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Blue Line Protection Group trains security personnel to protect your weed, and it's hiring. The cannabis security company is hosting a career fair at its new Denver headquarters at 5765 Logan Street from noon to 7 p.m. on Monday, August 22 - which means today. Blue Line has seen an increased...

The cannabis industry is growing up, and it would be tough to imagine more convincing proof than Microsoft's recent announcement that it's getting involved. Though the software giant will stay very much in the background - its role will focus primarily on providing Azure cloud services for a...

Albany, N.Y. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Friday signed a bill into law to help grow the State's industrial hemp industry. Senator Tom O'Mara says the bill will allow for the transportation, processing, sale, and distribution of hemp grown as part of the state's research pilot...

Should Santa Rosa aspire to be the "New Age Amsterdam," a Wine Country cousin to the Dutch city known for its permissive attitude about marijuana? OK, that vision comes from a Penngrove pot farmer quoted in Staff Writer Kevin McCallum's report on the city's efforts to create a regulatory...

Should Santa Rosa aspire to be the “New Age Amsterdam,” a Wine Country cousin to the Dutch city known for its permissive attitude about marijuana? OK, that vision comes from a Penngrove pot farmer quoted in Staff Writer Kevin McCallum’s report on the city’s efforts to create a regulatory...

David Dinenberg's a pretty adventurous guy. A few years back, he dropped out of the established real estate development game and moved cross-country to tap into an industry in its infancy. Now, the founder of Los Angeles-based Kind Financial is embarking on a new adventure in the legal...

Montego Bay, St James - At least two Government ministers are expected to be among speakers, including international and local cannabis experts, at the Cannabis Business Conference and Symposium to be hosted by CANEX, Jamaica at the Montego Bay Convention Centre on Friday, September 2...

Would rescheduling put medical cannabis in the pocket of Big Pharma? The United States Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday, August 11, that after months of consideration, the agency had decided not to ease restrictions on marijuana. The decision not to reduce marijuana from...

Even though the federal government has decided to retain marijuana as a Schedule I drug, California's marijuana industry is gathering steam. Gov. Jerry Brown approved regulations for medical cannabis last year, and voters will weigh on legalizing recreational pot this fall. As the industry...

When Secretary of State Michele Reagan put her stamp of approval on petitions bearing 177,000 signatures in Phoenix on Thursday, Arizona became the fifth state to schedule a ballot measure for November on legalizing recreational marijuana - joining California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada...

Legal marijuana has become such a big business locally that the Thurston County Chamber of Commerce dedicated its monthly lunch forum to the topic, filling ballroom space at a west Olympia hotel and inviting two of the biggest players here to talk about their businesses. Wednesday's gathering...

I spent a short time working in the marijuana industry in Washington state. At a small medical marijuana access point in the suburbs of Seattle, I learned how the industry thrived in a gray market, and saw first-hand how full-scale legalization was debated back and forth among the people...

Portland, Oregon - A Portland company is changing the way the marijuana industry understands cannabis, by mapping the plant's evolution in 3D. Researchers say what they've uncovered is surprising even growers across the country. The Phylos Galaxy is a 3D visualization of the cannabis world...

Rachael Speegle, director of operations at the Verdes Foundation, New Mexico's highest-grossing medical cannabis producer in the first quarter of 2016, says when she was working as a registered nurse she never felt conspicuous or disadvantaged as a woman. When she transitioned into the world...

Rachael Speegle, director of operations at the Verdes Foundation, New Mexico's highest-grossing medical cannabis producer in the first quarter of 2016, says when she was working as a registered nurse she never felt conspicuous or disadvantaged as a woman. When she transitioned into the world...

The chair of the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Board is gathering signatures to have Kenai Peninsula Borough vote on outlawing commercial cannabis operations in areas of the borough outside cities. That isn't sitting well with members of cannabis industry on the peninsula. Soldotna...

Where there's money, novelty and potential fame, people want in. For some, though, actually getting into Colorado's burgeoning cannabis industry is more difficult than for others. Take the experience of Taneesha Melvin, a 28-year-old Colorado Springs native. This spring, she says, she left...

Gov. Bill Walker has removed Bruce Schulte from the Marijuana Control Board. Walker’s letter gives little explanation for Schulte’s removal. “While I have appreciated your willingness to serve on the Marijuana Control Board, I have determined that your continued representation on this board is...

Legislation recently signed into law by Governor Tom Wolf legalizing the growing of industrial hemp in Pennsylvania represents a significant step forward for the agricultural industry in Pennsylvania, State Senator Judy Schwank (D-Berks) said on July 22. "Pennsylvania will now be on the same...

The U.S. job market has had its share of ups and downs lately, but in the budding U.S. marijuana industry, these are apparently high times on the employment front. A growing number of Americans are finding work in a multi billion-dollar industry that has been legally sanctioned - and only in...