Tag: cannabis industry
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Ganja interests wary of internal business rivalry
Saturday, 31 January 2015Despite 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 2015Israel 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 2015Moving 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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Report predicts 18 states will legalize pot by 2020
Sunday, 25 January 2015A 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 2015Marijuana 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 2015The 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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Canadian lawyers scent profit as medical marijuana industry prepares to go legit
Tuesday, 06 January 2015Since 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 2014The 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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France plans to stub out e-joints
Monday, 15 December 2014France 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 2014The 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 2014Last 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 2014Marijuana 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 2014It 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 2014The 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 2014The 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 2014Would 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 2014Three 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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Legal marijuana could be $130 million a year business in D.C., study finds
Wednesday, 29 October 2014If 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 2014A 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 2014Given 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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Colorado recreational marijuana industry begins major transformation
Sunday, 29 June 2014Only 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 2014Evan 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 2014Barcelona 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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Kazakhstan wants to attract Big Pharma to its ‘Cannabis Klondike’
Wednesday, 15 January 2014Despite 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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Banks say no to marijuana money, legal or not
Tuesday, 14 January 2014Legal 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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Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture?
Tuesday, 29 October 2013The 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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Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom?
Monday, 06 May 2013Many 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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The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia
Friday, 29 March 2013The 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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Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana
Friday, 22 March 2013A 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 2013Washington 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 2013The 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 2013A 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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Groups seek to influence new rules for growing, selling pot
Saturday, 05 January 2013The 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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Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado
Friday, 04 January 2013Vigorous 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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Investors see profit potential in new pot law
Friday, 30 November 2012Votes 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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U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud
Wednesday, 07 November 2012British 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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Pot dispensaries clouding medical marijuana's image
Friday, 05 October 2012Seattle'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 2012The 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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