By Allen St. Pierre Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and inescapable socio-political changes underway first at the state, and soon, federal […]
Marijuana Policy Project (MPP)
Marijuana Policy Project Adds Three New Members to Board of Directors
PRESS RELEASE The new board members include former Colorado State House Leader and Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace, who will also serve as a senior policy advisor; Sheri Orlowitz, a former Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Artemis Holdings Group; and Les Szabo, who will represent Dr. Bronner’s WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest marijuana policy […]
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America
Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and inescapable socio-political changes underway first at the state, and soon, federal level regarding cannabis policy. […]
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America
Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and inescapable socio-political changes underway first at the state, and soon, federal level regarding cannabis policy. […]
Marijuana Policy Project Retains Mason Tvert to Serve as National Spokesperson, Coordinate Media Relations
PRESS RELEASE Tvert, a partner at VS Strategies, co-directed the successful 2012 Colorado legalization initiative campaign and helped pass several successful marijuana policy reforms as MPP’s communications director from 2013-2017 WASHINGTON — The Marijuana Policy Project announced Friday it has retained Mason Tvert of VS Strategies to serve as its national spokesperson and coordinate media relations […]
Smith’s Act of Contrition and the Battle to be “The Voice of the Cannabis Industry”
Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of announcements and articles that are connected to the behind the scenes posturing taking place to determine the “Voice of the Cannabis Industry”. Two weeks ago, we all read about the deal struck between Trump and Cory Gardner of Colorado and CBE even posted an […]
Conflict of Interest and the Seven Deadly Sins
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term conflict of interest as: a conflict between the private interests and the official responsibilities of a person in a position of trust It goes on to include the legal definition of conflict of interest as follows:  1: a conflict between the private interests and the official or professional […]
Two Board Members Resign at NCIA
Breaking News Amid allegations of multiple problems at the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) that went public in the pages of CBE Press over the past couple of weeks, two board members have officially resigned. CBE Press has learned that Neal Levine, Senior VP of Government Affairs at LivWell Enlightened Health, has stepped down as […]
Feds Can’t Interfere: Appropriations Committee Approves Amendment Again, Adds Two More States
In a move closely watched by the cannabis industry, an amendment by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was approved Thursday, giving another year of protection from federal interference to medical marijuana businesses in states where it has been legalized. The amendment, the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment (see link here) amends the Commerce, […]
