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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 when only growing a few plants could sustain us. "Say I am a retired schoolteacher," he lectured. "You don't want to have to come visit your daddy...

The confusing rollout of marijuana regulations in California has been underscored in Mendocino County, where local authorities licensed a company to deliver pot only to have state police arrest two employees who were trying to do just that with nearly a ton of weed. The workers for Old Kai...

A new gold rush is sweeping California as the state prepares to launch legal marijuana sales Monday, bringing the powerful and largely underground economy finally into public view. Marijuana has long been one of California's most important cash crops, albeit one many visitors would never see...

Unions have caught a whiff of a rare opportunity to organize a whole new set of workers as recreational marijuana becomes legal in California. The United Farm Workers, Teamsters and United Food and Commercial Workers are looking to unionize the tens of thousands of potential workers involved...

There are fewer than 10 days to go before California launches its legal marketplace for the retail sale of recreational marijuana. How smoothly that transition goes will depend on how many cities and counties opt in to allow commercial cannabis business in their jurisdictions. At this...

Last month, I counseled over half a dozen clients to wind down their business operations by the end of 2017. No, I’m not a bankruptcy attorney; I’m a cannabis business and compliance attorney. And while I’m certainly not a cannabis oracle, one thing has become abundantly clear in my practice...

California voters decided last year that the sale of recreational marijuana should be made legal, beginning on Jan. 1, 2018. But Proposition 64 left many of the details to local governments and state regulators. So the last several months have been a race against the calendar, as officials have...

Progress so far . Day 28. I'm using ocean forest fox farms in 3 gallon root pouches. I want to grow and make a living someday out of it. Please inspire me! I have a 2x4 tent and grow with out my parents knowing . Don't be concerned for me I am prepared for the worst. So this grow journal...

Just weeks before California begins issuing licenses to businesses to sell marijuana for recreational and medical use, the state on Friday began accepting applications electronically through a new online system. The state Bureau of Cannabis Control is accepting applications for commercial...

Seriously though. You can start buying recreational weed from January in the state. If you are going to get a MMJ renewal, what type of benefits are you hoping to get from it? And those looking to buy one, please explain how medical marijuana patients are at a much better position than...

California is set to join the legal weed party Jan. 1 when recreational sales become official in the Golden State. The state was one of four, including Nevada, that voted in 2016 to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. With sales projected to top $5 billion once the market gets up and...

For a long time, there were no marijuana brands. Cannabis growers spent so much time trying to conceal their identity from law enforcement and potential thieves that it simply made no sense to create distinctive packaging that would make it easier to track their product. Weed nerds might...

It's an old cliché, but one doesn't find beer distributors gunning each other down in the town square in battles over market turf. Whisky distillers don't dump pollutants in streams and rivers–and bars and restaurants that serve cocktails tend to be safe places that follow modern building...

Ottawa, Canada - CannaRoyalty Corp. (CSE: CRZ) (OTCQX: CNNRF) is pleased to announce that it has executed a binding term sheet to acquire Kaya Management Inc. ("Kaya") which is the exclusive manufacturer and license holder of rights for Bhang® brand vaporizer products in California. The Company...

California released long-awaited rules Thursday that will govern the state's emerging legal marijuana industry, while potentially opening the way for larger-scale cultivation that some fear could strangle small-farm growers. The thicket of emergency regulations will allow the state to begin...

You'll have to pardon the apropos pun, but the marijuana industry is truly budding. Marijuana Business Daily's newest annual report, "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017," predicts annual legal weed growth in the U.S. of 30% in 2017, another 45% in 2018, and an aggregate of 300% between 2016 and...

A government-owned banking system in California could be the answer for cannabis businesses struggling to open bank accounts and pay their taxes. This is just one of several proposals being presented by California Treasurer John Chiang to help legitimize the state's cannabis industry from a...

California may resort to using armored cars to transport the hundreds of millions of dollars the state anticipates making in tax from marijuana sales. The suggestion was made by the state treasurer John Chiang, who said the problems anticipated from the legalization of recreational cannabis...

High taxes on legal marijuana in California could have the potential to turn many consumers away from the state's cannabis shops and toward the black market, according to a report from Fitch Ratings. The credit rating agency estimates state and local taxes on marijuana, which will become...

The California wildfires have left numerous marijuana farmers wondering how they will recover without the help of federal aid. At least 34 cannabis farms in northern California were either partially damaged or completely destroyed in the blazes and unlike wine and agriculture farms, marijuana...