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Oakland - Roughly 3,000 people flocked to the Marriott Oakland City Center this week for a business conference that, in many ways, was just like any other. Businesses set up booths in a vast expo room, and business executives hosted panels about marketing, funding, business policy and...

From Hollywood to high profile execs, everyone seems enticed by the budding weed industry High profile executives, from CEO's to managing directors have transitioned from their lucrative careers to trying their hand at acieving success in the booming cannabis industry. One such executive...

Fears that giant corporations will take over America's burgeoning marijuana industry are massively overblown, according to a report by the Brookings Institution. As more states legalize marijuana and businesses and entrepreneurs look to capitalize on the drug's legal status, marijuana...

Cliff Thomason left the real estate business last year to become something of a pioneer: a hemp farmer. The Grants Pass, Oregon, man was the first in the state to legally grow hemp, after Oregon began licensing growers in 2014, joining 17 other states nationwide that have differentiated hemp...

Wall Street's big money is not ready to dive into the booming cannabis industry. Companies in the legal-pot industry will generate nearly $7 billion in sales this year - a 25% growth rate - according to ArcView Market Research, a group that tracks the market. But the investors with the...

The end of marijuana prohibition is coming. But how the federal policies will change could have a dramatic effect on the nation's burgeoning legal marijuana businesses, which could fall victim to the same scourge that has hampered so many other nascent industries: regulations. At the end of...

The end of marijuana prohibition is coming. But how the federal policies will change could have a dramatic effect on the nation's burgeoning legal marijuana businesses, which could fall victim to the same scourge that has hampered so many other nascent industries: regulations. At the end of...

The burgeoning sisterhood of Maryland's marijuana entrepreneurs gathered in the back room of a Columbia chain restaurant recently, swapping business ideas over chicken wings and cheese cubes. Maryland's long-promised medical marijuana industry doesn't exist yet, and that's precisely why more...

The burgeoning sisterhood of Maryland's marijuana entrepreneurs gathered in the back room of a Columbia chain restaurant recently, swapping business ideas over chicken wings and cheese cubes. Maryland's long-promised medical marijuana industry doesn't exist yet, and that's precisely why more...

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is supporting the leading cannabis legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, and will keynote a national cannabis business conference planned for Oakland next week. Newsom addresses the nation's canna-business people Tuesday morning at the National Cannabis...

It's a big week for the legal cannabis industry. Hundreds of marijuana business, manufacturing, media, technology, and product companies descended upon the Javits Center in New York City this week for Cannabis World Congress. At the same time, Microsoft is entering the space, partnering with...

You'd think Microsoft would have its hands full dealing with its acquisition of LinkedIn, just announced on Monday, and all the adjustments and questions that will go with it. You'd also think buying an iconic social media company might be enough to prove that the new Satya Nadella version of...

Some have messy buns and sleeve tattoos. Some have salon cuts and $2,000 suits. Some are joining blue-collar unions, getting health benefits as they grow and sell a plant they've long loved. Some say they never touch it, but they're standing guard outside shops and fiercely lobbying legislators...

Cash is one of the U.S. marijuana industry's most nagging problems. Although a growing industry - to date, marijuana is now legal for medicinal use in 25 states and Washington, D.C., and legal for recreational use in four plus D.C. - traditional banking relationships with these Schedule 1...

Tomorrow evening, June 14 at 6:30 p.m., at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Michael Sutton will lead a discussion on whether Californians should vote "yes" on an initiative this November that would legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of...

It's like forecasting early gold reserves in the heady days of California's Gold Rush era. Revenue estimates that will come from legalizing marijuana are growing almost like weed itself. In analyzing the ballot initiative to legalize recreational use of marijuana, California's legislative...

Joshua Weitz’s marijuana delivery company was supposed to be the biggest achievement of his life. The San Francisco native began dealing weed when he was 14 years old, and by 2013 he was eager to apply his skills in a legitimate medical cannabis business with a California license. “You get this...

Marijuana prohibition in the US is quickly losing ground, with 13 states having passed decriminalization laws since 1973 and at least 20 states poised to vote on similar measures in 2016. As cannabis inches towards broader legalization, it has created the country's fastest-growing industry——and...

Entrepreneurs are jostling for position in the nascent but lucrative medical cannabis industry, even as political and legal traction is proving difficult. Take Chris Nasr, founder of LeafCann, who represents the contemporary face of the medical cannabis industry. A 24-year-old electrician from...

The U.S. Cannabis Pharmaceutical Research and Development hosted two seminars for industry newcomers last weekend. Harrisburg's decision in early April to legalize medical marijuana in the state of Pennsylvania has set several wheels in motion, including those at the Department of Health, which...