When Mitch Lowe, a co-founder of Netflix, joined Medbox at the very top of the cannabis stock bubble in 2014, the company pointed to his entrepreneurial experience gained at...
Phil Silvestri posted his views on the Canna Law Blog, suggesting to license holders in Nevada that they consider the strong near-term demand for licenses in the state and...
Aaron Justis is president of Buds & Roses Collective, Inc., a “licensed” dispensary in the City of Los Angeles, and is a founding member of NCIA, where he currently...
Tantalus Labs is developing a new generation of cannabis-tailored closed greenhouses in British Columbia. The company is awaiting licensing from Health Canada. It’s Managing Director, Dan Sutton, gave a TEDx...
Via email from MPP: Mississippi bans the Marijuana Policy Project Dear MPP supporter, The Mississippi government is saying that MPP is prohibited from raising money in that state because...
Adam Orens of Marijuana Policy Group dives into impact studies for the state of Colorado. Topics covered: How much cannabis is purchased in dispensaries How much cannabis super-users purchase,...
Eric Brandstad is the founder of Forever Flowering Greenhouses and a pioneer of light deprivation techniques for cannabis growers. Light deprivation essentially involves tricking a plant into thinking the...
Following a powerful keynote speech by Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann, attendees at the Cannabis Private Investment Summit, organized by Noa Kahner of Kahner Global, were treated...
One of the most vexing challenges for the cannabis industry is how to fund initiatives to change the laws. A leader on this front has been Marijuana Policy Project (MPP),...
Brian Vicente of Vicente Sederberg LLC was a key advocate and campaigner for Colorado’s Amendment 64, which called to regulate marijuana like alcohol. As one of the primary authors...
While there are high expectations that Canada will adopt legal cannabis for adult use, it is unclear how the program will develop. On its Q2 conference call today, Canopy...
Jonathan Zaid, who heads Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana (CFAMM), is probably best known for his victory in gaining access earlier this year to insurance reimbursement for...
Alison Marbury of Canna Law Group posted a great article on the very complicated issues surrounding patents and trademarks in the cannabis industry. She notes: Ownership of IP in...
I was fortunate to meet Constance Finley, CEO and Founder, Constance Therapeutics at a conference in Denver in October. Already familiar with her as a leader in the industry, my quick...
The National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) promotes the growth of a responsible and legitimate cannabis industry and works for a favorable social, economic, and legal environment for that industry...
Maureen McNamara is the Founder and Chief Facilitator with Cannabis Trainers™; a corporation founded to create and deliver training solutions for the Cannabis Industry. In an article published at...
On October 28th, CanopyBoulder CEO Patrick Rea addressed an audience in NYC at the High NY event, Pot, Parenting & Private Equity, which was held at Impact Hub. High NY is...
Dr. Donald Land is the Chief Scientific Consultant for Steep Hill, one of the leading scientific cannabis analysis labs in the world. He is also a Professor of Chemistry...
Jen Bernstein has been Managing Editor at High Times for the past four years. She lays out the case for the cannabis industry to regulate itself. The rise of...
Brendan Kennedy, CEO of Seattle-based private equity firm Privateer Holdings, one of the fifteen “marijuana money managers” profiled at New Cannabis Ventures and a pioneer investor in the cannabis industry, spoke at...
Andy Williams, founder and CEO of Medicine Man Denver and co-star of MSNBC’s The Pot Barons of Colorado shares his insight into being a cannabis entrepreneur, raising money, creating...
The ink isn’t even dry on the recent historic legislation to regulate California’s medical marijuana market two decades after its inception, but a lawsuit has already been filed....
Jodie Emery and her husband, Marc, define the cannabis culture in Vancouver and perhaps all of Canada. The couple own and operate the aptly named Cannabis Culture website along with...
Hilary Bricken, a lawyer at Harris, Moure PLLC in Seattle and part of its Canna Law Group practice and who is deeply entrenched in the cannabis industry, takes a look at...
Trina Fraser, a partner at BrazeauSeller.LLP, a law firm in Ottawa, Ontario, has been following Canada’s MMPR system since its inception and has worked with clients in the application process....
