“ He added that wealthier states, such as Colorado, could more easily handle the alleged detriment of legal weed. “ Instead, Pearce meant that wealthier states like Colorado have more resources “to pay for more drug addiction, more jails, and …
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Israel Agrees to Export Its Cannabis
After months of playing the “will they or won’t they” game, Israel, the Ross and Rachel of cannabis exports, has agreed to ship marijuana beyond its borders. Last month, Marijuana.com reported that Israeli cannabis companies were threatening to take their …
Read More »Arkansas Pauses Marijuana Dispensary Applications’ Review
By Andrew DeMillo LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas regulators have stopped reviewing applications from businesses that want to sell medical marijuana, weeks after a judge struck down the state’s licensing process for growing the drug. A spokesman for the …
Read More »House Passes Bill That Could Launch Maine’s Rec Market
Paul McCarrier, president of Legalize Maine, which wrote the referendum question, said the reduction in home grow and lack of a cultivation cap, will drive prices so low that everyday Mainers would get driven out of the business by rich …
Read More »California’s Legal Weed Sales Are Lagging Behind Expectations, Analysts Say – News
Html”>According to the Sacramento Bee, Colorado-based marijuana data crunchers at BDS Analytics have dug through California’s first two months of adult-use weed sales and found that business wasn’t quite as booming as industry insiders had predicted before January’s retail cannabis …
Read More »Marijuana Shop Cannot Bank on Identity That Parodies Citibank
As cannabis consumption reaches the mainstream, many formerly tongue-in-cheek subcultural terms and brands that flew under the radar on the black market are now very much on the legal radar of corporate America. Like Gorilla Glue and other companies before …
Read More »Pennsylvania Regulators Approve Cannabis Flower Sales – News
This Weed in Sports: Odom Will be Keeping up With Canna-Business
Two-time NBA champion Lamar Odom is the latest in long list of former professional athletes trying their hand at the cannabis industry after retirement. The 14-season NBA veteran and former Parade high school player of the year went through a …
Read More »Maven Coalition Conference Offers a New Voice for Free Speech and Cannabis
The Maven is our media platform and is a coalition of independent publishers coming together to grow our businesses and reclaim our independence. The Coalition believes that at a time when we are all concerned with fake news, destructive algorithm …
Read More »Maryland Passes Bill to Increase Minority Participation in Medical Cannabis Industry – News
Html”>expand the state’s medical marijuana program while also ensuring that minority business owners, who have so far been excluded by the state, have a chance to get a foothold in the new industry. This weekend, the state House of Delegates …
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