Items tagged with cannabis industry
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| Study: legal marijuana could generate more than 132 billion in federal tax revenue and 1 million jobs [10.01.2018] | Legalizing marijuana nationwide would create at least $132 billion in tax revenue and more than a million new jobs across the United States in the ne ... |
| Cannabis chaos — Sessions has no exit strategy for his war on drugs [07.01.2018] | One of the great social and political experiments of this decade, marijuana legalization, faces its greatest existential threat: Jeff Sessions. Twent ... |
| Marijuana stock analysts not too worried about Sessions's order just yet [04.01.2018] | Cannabis analysts weren't too worried for the most part about the decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to rescind an Obama-era policy that effe ... |
| Steve DeAngelo digs in [01.01.2018] | "We are looking in 2018 and 2019 at an extinction event for 75 percent of the existing cannabis industry in California," says cannabis activist/entre ... |
| Hippy dream now a billion-dollar industry with California set to legalise cannabis [30.12.2017] | On Monday, California, the US’s most populous state, and the world’s sixth biggest economy, will officially legalising cannabis. Overnight a shadow i ... |
| I grow pot in California for a living. I’m worried about legalization [29.12.2017] | As the daughter of a back-to-the-land homesteader and pot farmer, I learned never to speak of what my father did. We lived a simple life in times whe ... |
| Legal weed isn’t the boon small businesses thought it would be [29.12.2017] | The business of selling legal weed is big and getting bigger. North Americans spent $6.7 billion on legal cannabis last year, and some analysts think ... |
| Canadian pot growers eye global expansion [28.12.2017] | Canadian medical marijuana is setting the stage to go global. The country’s emerging legal producers have a chance to seize opportunities in other co ... |
| Californian growers and retailers brace for cannabis competition [27.12.2017] | California has long been a cannabis pioneer. The state became a hub for the drug-induced counterculture of “turn on, tune in, drop out” of the 1960s, ... |
| Canadian cannabis firm licensed to produce in Denmark [19.12.2017] | Canadian medical marijuana producer Canopy Growth said its joint venture Spectrum Cannabis has been licensed to grow pot in Denmark for sale througho ... |
| Lawmakers, pot growers say California's marijuana cultivation rules favor big corporate farms [18.12.2017] | California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be pro ... |
| Marc Emery was right; Julian Fantino was wrong [15.12.2017] | It seems absurd that Marc and Jodi Emery, who have spent years fighting the unjust laws against marijuana, in and out of prison, can’t now sell the p ... |
| The legal marijuana market is exploding — it'll hit almost $10 billion sales in this year [08.12.2017] | The market for legal marijuana is heating up in a big way. Legal marijuana sales are predicted to hit $9.7 billion in North America in 2017, accordin ... |
| Les prix du cannabis légal s'effondrent [28.11.2017] | La Suisse connaît un raz-de-marée vert, celui du cannabis légal ou cannabidiol (CBD), dont le taux de l'agent psychotrope THC est inférieur à 1%. Alo ... |
| The Swiss cannabis farm aiming to supply 'legal weed' across Europe [24.11.2017] | In fields across Switzerland the harvest time for cannabis is coming to an end, and workers are distributing the crop to shops in France and Switzerl ... |
| The price of cannabis is falling, suggesting a supply glut [16.11.2017] | In the US cannabis operations, now legitimate in many states, are forbidden from the usual business deductions and face crippling tax bills of as muc ... |
| Greece hopes its economy can get high from medical weed [14.11.2017] | Investors in medical cannabis projects are focusing on Greece, where a warm, sunny climate and potentially favorable future legislation could help th ... |
| How big tobacco, alcohol and pharma companies could enter the cannabis industry [06.11.2017] | The entrance of Constellation Brands in the cannabis industry has broken the insulation around cannabis companies — it is now incumbent upon the indu ... |
| Ready or not, recreational marijuana use is coming to Canada [04.11.2017] | Proposing legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was the easy part for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. With about eight months to g ... |
| Legalized marijuana presents opportunity of a lifetime for Canadian entrepreneurs [03.11.2017] | The modern-day prospectors in Canada's new cannabis market are working hard and cutting deals as the final eight months tick down to the day when rec ... |
| Alcohol goliath pours $190M into Canadian cannabis company [30.10.2017] | Constellation Brands, the alcohol goliath, is putting its money toward another emerging sector — cannabis-based beverages. The company plans to spend ... |
| Legal dagga process draaaags on [29.09.2017] | Businesses that want to get in on the ground floor of South Africa’s great medical marijuana revolution, or at least the legal one, are bound to find ... |
| Op-Ed: Marijuana farming – a silver bullet for rural poverty? [26.09.2017] | When marijuana farming is legalised in South Africa who will benefit? This is not just a hypothetical question. Right now, marijuana is being legally ... |
| Startups seek to cash in on cannabis, but some fear Israel will take a hit [24.09.2017] | With green in their eyes, Israeli entrepreneurs have spotted cannabis soon to be growing opportunity, and at least 700 have applied to the Israeli He ... |
| The marijuana war has gone local, and pot advocates are losing — badly [17.09.2017] | The fight over the legalization of marijuana in Massachusetts isn’t over. But one side has already gone home. Last November, a well-funded and well-o ... |
| Few Jamaicans in local ganja industry — Dr Lowe [08.09.2017] | There is a negative buzz surrounding Jamaica's budding legal ganja industry. According to Dr Henry Lowe, owner of Medicanja, “It feels like our objec ... |
| Green gold: how China quietly grew into a cannabis superpower [27.08.2017] | Thanks to government support and a long tradition, China has quietly become a superpower in hemp production and research. This growth has in part bee ... |
| Is Canada ready for legal marijuana? [24.08.2017] | The Canadian government is expected to legalize recreational marijuana by July 2018, in large part to put an end to the extensive and enduring black ... |
| This cannabis company plans to turn a California desert town into a pot paradise [04.08.2017] | American Green announced it is buying all 80 acres of Nipton, which includes its Old West-style hotel, a handful of houses, an RV park and a coffee s ... |
| Forget pot producers - here's a better way for investors to cash in on cannabis legalization [26.07.2017] | A big chunk of the capital invested in the flood of cannabis-related startups is certain to go down the drain, and it could take years to wring real ... |
| California considering creating a state-run bank for cannabis businesses [16.07.2017] | California government, financial and marijuana business leaders met last week in a far-from-resolved debate over whether a state-run bank could be th ... |
| Cannabis cash conundrum: Some businesses bury money, others truck it to a federal vault [12.07.2017] | With recreational use set to become legal next year under Proposition 64, cannabis sales in the state are expected to top $7.5 billion in 2020, up fr ... |
| Canada’s biggest licensed weed producer is losing money [27.06.2017] | Canada’s largest licensed cannabis producer seems to have no problem driving in sales, but it is still struggling to get to profit territory. Canopy ... |
| U.K. tobacco giant gets medicinal cannabis expertise [13.06.2017] | Imperial Brands Plc gained the services of a leader in the field of medicinal cannabis as the British tobacco manufacturer seeks to further its push ... |
| Federal bills from Colorado legislators seek to shield state marijuana laws, open banking [18.05.2017] | Colorado federal lawmakers amplified efforts to protect state-enacted marijuana laws and cannabis businesses supporting banking legislation for the m ... |
| Bob Marley, ganja and the green stuff – is selling Brand Jamaica just a pipe dream? [03.05.2017] | When Bob Marley and the Wailers first performed Get Up, Stand Up to a restive 1970s Jamaica, never could they have guessed that the government would ... |
| Early marijuana sales ‘unbelievably high’ after legalization: U.S. consultant [30.04.2017] | A U.S. consultant hired by Ottawa to assess Canada’s eventual recreational pot market says jurisdictions that regulate cannabis should expect “unbeli ... |
| New federal bill would allow banking for marijuana businesses [27.04.2017] | Marijuana businesses can’t openly bank and congressman Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., is hoping to change that. Perlmutter on Thursday introduced the Secure ... |
| Canada’s plan to be the world leader in legal weed [20.04.2017] | Cannabis is already big business in Canada. The drug was approved for medicinal use 20 years ago, and almost 30 percent of young adults say they use ... |
| Marijuana goes industrial in California [15.04.2017] | The vast and fertile Salinas valley is often called the salad bowl of the nation for the countless heads of lettuce growing across its floor. Now Cal ... |
| The world’s first pot-focused exchange-traded fund [10.04.2017] | The launch of the world’s first cannabis-focused exchange-traded fund (ETF), on the Toronto Stock Exchange, is welcome news to aficionados of marijua ... |
| Liberals set to table marijuana legislation, but key details need to be resolved [10.04.2017] | The federal government will table a bill to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday that is expected to tightly control the ability of producers ... |
| Over-regulation impeding bloom of Jamaican cannabis industry [04.04.2017] | Over-regulation of Jamaica’s cannabis industry is deterring farmers from entering the legal market, and impeding development - indicating why drug po ... |
| Big Pharma's anti-marijuana stance aims to squash the competition, activists say [03.04.2017] | As marijuana legalization swept the US in November, Arizona was alone in its rejection of legal weed. There, a pharmaceutical company called Insys wa ... |
| Marijuana industry faces challenge in gaining Canadians’ trust, survey finds [29.03.2017] | Marijuana stocks may have leapt higher on the news of Ottawa’s plans to legalize the drug by next year, but the industry is facing an uphill battle i ... |
| Pot legalization: Canada doesn’t need another profit-seeking drug industry [28.03.2017] | When Canadians have expressed concerns about upcoming cannabis legalization, the government has assured them that the legal cannabis industry will be ... |
| Israel seeks piece of projected $50 billion medical marijuana market [27.03.2017] | Israel, a leader in marijuana research and health technology, is attracting international investment as it tries to position itself as a cutting-edge ... |
| Marijuana stocks drop as Trudeau’s pot czar says Canada won’t rush into legalization [07.03.2017] | As investors flock to Canada’s burgeoning marijuana sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is signaling recreational pot sales aren’t imm ... |
| ‘Building the airplane while it’s being flown’ [30.01.2017] | In the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern Cali ... |
| Israel moves to decriminalize marijuana use [26.01.2017] | Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announces support for new policy for enforcing marijuana use, which favors fines and educational initiatives, wi ... |
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