Cannabis Company G FarmaLabs Expects Sales to Double to $8mm

Nicole Gonzalez spent her teenage summers working in the Dominican Republic and Central America where her grandfather owned tobacco fields. Cigar-making was a male-dominated industry but her strong-willed mother...
- October 24th, 2015 at 11:30 am

Huge Hemp Processing Plant Planned for Pueblo

A hemp processing company plans to open a plant in Pueblo that will employ 163 workers by 2017, the company and the Pueblo Economic Development Corp. announced Friday. The...
- October 24th, 2015 at 9:53 am

Cannabis Consumers Connect with High There!

Johnny Diaz tells tells of the genesis of the High There! and how Todd Mitchem, formerly of O.PenVAPE, connected with the founders. You can use your smartphone to hook up,...
- October 23rd, 2015 at 4:35 pm

Marijuana Reality Show Hands Out $13mm

The Marijuana Show, produced by Karen Paull and Wendy Robbins, is back for a second season.  The reality show just finished filming in Denver earlier this month, and its...
- October 23rd, 2015 at 12:07 pm

Canadian Cannabis Producer Canopy Growth Raises $12.5mm

Canopy Growth Corporation Announces $12.5 Million Bought Deal SMITHS FALLS, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Oct. 23, 2015) Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX VENTURE:CGC) (“Canopy” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that...
- October 23rd, 2015 at 9:34 am

Cannabis Marketing Goes Upscale

One of Canada’s largest newspapers, The Globe and Mail, took a look at the rapidly evolving approaches to marketing cannabis and its ancillary products in an increasingly legal environment.  While...
- October 22nd, 2015 at 2:35 pm

A Strikeout at Ballpark Cannabis Dispensary

In yet another example of the tough advertising restrictions that entrepreneurs face in the cannabis industry, Ballpark Holistic Dispensary, based in Denver, had a deal with the Metropolitan State...
- October 22nd, 2015 at 1:03 pm

Marketing Marijuana to Moms

The Economist made the case for marketers of marijuana to court the demographic of mothers, who, not surprisingly, don’t respond well to the traditional appeals.  The article discusses some...
- October 22nd, 2015 at 1:45 am

Fact-Checking Oregon's $11mm in Cannabis Sales

It was universally accepted and widely reported that Oregon dispensaries generated $11mm sales in the first week of legal recreational sales, but it turns out that this was an...
- October 21st, 2015 at 11:25 pm

9 Potential Billion-Dollar Cannabis Companies

Chicago Inno, a division of Streetwise Media, published a piece that speculates on which cannabis company might be the first to be worth $1 billion. The industry is so...
- October 21st, 2015 at 7:07 pm