by Emma Louise | Feb 4, 2016 | Business
23 states have already legalized medical marijuana and many states are planning to legalize recreational use in 2016, but Facebook is still not friendly with the topic. Three dispensaries in New Jersey recently had their Facebook pages deleted and many others across...
by Emma Louise | Feb 3, 2016 | Business, Challenges, Industry Trends
A recent report by ArcView Market Research found legal cannabis sales jumped 17% in 2015 and are predicting it to grow by an astounding 25% this year. That means the legal cannabis industry will reach $6.7 billion in total U.S. sales in 2016. Innovative startups are...
by Emma Louise | Jan 12, 2016 | Legal
Banking has been a major challenge for cannabis businesses since Colorado first legalized recreational marijuana in 2014. Marijuana is still a Schedule I narcotic causing state and federal laws to clash. Banks do not want to be associated with a federally illegal...
by Emma Louise | Jan 7, 2016 | Challenges
Marijuana conferences have grown from 1 to over 30 in just three years. The emerging industry already has too many events, making it hard to distinguish which ones are worth going to and which ones simply waste time. “You can literally attend, speak or exhibit at an...
by Burt Anderson | Dec 7, 2015 | Business, Colorado, Industry Trends
“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...
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