cannabis

Aspen High will be a curated experience for visionaries in the marijuana and music industries Launched in 1996, the Aspen Live conference has become a must-attend event for a growing group of music industry insiders and up-and-comers who travel to the Colorado resort town every winter for...

The United States tax code offers businesses the opportunity to deduct expenses on tax returns, including items such as payroll and rent. That can significantly lower a company's tax bill. Unless you're in the marijuana industry. The reason why? Provision 280E in the Internal Revenue Code. It...

A series of deadly wildfires devastated California wineries, farms and small businesses in recent months. Many of these farms and businesses will be able to start rebuilding quickly, thanks, in part to insurance payouts and easy-to-access businesses loans. The same thing cannot be said of many...

Two years ago, Alan Gertner was head of Google's Asia-Pacific sales team in Singapore, handling more than $100 million in business. Now, he begins his day in a small Toronto office, building a cannabis brand that sells fancy smoking accessories such as vaporizers and bongs that cost up to...

Celebrate cannabis culture with a solid music lineup, art, speakers, and pot galore in its latest innovations at the world's largest cannabis competition and expo. Cannabis has shifted from a psychoactive drug enjoyed from time to time in recreational fashions to a medical necessity for many...

Marijuana is arguably the hottest and fastest-growing industry in North America. According to cannabis research firm ArcView, legal weed sales in North America jumped by 34% in 2016, and they're expected to grow by 26% per year through 2021. We could be talking about a nearly $22 billion...

I DON'T think it is a matter of IF we will legalize marijuana anymore given the Senate's seriousness on the issue and the fact that many in the House of Representatives and the general public are also anxiously waiting on the Senate to finalize the Bill. There are just three major hurdles for...

Sales of legal cannabis in North America are growing even faster than experts predicted they would. A new report from Arcview Market Research says retail cannabis sales will jump 33% over 2016's totals to hit $10 billion this year. That's a faster pace than the group had previously predicted...

Medically refractory epilepsy (MRE) patients in New York state who regularly used medical cannabis reported improvements in their health, according to a pilot survey presented here this week at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting. Researchers with Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group...

Paraguay's Congress passed a bill on Tuesday creating a state-sponsored system to import marijuana seeds and grow the plant for medical uses, a decision that followed other countries in Latin America. The landlocked South American nation had authorized the importing of cannabis oil in May...

Manitobans will be prohibited from growing marijuana for recreational purposes at home after cannabis is legalized in 2018, if the provincial government's new Safe and Responsible Retailing of Cannabis Act becomes law. The act was introduced by Justice Minister Heather Stefanson in the...

The B.C Government has unveiled details on how recreational marijuana will be distributed and sold once legalized. In a news release issued Tuesday morning, the province said it will allow both private and public sale of cannabis. The decision follows input from 48,951 British Columbians, and...

California's three state licensing authorities released their emergency regulations for cannabis last month. Those rules leave it up to cities and counties to place a cap on acreage for growers seeking a license to cultivate cannabis. "It has been a very fast and furious year with the...

Allowing adults to purchase and use marijuana at some retail facilities -- think cannabis clubs -- could reduce the risk of children getting a hold of the drug and may limit how much legal marijuana is illegally transported out of state by visitors, a Cannabis Advisory Board subcommittee...

Sonoma County has officially opened the door to the newly regulated cannabis industry, starting with a Sebastopol-area farm run by a married couple who has been producing marijuana and low-dose tinctures for nearly a decade. The Fiddler's Greens farm, founded by Shannon and Cameron Hattan...

Since the Canadian Federal government announced that cannabis, both recreational and medicinal, will be legalized on July 1, 2018, the Canadian government and provinces have found the process of figuring out distribution to be a difficult task. However, Alberta and Manitoba have developed some...

Throughout her life, Shanel Lindsey struggled with factors associated with her personal use of medical marijuana. These struggles led her to found a medical cannabis start-up called Ardent, which is booming with popularity in Boston. The sale of marijuana is a hot topic, with new legislation...

What's one of the most common misconceptions about Washington's legal cannabis industry? That it's all about 20-somethings looking for a recreational buzz. In fact, the bulk of the clients at Everett's Purple Haze are 35 to 40 and older, and come from all backgrounds and professions, says...

A leaked draft of state guidelines for operations in the Michigan Medical Marijuana industry shown at a cannabis conference in Lansing Sunday is comprehensive, cannabis experts said. Applications for medical marijuana operations licenses in Michigan go live on Dec. 15. The state said it...

Canada's Aurora Cannabis Inc. said on Monday it increased its stake in Australia-based Cann Group Ltd to 22.9 percent from 19.9 percent, its latest move to expand in the cannabis industry. Aurora, already Cann Group's largest shareholder, said it bought the shares at A$2.50 ($1.90) apiece...