Like the industry itself, employment and investment in cannabis businesses are rising. Yet, it remains true that special risks apply to cannabis enterprises beyond what is seen with “conventional”...
Virtually every company within the legal Cannabis Industry has a myriad of regulations that govern everything from packaging, to testing, to whether or not samples can be opened on...
QuantaCann2, Steep Hill’s “Plug and Play” Laboratory Cannabis Business Executive provided an update on the recent progress of cannabis testing lab Steep Hill following a discussion with CEO David Lampach. Lampach...
Tuatara Capital, a New York private equity firm, is backing country singer and songwriter Willie Nelson’s endeavor to sell marijuana in Colorado and Washington. is leading an investor group financing the...
You can count on one hand the number of chief executives of large companies who publicly support the legalization of marijuana. The list goes as follows: John Mackey, co-CEO...
Allison Kopf, CEO and co-founder of Agrilyst, at TechCrunch Disrupt SF Agrilyst, which is officially launching in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield today, helps greenhouse operators run their operations...
Snoop Dogg, world-renowned entertainment icon and unofficial representative of all things weed, has been investing in tech products and platforms for the past year or so, with a particular...
Summary: Prices for recreational marijuana have mostly stabilized since our last quarterly survey of retail cannabis dispensaries in Colorado. In June, we noted that retail prices had dropped from...
The Suquamish Tribe and the State of Washington recently signed and entered into the first ever marijuana compact to allow a Native American Tribe to cultivate, process, and sell marijuana within a...
Ten entrepreneurs from across the country recently completed a 12-week mentoring program at Canopy Boulder, a mentorship and seed-stage investment program focused on the cannabis industry. It’s risky, unproven...
In this episode Matthew Kind welcomes Bryce Berryessa to CannaInsider. Bryce is an extraction wizard and he opens up the kimono and shares the most intimate and granular details...
Eugene Lopin, CEO of the Cannabis Hemp Exchange chats with potential investors at the Cannabis Investor Summit at the Bentley Reserve in downtown San Francisco on September 17, 2015...
Justin Hartfield isn’t like you and me. Instead of turning Hartfield into a couch potato, marijuana has turned him into a serial entrepreneur. Hartfield says more than 95% of...
Chalice Farms built its new marijuana dispensary in the midst of Oregon wine country, largely in anticipation of recreational marijuana sales. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Oregon’s recreational marijuana taxes...
Colorado’s medical marijuana industry remains buoyant, continuing to grow despite the legal or “recreational” industry dramatically exceeding it in size. Source: The Cannabist At 3PM on Tuesday, September 22nd, the...
Hawaii’s new medical cannabis program has people across the country seeing green in the Rainbow State. What’s got so many stoked even though Hawaii has had legal cannabis since 2000?...
While enormous fanfare currently surrounds hot and developing marijuana markets already in play, like Oregon, Nevada, New York and California, East-coaster Maryland has begun to come into its own a bit more...
In this episode of Investing in Cannabis, Brandon David interviews David Lampach, the co-founder and CEO of Steep Hill, at the company’s headquarters in California. Steep Hill is one...
Startups in the legal marijuana business have unique concerns—initially, finding a welcoming bank, credit card provider and landlord. Even those who don’t grow, sell or process the plant face...
Recreational cannabis shops in Southwest Washington are seeing an increasing demand for products with medical properties, such as high CBD edibles and cannabis-infused topicals for pain. Store managers and...
Last week, Tweed, Inc., which is set to become Canopy Growth Corp following its acquisition of Bedrocan Cannabis, issued its annual report for the year ending March 31, 2015....
Willie Nelson and Tuatara Capital, L.P. are pleased to announce their partnership to establish Willie’s Reserve, a premium cannabis lifestyle brand. Tuatara Capital will lead an investor group that is financing...
Two years ago, brothers Adam and Ramsey Hamide, both in their thirties, were self-employed online ticket brokers. Today they run Main Street Marijuana, the largest grossing marijuana retail store...
Tweed Marijuana Inc. is officially renaming itself Canopy Growth Corp. as it prepares for its next leg of growth after a landmark acquisition. Shareholders approved the name change at...
Steep Hill Labs, a California-based company, has opened a lab in Albuquerque that will provide quality assurance testing for marijuana plant producers and patients participating in the state’s medical...
