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Last Word: As Legalization in LA Shows, We Can’t Trust Others to Do the Right Thing

It's hard to find a more screwed up situation with medical marijuana than currently exists in Los Angeles. An editorial in the Los Angeles Times zeroed in on the crux of the problem in California's largest city: Los Angeles failed…

Last Word: 2016 The Big Year!

January 3, 2016
John Hollon
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Finally! It's 2016. This is the year we keep hearing about, the year when the Cannabis Industry really gains momentum and when the pressure on the Federal Government to make moves to ease up on the marijuana community finally happen.…

The Marijuana Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?

December 28, 2015
Matt Karnes
Cannabis Investments, News & Insights, Opinions
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The velocity and breadth of growth in the marijuana industry will, for the most part, be determined by the pace of state and, eventually, national legalization. Eventual rescheduling or de-listing of marijuana as a federally prohibited drug will hopefully lead…

Growing Up

By Matt Walstatter What do almost all cannabis companies — producers, processors, retailers, wholesalers and ancillary — have in common? We are all young companies. Some of us have been growing and selling cannabis for quite a while, but not…

Here’s Hoping 2016 Is a Little Better for the Cannabis Industry

December 21, 2015
John Hollon
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Here's my New Year's wish: I hope that 2016 is a little better year for the Cannabis Industry. What??? I know; some of you are thinking that it has actually been a good year for the marijuana trade, that more states…

Paranoia and the Pot Biz: They Will Be Forever Intertwined

December 8, 2015
Allen St. Pierre
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By Allen St. Pierre There is not a good word in English if you’re paranoid, but right to be so. For the past 50 years or so, the hundreds of thousands of folks in the cannabis business have had the most…

Last Word: Does It Really Matter if we Call it Cannabis, Instead of Marijuana?

December 7, 2015
John Hollon
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As someone who has spent a lifetime working as an editor, I know all too well that words really DO have meaning And, that's why the growing debate over the use of the word "marijuana" is no minor thing. Westword, the…

What I Am Thankful For (And Yes, It’s a Pretty Long List!)

November 23, 2015
Rob Meagher
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As the "Scooter," Phil Rizzuto, the former New York Yankee shortstop, Hall of Famer, and longtime baseball broadcaster used to say when a Yankee ballplayer made a great play, "Holy Cow" So, I am saying my own " Holy Cow"…

Last Word: We Should Love the Smell of Cannabis in the Morning – It Smells Like Freedom

November 23, 2015
John Hollon
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This is NOT one of the major issues of our time -- but it is pretty amusing. You know what I'm talking about: People complaining about the increasing smell of marijuana now that it has become legal (in some form,…

The View from the Emerald Triangle

By Hezekiah Allen For generations, rural communities in California have lived timeless lives. As consolidation swept the nation and family farms gave way to industrial agriculture, the cannabis industry was insulated by a geo-politcs. The politics of prohibition forced cultivators…

It’s High Time to Finally Legitimize Our Industry

Recent arrests in Buffalo really got me thinking. Two postal workers were accused of taking bribes to deliver boxes filled with marijuana. Evidently these boxes were being shipped via the U.S. Postal Service from the West Coast to the addresses…

Does the “American Way” Still Exist? Why I’d Vote “No” on Ohio’s Issue 3

October 25, 2015
Rob Meagher
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Fair competition, the goal of U.S. antitrust law in the form of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which prohibits agreements in restraint of trade and abuse of monopoly power, gives the Department of Justice the mandate to go to…

Fellow Ohioans: If Issue 3 Passes, What Happens on November 4?

By Andy Joseph Lack of a detailed plan, untried approach, fast roll-out, unprecedented lobbying, and legislative hand-tying will have disastrous consequences for legalization in Ohio, with national repercussions. I have been a Ohio resident all of my life, and have…

A Second Look at Ohio: Why It’s Worth Supporting

by Keith Stroup With the 2015 election day only two weeks away, and prodded by our friend Russ Belville at 420 Radio for failing to more enthusiastically embrace Issue 3 in Ohio, this seemed like a good time to take…

You Better Get Ready For “The California Show … Starring California”

In 1996, California was the first state to legalize medical cannabis with Proposition 215. Many felt at the time that this would signal the end of prohibition, and nearly 20 years later, they are nearly correct. The problem is this:…