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  1. Ron Strider

    Legal Marijuana Is Saving Lives In Colorado, Study Finds

    Marijuana legalization in Colorado led to a "reversal" of opiate overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. "After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more than 6% in...
  2. Ron Strider

    "Nobody Has Insurance": California Wildfires Burning Up Marijuana Farms

    Deadly wildfires in Northern California are burning up marijuana farms in the so-called Emerald Triangle. Blazes have destroyed a number of farms in Mendocino County right before legal recreational sales begin in California. Cannabis business owners who lose their crops have little...
  3. Ron Strider

    ACLU Studies Marijuana Laws, Calls For Pennsylvania To Legalize

    Even though the usage rates are nearly identical, black people are eight times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white people, and cost to Pennsylvania taxpayers to enforce marijuana laws totaled more than $225 million from 2010 to 2016. That's what the American Civil...
  4. Ron Strider

    MA: North Andover Selectmen To Discuss Marijuana Sales

    The Board of Selectmen will discuss whether to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use Monday evening. Phil DeCologero, chairman of the selectmen, said the board will not take a vote on the issue at that time. Massachusetts voters approved the legalization of recreational pot last...
  5. Ron Strider

    Northern Michigan University Offers Marijuana Degree: "Not Easy At All"

    A university in Michigan is offering an unusual degree – in marijuana. Northern Michigan University in Marquette began its medical plant chemistry program this semester, with about a dozen students in the first class, the Detroit Free Press reported . The program combines chemistry, biology...
  6. Ron Strider

    Michigan Officials Prepare For Influx Of Medical Marijuana Applications

    Officials are expecting a rush Dec. 15 when Michigan begins offering applications to people who want to start a medical marijuana business and be part of what is expected to be a $700-million-a-year industry in the state. "We may have 50. We may have 1,500. We may have 5,000," Shelly...
  7. Ron Strider

    Meet The CEO Building A Marijuana Business News Empire

    When the federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in 2011 began to scare off would-be entrepreneurs, Cassandra Farrington, CEO and co-founder of a brand new marijuana trade newsletter didn't blink. She and her business partner "kept the lights on" in their small Denver publishing...
  8. Ron Strider

    Legal Weed Is An Amazing Business Opportunity For Women

    Jane West is all about Mary Jane. The former corporate-event planner from the suburbs of Denver, Colorado founded an eponymous cannabis lifestyle brand and a pot-party planning company, Edible Events, in 2014. She believes women should be flooding the legal weed business. Now. Before men lock it...
  9. Ron Strider

    Pot Farmer's Dreams Go Up In Smoke During California Wildfires

    Andrew Lopas' plans to bring his marijuana business out of the black market with a legal, profitable and organic pot farm went up in smoke in the wildfires that have scorched Santa Rosa, California. After four decades of growing pot illegally, the 54-year-old saw an opportunity last year to...
  10. Ron Strider

    Canada: Cannabis Research Booms With Backing Of Commercial Growers

    The budding marijuana industry is spurring new research around cannabis that will have long-term effects on a variety of fields, from farming to new medicine, as companies look for solid scientific data on the substance. With the looming legalization of recreational pot next summer, and the...
  11. Ron Strider

    MA: Executives And Activists Mingle For The First Legal Cannabis Trade Show In Boston

    The fourth annual Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition (CWCB Expo) was surprisingly sober. At the Hynes Convention Center, legal cannabis startups mingled with investment groups and established companies trying to get into what they see as a burgeoning market. "It's like the...
  12. Ron Strider

    PA: Man Had About Five Pounds Of Marijuana, Drug Paraphernalia

    A New Paris man was found in possession of about 5 pounds of marijuana and drug paraphernalia during a search in September, state police said. State police in Bedford said a search of 111 Thomas Drive on Sept. 19 revealed the marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Police said they responded to...
  13. Ron Strider

    Banking Still A Hurdle For Marijuana Entrepreneurs

    What sort of issues crop up when your industry is locally legal yet federally prohibited, as is the case with marijuana businesses? Banking issues. “The banking problem is probably the most challenging hurdle for entrepreneurs who want to be involved in legal cannabis,” Marijuana Business...
  14. Ron Strider

    3D-Printed Israeli Inhaler Transforming How Medical Marijuana Is Prescribed

    Before Israel licensed medical marijuana, people with terminal illnesses would come desperate to a chin-bearded young grower, Perry Davidson. "Back then, I was picking up the cannabis in the garden, going on the bus, wrapping it up so it didn't smell, and physically giving it to the patient,"...
  15. Ron Strider

    Canada: Two Face Charges After Police Raid On Parkdale Market-Area Pot Dispensary

    A 45-year-old man and 24-year-old woman are facing charges including possession of the proceeds of crime and drug possession for the purpose of trafficking following an Ottawa Police Service drug unit raid of a marijuana dispensary on Armstrong Street, near Parkdale Avenue, on Friday. Ottawa...
  16. Ron Strider

    Growing Marijuana Industry Sparks New Research Around Cannabis, Scientists Say

    The budding marijuana industry is spurring new research around cannabis that will have long-term effects on a variety of fields, from farming to new medicine, as companies look for solid scientific data on the substance. With the looming legalization of recreational pot next summer, and the...
  17. Ron Strider

    Canada's Proposed Tax On Recreational Marijuana A Major Win For Pot Producers

    Few industries are seeing green like legal weed. According to a recently released report from Marijuana Business Daily titled "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017," the U.S. legal cannabis industry is expected to grow by about 30% in 2017, 45% the following year, and an aggregate of 300% between...
  18. Ron Strider

    ME: Marijuana Convention In Portland Bigger Than Last Year's

    April Lee made a beeline for Brian Bair's Wolf Enterprises professional financial services booth at the New England Cannabis Network's Maine Cannabis Convention on Saturday morning in Portland. Lee, who had driven up from her home in Carlstadt, New Jersey, to attend the two-day event, started...
  19. Ron Strider

    This Canadian Marijuana Stock Is A Bet On The U.S. Cannabis Market, Too

    What are the top three U.S.-based marijuana growers that are publicly traded and have market caps of at least $500 million? If you're having trouble coming up with names of the companies, don't feel bad: There aren't any U.S.-based companies that meet the criteria. If we substituted Canada...
  20. Ron Strider

    At Phoenix Cannabis Expo, Vicente Fox Talks Marijuana Legalization, Donald Trump

    Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Saturday made the case for broad-scale marijuana legalization in Arizona, telling a Phoenix crowd the days of failed drug policies were fading, despite rhetoric from President Donald Trump's White House. Speaking to hundreds of entrepreneurs, industry...
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