After interviewing so many CEO’s of pure play cannabis businesses, I thought I would report to you our readers, where CBE Press is six (6) months after our formal November 12, 2014 launch on and provide you with and update on what is coming next! When we launched www.cannabisbusinessexecutive.com, CBE’s goal was to provide our […]
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Last Word: It’s Going to Take More Than Morgan Freeman to Get People Focused on Legal Marijuana
Morgan Freeman has gotten a lot of people’s attention. The Academy Award-winning actor, who has appeared in films like The Dark Knight, The Shawshank Redemption, and Bruce Almighty (where he played God), recently told The Daily Beast that marijuana should be “legalized across the board.” We reported that here at CBE, and Freeman’s statements got a lot of attention because, […]
Marijuana in Wonderland: Making Sense of a Judge’s Anti-Cannabis Ruling
By Barry Gainsburg “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ” — Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking Glass Last week, the U.S. District Court in Northern California declined to declare the federal classification of marijuana […]
Letters to the Editor
“Sometimes, Things Ain’t What They Seem To Be”: The Prequel A couple of months ago I published a story, “Sometimes, Things Ain’t What They Seem To Be” (https://www.cannabisbusinessexecutive.com/2015/02/somethings-aint-always-seem/). Our policy at CBE Press is to accept any letter’s to the editor where the submitters identify themselves and aren’t offensive in their approach. To that end, […]
Last Word – Why Does National Media Miss the Real News on Legalizing Marijuana?
Here’s a headline I loved this week, courtesy of USA Today: A Year Later, No Refer Madness in Colorado. Yes, you know we’re in a weird media age when what DOESN’T happen is big news according to one of America’s largest national newspapers. I’m not sure exactly what USA Today expected would take place after Colorado’s […]
Last Word: Colorado Newspaper Series Shows Just How Low Cannabis Opponents Will Go
I get that there are still a great many people out there who have not jumped on the marijuana legalization bandwagon. That’s OK. Healthy debate over things we differ on is one of the things that made this country great. If someone wants to write an anti-legalization commentary, so be it. Just make sure it is […]
Ask CBE… Really Just Ask or Make Suggestions!
With a long list of Cannabis Industry experts from a variety of disciplines, the Cannabis Business Executive advisory board members and contributors are available to provide best practice information to help you with the day-to-day issues that cannabis business owners face. Whether it be about your grow, processing or dispensary challenges, ASK CBE, a bi-weekly […]
The Cannabis Staffing Industry Goes to Pot
One of the unique things about the Cannabis Industry is the clear sailing many companies have found when it comes to starting ancillary product and service offerings to serve the expanding base of licensed Producers, Processors and Retailers serving both the medical and adult use marijuana markets. As the fastest growing industry in America, according […]
Trade Show Mania: Are Cannabis Industry Events Just Getting Over Saturated?
Holy cow, which Cannabis Industry trade show, seminar, conference, meeting, networking event should I attend or exhibit at this year to get the biggest bang for my buck? If you are having difficulty answering this question, so am I, and so are hundreds of other marketing and sales directors, not to mention owners, partners and […]
Last Word – Is It Finally Time For a Pro-Legalization Senator From the Golden State?
Does it matter that the frontrunner to replace Barbara Boxer as the next U.S. Senator from California says she has “no moral objection” to legalizing the recreational use of marijuana? Given that California is expected to legalize adult-use marijuana fairly soon, I’d say that yes, it does. But what may be even more surprising about Kamala […]
IT and the Bottomline
By Rob Meagher Back in 1994, Al Gore had yet to discover the Internet and I was Publisher of Financial World (FW), a bi-weekly magazine that made its name publishing the company story (our editor at the time was Geof Smith, a Forbes alum), and for lists like the FW CEO of the Year, the […]
Last Word: Will Congress Really Let Washington, D.C. Become “The Wild West of Marijuana?”
Leave it to The Washington Post to perfectly capture what the District of Columbia is going to be like when marijuana legalization kicks in next week. Yes, there’s a good chance that Washington, D.C. WILL be “the Wild West of marijuana.” Of course, it doesn’t need to be so, but it shows — yet again — […]
What, Scooped by Another? I beg to differ!
Last week, while setting up an interview with a lab testing service CEO to do their company story, the CEO complimented what we are doing here at CBE Press, and then they mentioned that MJ Freeway, a non-publisher, constantly scooped us. Much to my chagrin, my first reaction was that, yes, they put out a […]
Sometimes, Things Aren’t Always What They Seem to Be
Editor’s Note: Last week, an email came across my desk that, I thought, would change the Cannabis Industry. Americanex, a Colorado based start-up that also lists offices in Florida and California, issued a press release that read…. From: Amercanex [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Corrected: Amercanex Announces New Partnership […]
Human Capital Management for Cannabis Producers, Processors and Retailers
Now that CBE Press has established itself as a one stop source for buyer’s (producers, processors and retailers) and sellers (ancillary service providers) to stay abreast of and share industry best practices and benchmarks, we are happy to introduce our next utilitarian content package, CBE Human Capital Management (CBE HCM). With the majority of the […]
What’s Next with CBE Press and Day 1 of ArcView San Francisco Investor Pitch Forum
Reporting from The ArcView Group Investor Pitch Forum in San Francisco, I can’t think of a better way for CBE Press to head, full tilt into the New Year, building off the energy that results when you put a group of passionate, dedicated, business professionals, entrepreneurs and investors into the same room and feature announcements […]
Letter to the Editor
From: john worthington Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: RESPONSE TO JOHN DAVIS The Struggle With Non-Compliant Cannabis Businesses in Seattle It is a complaint we hear often from compliant businesses both on the 502 and 69.51a sides that these businesses are able to undercut their prices because the non-compliant […]
Like Rip Van Winkle, Waking Up Into a New World of Cannabis
By John Hollon I was flattered when my friend and former colleague Rob Meagher reached out and asked me if I could help provide some editorial advice to his new venture Cannabis Business Executive. I’m always willing to help a friend, so I was ready and willing to lend Rob some of the editorial expertise I’ve built […]
