Category: Cannabusiness

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Cannabis business news, commentary and analysis

January 7, 2014
01/07/2014
High Times Launches Private Equity Fund For Cannabusinesses

High Times Launches Private Equity Fund For Cannabusinesses

High Times magazine launched a private equity fund for cannabusinesses, hoping to raise $100 million over the next 2 years to invest in the industry.
January 6, 2014
01/06/2014
Weed Stocks Skyrocket After Colorado Sells $1M on First Day

Weed Stocks Skyrocket After Colorado Sells $1M on First Day

Weed stocks have shot up over the past week after the incredible amount of business legal marijuana shops have done since January 1.
January 6, 2014
01/06/2014
What’s in a Name? Ask the Denver Post

What’s in a Name? Ask the Denver Post

A couple of weeks ago, just in time for recreational sales to begin in Colorado, the Denver Post launched its cannabis coverage blog The Cannabist, a sleek,...
January 6, 2014
01/06/2014
Four Hot Tips for Buying Legal Weed in Colorado Today

Four Hot Tips for Buying Legal Weed in Colorado Today

As just about everyone in the world has heard at this point, Colorado became the first state in the nation to allow the sales of recreational marijuana...
January 6, 2014
01/06/2014
Colorado State Medical Marijuana Card Fee Drop Will Help Patients Retain Fair Access

Colorado State Medical Marijuana Card Fee Drop Will Help Patients Retain Fair Access

A couple of weeks ago the state of Colorado announced that starting in February 2014, the fee to be on the medical marijuana registry and to purchase...
January 3, 2014
01/03/2014
Open for Business

Open for Business

It’s been exactly nine years since MPP provided me with a grant to move to Colorado and begin laying the groundwork for a future statewide ballot initiative...
January 3, 2014
01/03/2014
Pot Prices – December 2013

Pot Prices – December 2013

Pot Prices from High Times: US prices and kind prices rose slightly, while mids held steady and schwag dropped.
January 2, 2014
01/02/2014
Love Flies Out the Door When Money Comes in the Window

Love Flies Out the Door When Money Comes in the Window

Old Hippie discusses the aggression against the cannabis movement, from within as well as from outsiders, and the money that motivates the aggressors.
January 2, 2014
01/02/2014
Weedist Women: Megan Schwarting

Weedist Women: Megan Schwarting

Weedists: Meet Megan Schwarting “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Megan Schwarting and her husband, Ben, started...
By: Anna Diaz
December 31, 2013
12/31/2013
The Countdown to Legal Cannabis Retail Sales Has Begun

The Countdown to Legal Cannabis Retail Sales Has Begun

The eyes and ears of the national and international media will be focused on Colorado on New Year’s Day as the nation’s first modern state-licensed retail cannabis...
December 31, 2013
12/31/2013
Nevada Officials Will Miss Medical Marijuana Deadline

Nevada Officials Will Miss Medical Marijuana Deadline

Nevada officials say that regulations will not be in place by April 1, the date applicants were supposed to be able to file for licenses for medical...
December 30, 2013
12/30/2013
A Whole New World: Legal Pot Sales Pit Patients vs Consumers

A Whole New World: Legal Pot Sales Pit Patients vs Consumers

And so it begins. On the first day of 2014, the cannabis policy battle lines decisively shift. No longer strictly a fight between drug warriors and POWs,...
December 30, 2013
12/30/2013
Yes on 64 to Host First Legal Marijuana Sale in Colorado

Yes on 64 to Host First Legal Marijuana Sale in Colorado

Leaders of the campaign that made marijuana legal in Colorado will gather January 1 at 3-D (Denver’s Discreet Dispensary) — a licensed retail marijuana store with on-site...
December 30, 2013
12/30/2013
Banking Regulations Will Mean Better Service for Cannabis Patients and (Now) Customers

Banking Regulations Will Mean Better Service for Cannabis Patients and (Now) Customers

Last week, a banking meeting took place in Washington DC regarding regulations that currently exist that make it difficult for medical marijuana business to have normal access to banking...
December 27, 2013
12/27/2013
Ashley Kilroy Becomes Denver Marijuana Czar Jan 1 as Recreational Sales Begin

Ashley Kilroy Becomes Denver Marijuana Czar Jan 1 as Recreational Sales Begin

When recreational marijuana sales in Colorado become legal next week, Denver’s new marijuana czar will be ready. Ashley Kilroy was appointed Denver’s Executive Director of Marijuana Policy by...
December 27, 2013
12/27/2013
Drive-Through Dispensaries Coming to Chicago

Drive-Through Dispensaries Coming to Chicago

Naperville, Illinois has approved drive-through dispensaries in the city.
December 26, 2013
12/26/2013
Colorado Issues First State Retail Marijuana Licenses

Colorado Issues First State Retail Marijuana Licenses

The Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division mailed out almost 350 retail marijuana licenses Monday.
December 26, 2013
12/26/2013
High Scientist: Check out Zeoform, A New Plastic Alternative Made from Hemp

High Scientist: Check out Zeoform, A New Plastic Alternative Made from Hemp

Hemp has been around for centuries in as many varied uses as can be possible for a single material. After being totally illegal in the United States...
December 24, 2013
12/24/2013
Delaware Governor Needs to Ease Plant Limits

Delaware Governor Needs to Ease Plant Limits

MPP welcomed Delaware Gov. Jack Markell’s August announcement that he would implement the compassion center program, but our enthusiasm was tempered by the fact that he did...
December 23, 2013
12/23/2013
13 Reasons Marijuana Just Had The Best Year Ever

13 Reasons Marijuana Just Had The Best Year Ever

Matt Ferner lists the 13 reasons 2013 has been the best year ever for marijuana (and it’s consumers).