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In the shadowy marketplace of quasi-legal cannabis, cash rules. North Bay cultivators, processors, distributors and dispensaries move product and transact millions of dollars' worth of business, but few people accept digital payments. Payments happen with stacks of cash - one form of green for...

The Colorado cannabis industry has quickly gone from bud to full flower, as indicated by a new in-depth data analysis by the Marijuana Policy Group. Using a new "Marijuana Impact Model" they say is the first to "accurately characterize how this industry impacts the overall state economy," the...

By most accounts, the marijuana industry is growing like a weed. Since California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis in 1996, two dozen additional states have also legalized medical pot, and four states - Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska - along with Washington, D.C...

In California, the city of Oakland was the first to regulate and tax medical marijuana dispensaries. Now, some city leaders see the industry's profits and are proposing to take a bigger piece of the action. The Oakland City Council is voting later this month on a pot profit-taking plan...

Cannabis connoisseurs won't be the only ones rejoicing if voters legalize recreational marijuana this election. Expect Silicon Valley's burgeoning class of pot entrepreneurs to join the party. Startups are cropping up throughout the Bay Area that put a signature Valley spin on the age-old...

In a climate of race and gender storms, much of it driven by political discourse, a quiet one is brewing in the emerging cannabis industry, which recorded $6 billion in sales during 2015. According to the most current data from ArcView Market Research, those sales represent a $4 billion increase...

In 2015, the legal marijuana industry in Colorado created more than 18,000 new full-time jobs and generated $2.4 billion in economic activity, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of the economics of legal cannabis in the state. The study, conducted by the economic consulting firm...

The future of the Desert Hot Springs business community is bright, at least according to residents and business owners who attended the city's business summit. While the event Wednesday didn't focus exclusively on the cannabis industry, it certainly stood out as cultivators talked about the...

The question on the table: How to create a more sustainable cannabis industry? Over 200 people gathered at the Colorado Convention Center for Denver's Cannabis Sustainability Symposium on October 26, attending panels on a variety of issues related to environmental efficiency and discussing how...

Cannabis has been part of human culture for millennia, and is still an important part of the day-to-day life of millions of people worldwide. However, in much of the world, a century-old stigma has established a harsh legal and social climate for the recreational and medical use of the...

Several times per month someone will ask me how can they break into the cannabis industry. They've heard how lucrative dispensaries are, and often people believe that that's the only place to enter. Not true! Any of your existing skills and expertise can be aligned with the cannabis industry...

Colorado's marijuana industry generated a whopping $2.39 billion last year, according to a new report from the research collaborative The Marijuana Policy Group. If the numbers are right, Colorado's still budding cannabis industry is already worth more than the much-celebrated craft beer...

With five states voting on marijuana legalization next month, this is a pivotal year for marijuana policy no matter which way the contests turn out. The results will determine whether marijuana reform gains momentum heading into the next presidential administration or whether the pace of change...

Support for weed legalization in the US recently hit an all-time high, but looking at the industry, it's been a long time coming. Sixty-percent of Americans - up from 35% in 2005 - now support legalization, according to a Gallup poll from Wednesday. In addition, legal marijuana is on the...

A hip new industry is attracting excited workers, but ongoing regulations might block some from working in the new field. To work in a licensed cannabis business in the state of Alaska, employees have to pass a training course for a marijuana handler's permit. Proposed permit requirements...

Opposition Spokesman on Industry, Anthony Hylton, is calling for the government to articulate a clear vision and policy for the development of the legal medical marijuana industry. This follows an online media report that investors are being frustrated by the bureaucratic inertia within the...

Following months of negotiations and various offers, Germany-based Bayer has finally sealed the deal with Monsanto, purchasing the seed giant for $66 billion. The merger is reported to be the largest all-cash deal on record. The purchase means a lot of things, and none of them good for...

Montana's Commissioner of Political Practices on Tuesday dismissed a complaint that alleged campaign finance violations by the group supporting an initiative to loosen restrictions on medical marijuana. The complaint was filed by SafeMontana, a group formed by Billings businessman Steve Zabawa...

Montana's Commissioner of Political Practices on Tuesday dismissed a complaint that alleged campaign finance violations by the group supporting an initiative to loosen restrictions on medical marijuana. The complaint was filed by SafeMontana, a group formed by Billings businessman Steve Zabawa...

Every other Tuesday for the past several months, a group known as the "Cannabis Caucus" has gathered in the downtown offices of a leading lobbying firm to discuss, over takeout lunches, the latest political news around marijuana. Reporters aren't allowed into the meetings, but participants...