by Emma Louise | Dec 9, 2015 | Business, Challenges | 0 Comments
Brick & mortar is not dying. E-commerce giants like Amazon are certainly thriving, but consumers still want to have in-store experiences. Online shopping is great for the convenience, but in many cases customers still want to experience the product themselves or... read more
by Emma Louise | Dec 8, 2015 | Industry Trends, Medical | 0 Comments
There is no evidence that marijuana makes you smarter. On the bright side, there is evidence that it does not make your IQ decline. Even heavy cannabis users do not have to worry about consumption decreasing IQ points according to one study from the University College... read more
by Burt Anderson | Dec 7, 2015 | Business, Colorado, Industry Trends | 0 Comments
“The way we characterize the growth of the cannabis business,” said Morgan Paxhia, co-founder and chief investment officer at Poseidan Asset Management, a cannabis industry investor group, “is to measure it in dog years.” Recreational cannabis... read more
by Emma Louise | Dec 6, 2015 | Medical | 0 Comments
Most people have heard of a chemical called THC, which is the ingredient in marijuana that gets consumers high. But recently, attention has shifted to another compound in marijuana called CBD. Unlike THC, CBD does not cause a high and is non-psychoactive, yet provides... read more
by Emma Louise | Dec 4, 2015 | Challenges, Industry Trends | 0 Comments
Cannabis prohibition began in 1937 and has led to almost 100 years of missed research and funding. Now in 2015, as american culture begins to accept marijuana into the mainstream and legitimize it, some of the brightest minds have come together to ask important... read more
by Morty Fine | Nov 30, 2015 | Challenges, Colorado | 0 Comments
After a trip to Colorado, the reporters who write for USA Today came to these conclusions: 1. Staggering stoners on city streets. Almost certainly they’re around, somewhere, but on four days earlier this month in Denver, they stayed inside. 2. People smoking marijuana... read more
by Morty Fine | Nov 25, 2015 | Industry Trends | 0 Comments
Interesting take on Big Data in the cannabis... read more
by Morty Fine | Nov 21, 2015 | Challenges, Industry Trends | 0 Comments
The cannabis industry has been growing at exponential rates. By the end of 2015, it is expected that the industry, nationally, will account for more than $3 billion. In Colorado alone, combined medicinal and recreational cannabis sales will total approximately $1... read more
by Paul Stevens | Oct 23, 2015 | Business, Challenges | 0 Comments
Legal Marijuana Is The Fastest-Growing Industry In The U.S Researchers from The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm based in Oakland, California, found that the U.S. market for legal cannabis grew 74 percent in 2014 to $2.7 billion, up from... read more
by Paul Stevens | Oct 11, 2015 | Oregon | 0 Comments
Oregon’s Growing Marijuana Industry “Oregon is going to lead the nation in cannabis.” Oregon Marijuana Stats Retailers sold more than $11 million of marijuana during Oregon’s first week of legal recreational sales, outpacing the early business... read more
by Paul Stevens | Sep 23, 2015 | Colorado, Industry Trends | 0 Comments
Big Data in the Marijuana Industry Now that dispensaries are legal and customers feel free to enjoy the substance, business is good – making it difficult to keep track of so many customers. Big Data is helping dispensaries track their customer’s habits and... read more
by Morty Fine | Aug 25, 2015 | Medical | 0 Comments
A new paper published in Psychiatry Research sheds some light on this phenomenon, or why smoking weed seems to unleash a stream of loose associations. The study looked at a phenomenon called semantic priming, in which the activation of one word allows us to react more... read more
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