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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...

In The Magazine

Weed Wargaming the White House & Congress After November 8th

Double-check your voter registration.

Legal

Pot Patients’ Federal Cease-Fire Extended

Medical marijuana patients, caregivers and their providers can breath a little easier until election day.

Politics

Things to Know About Nevada’s Legal Pot Ballot Measure

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada joins California, Arizona, Massachusetts and Maine as one of five states...

Legal

DEA Blasted For Failing to Reschedule Marijuana

The Drug Enforcement Administration is under severe criticism today after it failed to downgrade marijuana from...

Cannabis

The Pesticide Dilemma

Colorado, Oregon, California and other legal states are tightening their list of allowed pesticides.

Politics

Massachusetts Officials Fight Hard to Foil Marijuana Initiative

While voters in Massachusetts will likely get the opportunity to decide later this year whether the...

Economics

Massive Growth Forecast for America’s Cannabis Industry

If the steady drumbeat of legalization progress hadn’t already made it obvious, new market research produced...

Politics

Pass It, Grassley: The CARERS Act and 2016

Assume bill dead? Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After...

Politics

Obama Says to Leave Colorado Pot Alone As Congress Rejects New Riders to Spending Plan

Although the federal government continues to wage a vicious war against the cannabis plant, the Obama...