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  • Ganja interests wary of internal business rivalry

    Saturday, 31 January 2015
    Ganja interests wary of internal business rivalry

    Despite strong ministerial and legislative signals, segments of the marijuana lobby are unsure that sufficient protections will be afforded to the persons who currently supply the raw material. The c ...

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  • Israeli medical marijuana creates buzz but no high — will it go global?

    Saturday, 31 January 2015
    Israeli medical marijuana creates buzz but no high — will it go global?

    Israel has become a world leader in science on the medical uses of marijuana, and its producers could become major exporters of medical cannabis. But so far, the government has allowed them to export ...

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  • High hopes: Legalized pot is on the way

    Thursday, 29 January 2015
    High hopes: Legalized pot is on the way

    Moving from illicit to licit requires regulations that allow enough of a legal market to dry out the black one – ideally, while bringing in much-needed tax revenue – and a blend of stiff penalties fo ...

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    cannabis industry | canada | legalization | regulation | cannabis
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  • Report predicts 18 states will legalize pot by 2020

    Sunday, 25 January 2015
    Report predicts 18 states will legalize pot by 2020

    A new report predicts that 18 U.S. states will have legalized recreational marijuana in the next five years, a huge increase from the four states that currently have or are in the process of creating ...

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  • The legalization of marijuana: a good example of flexible policymaking

    Wednesday, 21 January 2015
    The legalization of marijuana: a good example of flexible policymaking

    Marijuana policy may not seem like the natural setting to model policies that pursue inclusive growth, but the innovative policy-making processes initiated in four US states are actually well worth c ...

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  • Seattle's legal marijuana euphoria over as industry undergoes growing pains

    Thursday, 15 January 2015
    Seattle's legal marijuana euphoria over as industry undergoes growing pains

    The legal marijuana market in the state of Washington opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn’t have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof. Six m ...

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    drug markets | cannabis industry | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Canadian lawyers scent profit as medical marijuana industry prepares to go legit

    Tuesday, 06 January 2015
    Canadian lawyers scent profit as medical marijuana industry prepares to go legit

    Since 2001, Canada has allowed patients to grow their own marijuana or designate a grower to do so on their behalf, but a policy change established the opportunity for licensed growers operating unde ...

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  • KanaVape: Cannabis e-cigarette to go on sale in the UK

    Tuesday, 16 December 2014
    KanaVape: Cannabis e-cigarette to go on sale in the UK

    The vaping trend seemingly knows no bounds as the first “cannabis” e-cigarette goes on sale in the UK. The KanaVape, which contains hemp, has been legalised for use in France by people with cancer, m ...

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    e-joint | cannabis industry | cannabinoids | UK | france | medical cannabis
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  • France plans to stub out e-joints

    Monday, 15 December 2014
    France plans to stub out e-joints

    France has sought to stamp out a new electronic cigarette containing cannabis, launched with the claim that it provides all of the relaxation but none of the mind-altering effects of the drug. The he ...

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  • Pot industry plants seeds on Capitol Hill

    Thursday, 04 December 2014
    Pot industry plants seeds on Capitol Hill

    The legal weed industry is trying to grow something else these days: political influence. The National Cannabis Industry Association has spent $60,000 lobbying Congress and federal regulators during ...

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  • Marijuana’s big-money Marley Brand makes a splash

    Monday, 24 November 2014
    Marijuana’s big-money Marley Brand makes a splash

    Last week, NBC’s Today Show giddily announced an exclusive: Privateer Holdings, the Seattle marijuana company long acclaimed locally for its straight, corporate image and Ivy-League-educated bosses, ...

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  • Marijuana industry sets its sights on the mainstream

    Monday, 24 November 2014
    Marijuana industry sets its sights on the mainstream

    Marijuana is growing up. As Colorado and Washington’s recreational marijuana industries blossom and new markets in Oregon and Alaska begin to take shape, so-called ganjapreneurs are looking for ways ...

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  • Is ‘Big Marijuana’ inevitable?

    Tuesday, 18 November 2014
    Is ‘Big Marijuana’ inevitable?

    It looks like the use of recreational marijuana is heading down the path of legalization across the country. Voters in Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia approved legalizing measures on Nov. ...

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  • Stir it up: Bob Marley to headline corporate cannabis brand

    Monday, 17 November 2014
    Stir it up: Bob Marley to headline corporate cannabis brand

    The Marley family and a Seattle-based private equity firm announced the creation of Marley Natural, "a premium cannabis brand rooted in the life and legacy" of one of marijuana’s most devoted sons. M ...

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  • Cannabis hedge funds join the green rush

    Friday, 14 November 2014
    Cannabis hedge funds join the green rush

    The pot business is exploding. The devotees toiling away since states started legalizing medical marijuana nearly 20 years ago now must compete in a radically different business culture. The rapid sp ...

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  • The Marlboro of marijuana

    Friday, 07 November 2014
    The Marlboro of marijuana

    Would household names really consider selling cannabis? They already have. In 1969 a Philip Morris executive wrote to the Justice Department, requesting a sample of marijuana for testing. In 1970 Bri ...

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  • Fear of cannabis commerce didn't, won't and shouldn't stop legalization

    Wednesday, 05 November 2014
    Fear of cannabis commerce didn't, won't and shouldn't stop legalization

    Three marijuana legalization initiatives were on the ballot this week, and all three won. That’s a better outcome than I was expecting. I was surprised when voters in Colorado and Washington approved ...

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    cannabis industry | oregon | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Legal marijuana could be $130 million a year business in D.C., study finds

    Wednesday, 29 October 2014
    Legal marijuana could be $130 million a year business in D.C., study finds

    If D.C. residents vote to legalize marijuana possession next week, it wouldn’t just mean a sea change in drug policy in the nation’s capital. It could also mean big business. A study by District fina ...

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  • The marijuana industry could be bigger than the NFL by 2020

    Thursday, 23 October 2014
    The marijuana industry could be bigger than the NFL by 2020

    A report from Greenwave Advisors, a "comprehensive research and financial analysis for the emerging legalized marijuana industry," projects that legal cannabis could be an industry with revenues of $ ...

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  • Race, class, and cannabis in the Caribbean

    Thursday, 23 October 2014
    Race, class, and cannabis in the Caribbean

    Given the regional discussions of allowing the use of ganja for medicinal purposes—and its eventual decriminalization—two prominent ganja advocates in the Eastern Caribbean have been arguing that thi ...

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    st vincent and grenadines | cannabis industry | caribbean | cannabis
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  • Colorado recreational marijuana industry begins major transformation

    Sunday, 29 June 2014
    Colorado recreational marijuana industry begins major transformation

    Only six months old, Colorado's recreational marijuana industry starts a transformation that could add hundreds of new pot businesses to the state and reconfigure the market's architecture. Previousl ...

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  • Dope to your door

    Friday, 20 June 2014
    Dope to your door

    Evan Cox used to deliver pizza. But 18 months ago, as he was running out of money at college in Seattle, he had a new business idea. The state of Washington was in the process of legalising the sale ...

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  • Barcelona is fighting an overdose of cannabis clubs

    Thursday, 12 June 2014
    Barcelona is fighting an overdose of cannabis clubs

    Barcelona has a new tourist attraction that some locals wish would disappear: a burgeoning number of "cannabis clubs," where people can legally buy and smoke pot. Although selling marijuana is agains ...

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    cannabis industry | cannabis clubs | spain | regulation
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  • Kazakhstan wants to attract Big Pharma to its ‘Cannabis Klondike’

    Wednesday, 15 January 2014
    Kazakhstan wants to attract Big Pharma to its ‘Cannabis Klondike’

    Despite a heavy-handed campaign against drug trafficking and related crime in the country, one Kazakh lawmaker thinks it’s time to cash in on some 140,000 stubborn hectares of wild cannabis that can ...

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    kyrgyzstan | kazakhstan | cannabis industry | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • Banks say no to marijuana money, legal or not

    Tuesday, 14 January 2014
    Banks say no to marijuana money, legal or not

    Legal marijuana merchants — mainly medical marijuana outlets but also, starting this year, shops that sell recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington — are grappling with a pressing predicamen ...

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    banking | cannabis industry | money laundering | legalization | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture?

    Tuesday, 29 October 2013
    Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture?

    The growing societal acceptance of cannabis in the U.S. has sparked what some call a "green rush" of people trying to cash in on what is already a multi-billion-dollar business. And as the marijuana ...

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    cannabis industry | colorado | california | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom?

    Monday, 06 May 2013
    Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom?

    Many Washington residents are looking to cash in on the newly legal and potentially lucrative marijuana market, which they hope will give them a new start, create jobs, and boost Washington's slumpin ...

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    cannabis industry | ballot 2012 | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia

    Friday, 29 March 2013
    The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia

    The exponential proliferation of the number of associations, clubs and other groups that distribute cannabis among their members and create new spaces for socialising, has surprised even the most opt ...

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    cannabis industry | cannabis clubs | spain | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization
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  • Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana

    Friday, 22 March 2013
    Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana

    A number of businesses in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry are trying to enlist Wall Street's help. Some entrepreneurs see marijuana heading down the same path as Prohibition, which banned the m ...

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  • State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization

    Tuesday, 19 March 2013
    State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization

    Washington state’s chief pot consultant remains a bit mysterious, but Mark Kleiman's views on legalizing pot are no mystery. He lays them out in “Marijuana Legalization,” a 2012 book he wrote with th ...

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  • Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets?

    Friday, 22 February 2013
    Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets?

    The cannabis industry is an easy target for legislatures to saddle with heavy taxes. In Washington State for instance, there is a 25% tax at three different stages of cannabis production: from the gr ...

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  • Two letters expose rift over new pot law

    Wednesday, 06 February 2013
    Two letters expose rift over new pot law

    A handful of legislators recently drew up a letter raising questions and concerns about the law, including whether it can be implemented by December as required under voter-approved Initiative 502. A ...

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    cannabis industry | ballot 2012 | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Groups seek to influence new rules for growing, selling pot

    Saturday, 05 January 2013
    Groups seek to influence new rules for growing, selling pot

    The Washington state Liquor Control Board (LCB), charged with launching the world's first regulated marijuana market for social use, expects to begin accepting applications for grower licenses April ...

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    cannabis industry | ballot 2012 | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado

    Friday, 04 January 2013
    Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado

    Vigorous regulation of a thriving medical-marijuana industry in Colorado offers the best glimpse of what is coming to Washington when it launches its voter-approved social-use market. With continuous ...

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    cannabis industry | ballot 2012 | colorado | medical cannabis | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Investors see profit potential in new pot law

    Friday, 30 November 2012
    Investors see profit potential in new pot law

    Votes in Washington and Colorado last month to legalize pot for recreational use turbocharged marijuana as a legitimate business opportunity. Business people packed a marijuana-industry conference in ...

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    cannabis industry | colorado | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud

    Wednesday, 07 November 2012
    U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud

    British Columbia’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry could take a “significant” blow now that two U.S. states – including its closest neighbour to the south – have voted to legalize marijuana. “ ...

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    cannabis industry | ballot 2012 | canada | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Pot dispensaries clouding medical marijuana's image

    Friday, 05 October 2012
    Pot dispensaries clouding medical marijuana's image

    Seattle's first-ever Medical Cannabis Cup — part gourmet weed contest, part trade show, part smoke-in — showcased the entrepreneurial drive and explosive growth of the local medical-marijuana industr ...

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  • Between collective organisation and commercialisation

    Wednesday, 08 August 2012
    Between collective organisation and commercialisation

    The last few years have witnessed a boom in new cannabis user associations in Spain. Although there are no reliable figures for them, most are known to have been created for the collective cultivatio ...

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    cannabis industry | cannabis clubs | spain | regulation | cannabis
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