Some Alberta cannabis cultivators will be fuelling winter Olympic bobsleds instead of bongs. Industrial hemp fibre, processed in Calgary from cannabis plants grown in southern Alberta, will help pave the way for safe, stable bobsled and luge runs at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. Last week, the first 163-kilogram shipment of Canadian Greenfield Technologies’ NForce-Fiber […]
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At 89, legendary psychiatrist and marijuana advocate still wonders about Harvard professorship
“I want a goddamn strong statement on marijuana,” the distinctive voice on the tape growls. “I mean, one on marijuana that just tears the ass out of them.” It was May 1971, and Richard Nixon was fuming over a review included in his morning news summary of the book “Marihuana Reconsidered,” in which 42-year-old Harvard […]
GfK MRI Measuring Cannabis Use in Ongoing Nationwide Study
PRESS RELEASE Top-quality consumer research now covers both recreational, medical consumption The new questions are now in the field, with data scheduled to become available next March; MRI is capturing recreational marijuana use within the past 6 months, and medical use in the last year. MRI clients will be able to analyze the new cannabis […]
Green Thumb Industries (GTI) Opens RISE Joppa, the First Medical Cannabis Dispensary in Harford County, on April 27
PRESS RELEASE RISE Joppa Joins RISE Silver Spring and RISE Bethesda as Third GTI Dispensary in Maryland Chicago and Joppa, Md., April 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Green Thumb Industries (GTI), a national cannabis cultivator and dispensary operator dedicated to providing dignified access to safe and effective cannabis, will welcome patients on April 27 at […]
Green Thumb Industries (GTI) Named a Finalist for Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work List
PRESS RELEASE Company Expects to Double Workforce in 2018 By Adding 250 Jobs Chicago (March 26, 2018) – Green Thumb Industries (GTI), a national cannabis cultivator and dispensary operator dedicated to providing dignified access to safe and effective cannabis, has been named a finalist for the Crain’s Chicago Business Best Places to Work List 2018 […]
Who Are You In The Cannabis Industry?
When most people say they have been involved in an industry for five years, they usually are considered new to that industry. In the cannabis industry, five years is considered a lifetime because as we all know the business of cannabis is really no more than ten years old. Back when I started, there were […]
Blue Line Protection Group Partners with Hypur for Five-State Expansion to Serve the Legal Cannabis Industry
PRESS RELEASE Denver, CO, Jan. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Blue Line Protection Group, Inc. (OTCPink: BLPG) is proud to announce a partnership with Hypur, a financial technology company in Scottsdale, Arizona. This agreement will allow Blue Line to expand into five additional states with marijuana-related business (MRB) and money service business (MSB) markets over […]
Seed-to-Sale Scorecard: A Look at 2016 and Beyond
By Rob Meagher Back in late January 2016, CBE published its first Seed-to-Sale state and local government scorecard to take a look at what appeared to have become a three-horse race based on those up-to-date results. We projected that the competition for local and state government traceability systems (seed-to-sale) and point of sale (POS) software would heat up in […]
Colorado Gov Hickenlooper Shares His Marijuana Legalization Experience With California Lawmakers
Colorado’s governor played sage to California on Tuesday, warning lawmakers that their state has a “steep hill” ahead in legalizing recreational marijuana and urging them to pay close attention to aspects such as home-grow regulations, pesticides and public safety. Hickenlooper addressed California lawmakers in Sacramento to share his lessons learned and words of wisdom from […]
How to Cultivate Loyal Facebook Fans for Your Cannabis Business
By Celeste Miranda Without a community, all you have is a space on the Internet. The days are no longer when you post to a blog and get 150 comments. Communities are no longer as visible or close, having given way too many social platforms in existence. Conversations that were in blogs have been driven […]
