Marijuana Business Daily reports this October that the percentage of women executives in the cannabis industry is far higher than in all U.S. businesses as a whole. About 36...
Seed CX is currently raising capital to fund the development of its cannabis derivatives trading platform. It applied to the CFTC this summer and intends to trade hemp...
The Miami Herald profiled Florida cannabis technology company BioTrackTHC, which has offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Denver and Olympia, Washington. The company now has 56 employees. BioTrackTHC has won contracts...
Canada has a legal medical cannabis program that launched in early 2014, but the federal elections on 10/19 could lead to the country becoming among the first major nations to...
A shot of vodka is a shot of vodka, but the THC level in a marijuana joint, vape or edible can vary tremendously from one strain or brand to...
A few years out of graduate school in botany, Paul Gray found himself tinkering with the lights for growing Green Crack. Yeah, that Green Crack: the strain of weed so...
Tweed President Mark Zekulin was in Guelph Thursday afternoon to officially open what the company billed as an improved MedCannAccess service centre. The ceremony was held at the agency’s...
Front Runner, the business intelligence software from Washington-based Tetratrak, has all sorts of great data that is incorporated into this report. Here is an excerpt from the report, which discusses...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos suggests that a brand is for a company like a reputation for a person, “You earn a reputation by trying to do hard things well.” Committing to doing...
Each week, New Leaf Data Services publishes a weekly assessment of cannabis prices by evaluating the legal prices for a standardized potency across a variety of markets. From an...
The Denver Post’s cannabis-focused media property, The Cannabist, will present its inaugural Cannabist Business Awards in December, with a goal to “recognize businesses that are excelling Colorado’s marijuana industry and...
Tim Strombel of Cashinbis interviewed Farley Cahen, Chief Revenue Officer of mg Magazine, at the recent Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo in Los Angeles. The magazine, which just...
In this 14th episode of Investing in Cannabis (published on 10/15/15), Brandon David interviews Matt Cote, cannabis branding expert and founder of TechnoVerde. Matt has built visionary brand strategy...
Stephen Keen, the CEO of Boulder-based Surna, Inc. (OTC: SRNA), spoke at the National Cannabis Summit in Denver on October 12th. Keen, who merged Hydro Innovations, which he founded...
Now that legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the U.S.—and the environmental effects are multiplying—some growers are rethinking the sustainability of their methods. Green Life Productions, an indoor...
Taking a marijuana company public is often viewed as a great exit strategy, usually by entrepreneurs who are dreaming of a big payout. It can also be a quick...
Introducing “Better.” A New Model for Marijuana Access in Canada SMITHS FALLS, ON, Oct.15, 2015 /CNW/ – Tweed Inc. (Tweed), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX.V:...
Phyto Partners is investing at the intersection of big data and Big Bud. The Boca Raton, Fla., firm has entered into a partnership with Frontier Financial Group Inc., a...
At the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, 45,000 runners received a surprise in their official participation kits next to their water and protein bars: an informational pamphlet...
One of the highlights of the National Cannabis Summit in Denver was the 90-minute panel entitled “Investing in the Canadian Cannabis Sector”. The participants included the CEO of merchant...
Noah Stokes is the founder and CEO of CannaGuard Security, a cannabis industry security firm that serves cannabis businesses nationwide. From storefronts to grow ops, CannaGuard helps companies not...
CBD is hot, and San Francisco-based Samantha Strom is working hard to capitalize on its popularity, launching Nancy, the “Birchbox of Cannabis,” as reported by Refinery29. The service, which...
Jeremy Bamford, CEO of Potguide.com, at the National Cannabis Summit on 10/13/15 NIWOT — Denver-based PotGuide.com announced on Tuesday that it has acquired KindReviews.com — which offers cannabis photography...
New Vansterdam in Vancouver is among the Washington dispensaries competing with the newly legal recreational cannabis market in Oregon Oregon recreational sales pulled in $11mm in the first week,...
One of the better attended panels at the National Cannabis Summit in Denver was yesterday’s “Opportunities for Accredited Investors to Invest in Private Cannabis Startups.” Brendan Kennedy, the CEO...
