Cannabis Products & Services News

Five Marijuana Banking Myths

The American Banker published a piece by Alison Jimenez and Steven Kemmerling. Jimenez is president and founder of Dynamic Securities Analytics Inc., an anti-money-laundering consulting firm, and Kemmerling is CEO and...
- December 24th, 2015 at 11:22 am

Raising the Cannabis Industry Image

Stock Pot Images does a great job of helping the industry evolve.  A story about its founder, Ophelia Chong, who is also the co-founder of Asians Americans for Cannabis Education...
- December 22nd, 2015 at 4:08 pm

Pritzker and McNamee Invest in Cannabis Software Company

On January 26th, MJ Freeway, the Colorado-based cannabis industry software company, announced that Tao Capital Partners had invested an undisclosed amount into the company. Matt Bigliardi, Director of Investments for...
- December 21st, 2015 at 10:48 am

Cannabis Software Company MJ Freeway Raises $8mm

A Denver software developer that writes code for cannabis companies is starting to bloom. Software developer MJ Freeway received $8 million from 13 investors, according to SEC documents filed...
- December 18th, 2015 at 12:35 pm

CanopyBoulder Informs with Cannabis Investing 101 Seminar

Cannabis business accelerator CanopyBoulder hosted a webinar “Cannabis Investing 101” today, with about 40 attendees dialed in to learn about the industry.  Partner and Managing Director Micah Tapman and Co-founder...
- December 17th, 2015 at 8:48 pm

So You Want to Buy a Cannabis Business?

Following up on a recent article about selling licenses in Nevada, Canna Law Group attorney Robert McVay discusses a pickup in activity in Washington.  His observations about the market...
- December 16th, 2015 at 2:59 pm

The Taxation of Legal Cannabis Part 2 – Cost of Goods Sold

Last week I introduced the conflict between federal income tax law and state-sanctioned cannabis enterprises here and here. In brief, the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) section 280E proscribes state-sanctioned...
- December 16th, 2015 at 2:04 pm

Irish Innovation in Key Cannabis Accessory

Irish newspaper Talk of the Town describes the Indiegogo campaign of a company that is in the final production phases of a portable, battery-operated grinder: The Chewy will be...
- December 14th, 2015 at 9:14 am

The Taxation of Legal Cannabis Part 1

Mike Parnes, Attorney at Barth Daly LLP With the recent legalization of recreational cannabis sales in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, the writing is on the wall for the...
- December 11th, 2015 at 3:03 pm