Category: Cannabusiness

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Cannabis business news, commentary and analysis

July 17, 2013
07/17/2013
Seattle Limits Marijuana Grows, WA Adviser Considers THC Cap

Seattle Limits Marijuana Grows, WA Adviser Considers THC Cap

In an article on seattlepi.com, Jake Ellison notes that Washington’s Liquor Control Board has set no limits on the size of recreational marijuana grows. As far as...
July 17, 2013
07/17/2013
MMJ Advocates in Jackson, MI to Protest Dispensary Ban

MMJ Advocates in Jackson, MI to Protest Dispensary Ban

Joe Cain, Owner of the Medical Marijuana Farmer’s Market, is organizing a protest for August 13, 2013. That is when the Jackson city council will revisit the...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
CannaBusiness: Pulse Glass, Setting a Higher Standard

CannaBusiness: Pulse Glass, Setting a Higher Standard

Pulse Glass impressed me greatly at the Kush Expo. Their booth caught my eye early on, with beautifully crafted glass work displayed against a black tablecloth with...
By: Mercedys
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Washington Expresses More Concern Over Cannabis Extracts

Washington Expresses More Concern Over Cannabis Extracts

When Washington’s Liquor Control Board released its draft rules, it ruled that cannabis extracts and concentrates (such as hash and hash oils) can’t be sold in retail...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
30,000 Square Foot Dispensary Proposed in Massachusetts

30,000 Square Foot Dispensary Proposed in Massachusetts

John Glowik has been meeting with officials in Grafton, Massachusetts to discuss his proposal to open a 30,000 square foot medical marijuana dispensary in a local business...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Oregon Dispensary Law Won’t Stop Pending Cases

Oregon Dispensary Law Won’t Stop Pending Cases

Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Boulder Wants Even More Sales Tax on Recreational Marijuana

Boulder Wants Even More Sales Tax on Recreational Marijuana

The Boulder City Council will hear a proposal today that would add an additional 10% sales tax (on top of the 10% state marijuana tax and 6.3%...
July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Farmer’s Markets for Legal Weed?

Farmer’s Markets for Legal Weed?

Justin Hartfield, owner of the popular medical marijuana listing service weedmaps.com, seeks to expand his influence by potentially bringing a farmer’s market type of approach to the purchase of medical weed....
July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Legislation Introduced to Ease Banking for Marijuana Business

Legislation Introduced to Ease Banking for Marijuana Business

For medical marijuana dispensary owners and the patients who rely on them for access to their medicine, Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s (D) bill is common sense. Perlmutter introduced legislation...
July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Piece of the Week | B$ – Worked Mini Tubes

Piece of the Week | B$ – Worked Mini Tubes

B$ – Worked Mini Tubes Just in time for 710, it is with privilege and pleasure that I present a Piece of the Week from a decade-strong...
July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush

Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush

As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.10)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.10)

A federal medical marijuana banking bill was introduced, an Oregon bill that would allow and regulate dispensaries heads to the governor’s desk, Berkeley and Oakland fight the...
July 10, 2013
07/10/2013
Reflections From the Kush Expo

Reflections From the Kush Expo

I attended my first cannabis-industry event this weekend: The Kush Expo, in Anaheim, CA. Thousands came together for two days to network, explore products / services available on...
By: Mercedys
July 10, 2013
07/10/2013
GW Pharmaceuticals, Legal Marijuana Monopoly, Launches Sativex Spray in Italy

GW Pharmaceuticals, Legal Marijuana Monopoly, Launches Sativex Spray in Italy

GW Pharmaceuticals has launched their Sativex cannabis extract spray in Italy for use by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Beware of GW’s creeping monopoly on medical marijauna in...
July 10, 2013
07/10/2013
Seattle Company Offering Marijuana Sampling Tours

Seattle Company Offering Marijuana Sampling Tours

Now that cannabis consumers are expected to flock to Washington and Colorado, entrepenuers are getting creative with ways to cash in on “the Green Rush” without risking...
July 10, 2013
07/10/2013
MI Medical Marijuana Service Center Raided Twice in One Week

MI Medical Marijuana Service Center Raided Twice in One Week

Hydro World, a medical marijuana service center in Jackson, Michigan, was raided by police on July 1. After receiving word that the center was back in operation,...
July 10, 2013
07/10/2013
NORML Meets With Former Mexican President on Cannabis Legalization

NORML Meets With Former Mexican President on Cannabis Legalization

At a meeting with drug reform advocates in San Francisco, former Mexican President Fox expressed support for California’s efforts to legally regulate cannabis, medical and otherwise. He...
July 9, 2013
07/09/2013
710 – Potland’s New Holiday

710 – Potland’s New Holiday

With the advent of cannabis concentrates and oils and their top billing among cannabis concoctions, celebrations of the oil, or “710” have popped up here in Portland,...
By: Anna Diaz
July 9, 2013
07/09/2013
Washington Releases Marijuana Market Regulations

Washington Releases Marijuana Market Regulations

The Washington State Liquor Control Board released its final proposed regulations for the state’s adult marijuana industry on July 3. Among the proposed rules are requirements that the industry ensure public...
July 9, 2013
07/09/2013
Oregon to License Medicinal Cannabis Dispensaries

Oregon to License Medicinal Cannabis Dispensaries

Members of the Oregon House and Senate have given final approval to House Bill 3460, which licenses medicinal cannabis dispensaries statewide. Senate members approved an amended version of the bill by...