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Economics

Financing Options for New & Existing Cannabis Businesses

Top 5 tips for financing & the most commonly leased items

Economics

California Sticker Shock: Will Dispensary Prices Jump 70 Percent?

A report last week estimated that California’s high taxes on cannabis will drastically increase the price...

Products

Tokr Aims to Bridge Information Gap Between Retailers & Consumers

A new app helps to locate the perfect strain.

Cannabis

Cannabis Farm Escapes North Bay Fire With Help From Harborside

Nationally known dispensary offers support to Acme Elixirs’ grower after Red Flag Warnings issued in West...

Industry Events

Tech & Cannabis Collide at the New West Summit

The third annual conference brought together industry titans to look toward the tenuous future.  

Legal

Crowdfunding Site Reverses Fire Fund for CA Cannabis Growers

WePay has reversed the funds raised by the California Growers Association, in what cannabis industry insiders...

Economics

Hawaii First State to Push for Cashless Pot Economy

The state is betting that the dangers of electronic banking through a single app and credit...

Economics

Official ‘Made In Alaska’ Cannabis Is a Thing Now

Normalization of cannabis commerce is crucial to the long-term success of legalization, and official state recognition...

Economics

The Feds Are Handing the Global Cannabis Market to Canada

Canada's top cannabis companies are on a mission of global domination — seriously. How do we...

Economics

Bank Kerfuffle Threatens Uruguay Legalization

Legal cannabis in Uruguay encounters a banking snag

Economics

Could Cannabis Tourism Save Puerto Rico’s Economy?

Puerto Rico is drowning in a sea of debt more than $74 billion deep, and many...

Economics

Cryptocurrency & Cannabis: Exploring the Edge of Economics

The state-legal cannabis industry has a big problem — it can't use traditional banking. That means...

Legal

What Does Net Neutrality Mean for Legal Cannabis?

The uncertain fate of net neutrality is a hot button issue across all industry sectors, and the...

Culture

West Coast Wanderings: Seattle Through A Smoky Lens

A scattershot exploration of Seattle, Washington taken in from a vantage point as high as the...

Industry Events

NCIA Cannabis Business Summit & Expo in Oakland: Day Two

4,500 participants at the fourth annual NCIA mega-conference woke up in Oakland — a newly rechristened city...

Concentrates

Dab Drought: Oregon’s Legalization is Killing Concentrates

Oregon's medical cannabis patients — especially those with serious illnesses — have come to rely on...

Politics

Congressional Cannabis Caucus Kicks Off

In the face of legal uncertainty surrounding the future of federal enforcement of drug laws in...

Legal

CA Pot Regs: ‘Building the Airplane While it’s Being Flown’

Regulation looms, but California's illicit cannabis market is still thriving. One state senator said that with...

Legal

The Pot Train Could Still Go Off the Tracks, and Here’s How

DENVER (AP) — Weed is winning in the polls, with a solid majority of Americans saying...

Legal

Vindicated: BPG & Berkeley Beat Feds

In what may be remembered as the last great battle for California’s medical cannabis industry prior...