Cannabis Products & Services News
MJ Freeway Awarded Contract for Nevada Seed-to-Sale Cannabis Tracking MJ Freeway, the cannabis industry’s leading provider of seed-to-sale traceability solutions, has been awarded a contract from the State of...
Omnicom Group agency sparks & honey is teaming up with High Times to create a special report, “Rebranding Marijuana”, targeting the cannabis industry to “help brands fully understand the behavior,...
CannaInsider interviewed the founders of Colorado-based New West Genetics, Wendy Mosher, CEO and John McKay, Director of Genetics, who are married. The company aims to improve and develop industrial hemp as...
In episode 29 of Investing in Cannabis, Brandon David interviews Matt Chapdelaine, CEO of Chicago-based HerbFront, which offers a predictive mapping and zoning platform focused on the cannabis industry....
Chris Van Hook, Founder and Director of Clean Green Certified, discussed his company in an extended interview with Cannabis Reports. Van Hook, a medical cannabis compliance attorney in California,...
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) recently implemented a set of temporary rules effective through June 28thof this year with the goal to establish a set of regulations for cannabis...
Bruce Barcott interviewed Shaleen Title of THC Staffing, an activist who was heavily involved in the Colorado legalization and then moved to Massachusetts to open Vicente, Sederberg’s office. Title...
Newsweek profiled Mowgli Holmes, Chief Scientific Officer of Phylos Bioscience, an Oregon-based research and diagnostic company focused on cannabis genomics that he co-founded with CEO Nishan Karassik. Holmes received his PhD...
Felix Thea, the host of the Shopify Masters podcast, interviewed Ben Kovacs, a Twitter sales executive who was an early investor in Myster, founded by Davis Kiyonaga. Myster, a...
Franwell’s Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance (METRC) was awarded a five-year contract in Alaska, which joins Colorado and Oregon as customers using the seed-to-sale tracking software. The value of the...
Last week, Leafly, which bills itself as the “world’s largest cannabis information resource,” suddenly locked out developers in the cannabis industry from its application program interface (API). The API gave access...
Shango Los interviewed Mark Hubbard, Co-Founder and CEO of Washington-based cannabis testing laboratory Integrity Labs. Both consumers and those who want to understand the industry better will benefit from...
Energy consumption is one of the big challenges for the cannabis industry, with indoor cultivation requiring large amounts of power to provide adequate lighting. Traditional lighting creates significant heat,...
One of the twelve licensed cannabis testing labs in Washington has failed, with Testing Technologies CEO Larry Ward forced to close after firing Dustin Newman, the science director, a...
Wholesale cannabis trading platforms are beginning to emerge as the industry moves towards more transparency that accompanies legalization. One of the pioneers is Amercanex, which has the backing of...
David Drake, the CEO of Cannabis Reports (formerly Smoke Reports), presented at the Seed Series in San Francisco on March 2nd. The company, which provides data analytics and has now created special...
One of the most exciting developments of the legal cannabis industry has been that entrepreneurs are entering the space, especially on the ancillary side, taking advantage of the reduced stigma and...
Med-X reported an update on its crowdfunding effort today in a sponsored post published by MJIC Media in front of the MJIC California Cannabis Conference to be held from...
Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth, which owns Tweed, issued a press release this evening criticizing cannabis industry consultant Quantum 9: Who is Quantum 9? SMITHS FALLS, ON, March 2, 2016...
Cannabis companies have been increasingly under attack by Instagram and Facebook. Clay Dillow describes the recent Facebook fiasco for Dixie Brands, which lost 11K followers in an arbitrary instant....
Cannabis Benchmarks® Announces Ground Breaking Integration of Wholesale Cannabis Price Data into GlobalView’s Award-Winning Commodity Market Data Platform STAMFORD, Conn., March 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Cannabis Benchmarks®, a division of...
CannaInsider interviewed Cy Scott, the founder of Leafly who left last year with his co-founders to start Headset, which aims to help cannabis cultivators and retailers use data to make educated...
Julie Weed reported on Clone Shipper, an entrepreneurial success story in the cannabis industry. Larry Fenner, who is based in Arizona, came up with the idea for packaging and sending...
Indoor cannabis cultivation is known to be extremely energy-intensive. Last week, the Washington Post published an article that suggested that the cannabis industry has a “surprisingly huge energy footprint”, extrapolating...
Ackrell Capital, based in San Francisco, is an M&A advisory and financing firm that will soon be launching a venture fund targeting the cannabis industry. Shannon Soqui, its Head of...
