marley Natural — the venture capital-backed cannabis brand...
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Cannabis Investors: Want Big Returns, Want To Stay Anonymous
Venture capital is flooding into the cannabis industry, with New York-based private equity firm Tuatara Capital Partners recently closing an $80 million funding round. Who...
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Tokers Over Smokers: Cannabis Use Set To Eclipse Tobacco
Slowly but surely, Americans are kicking their cigarette habits and picking up joints instead. Reported cannabis use is at an all-time high, according to results...
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Your Average Annual Spending on Cannabis, Revealed
Rent, groceries, student loans — and with what's left over, about $647 on cannabis, strictly flower. The identity of the "average" legal marijuana consumer is...
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Will Taxes Kill California’s Golden Ganja Goose?
The world's largest marijuana market is getting ready to legalize, and local cities and counties are looking to cash in. Estimates put the California recreational...
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Boosting THC at Dixie: Tripp Keber Aims to Recapture Cannabis’ Core
As cannabis markets continue to diversify, the first major multi-state brands have already found their places in the record books. One of the of the...
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Plan to Convert Vacant Prison to Massive Oil Lab Approved
Where prisoners of the drug war once languished in cells, the California cannabis industry will soon create jobs — and fix the budget problems of...
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The Greatest Billboard is a Legalization Billboard
Pot is patriotic. A red, white, and blue billboard is greeting drivers in Tempe, Arizona, with an all-American message endorsed by an ex-DEA agent: Legalize...
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Ex-DEA Agent, Former Legislator & More Scramble to Cash in on Maryland MMJ
Open new cannabis markets and all sorts of characters come out of the woodwork for a piece of what is sure to be a very...
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