Cannabis Company News

GW Pharma Phase 3 Trials for Sativex Miss Endpoints

GW Pharmaceuticals and Otsuka Announce Results From Two Remaining Sativex(R) Phase 3 Cancer Pain Trials – Consistent with previously announced results from the initial Phase 3 trial, remaining trials...
- October 27th, 2015 at 8:53 am

Entrepreneurs are High on Hemp in Kentucky

Kentucky, hailed as a leader by industrial hemp advocates, has grown the hemp. Now the state is working on growing the industry. “In two years, we’ve come a long...
- October 25th, 2015 at 7:38 pm

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

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

Canada's Mail-Order Marijuana Only Could End

Following Monday’s win by Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party in Canada, which has pledged to legalize cannabis for adult-use in the country that already has a federally legal medical cannabis...
- October 21st, 2015 at 7:47 am

The Factory Sells Cannabis by the Can

  The Factory sells cannabis in little, opaque cans that resemble those used to package dipping tobacco. Co-owner Kendall Jorgensen, who was a Southern Oregon craft medical-marijuana grower, claims...
- October 20th, 2015 at 10:06 pm

Medical Marijuana Attorney Douglas Hiatt Sues Seattle

Columbia City Holistic Health filed suit at the end of September alleging that the city’s taxing and regulation of medical marijuana businesses — as well requiring them to obtain...
- October 20th, 2015 at 5:55 pm

Portland's Pure Green Plans to Expand its Cannabis Operations

Cannabis Business Executive profiled an Oregon-based dispensary, Pure Green, run by husband-and-wife team, Matt and Meghan Walstatter.  The story details their personal connection to cannabis as medicine, some of...
- October 20th, 2015 at 4:28 pm

Canadian Cannabis Producer Hydropothecary Sells to Public Company

In a first-of-its-kind type of transaction, a U.S. publicly-traded company has acquired a Canadian licensed producer of cannabis, Hydropothecary, on the morning after the change in the government leadership that suggests the...
- October 20th, 2015 at 10:17 am