Month: January 2018 (Page 4)

Examining data such as the Canadian share of the American market and seizure data at the border, this wide-ranging study illuminates the Canadian cannabis sector from 1961 to 2017. The post 7 Takeaways From Statistics Canada’s ‘Cannabis Stats Hub’ appeared first on Leafly. Read More: 7 Takeaways FromContinue Reading

The media and events company is preparing for a public investment round. Alan Brochstein looks at the financials. The post Investing in High Times: Puff or Pass? appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Investing in High Times: Puff or Pass?Continue Reading

Health Canada has introduced new security measures that could save early stage cultivation applicants hundreds of thousands of dollars and improve operational efficiencies for current producers, according to analysts. Effective immediately, marijuana producers will no longer be required to store their inventory in bank-like vaults, which can cost up toContinue Reading

A 130-acre business park aiming to be the largest medical marijuana industrial center east of the Mississippi River is well on its way to becoming operational in the second quarter of 2018, another sign that the state’s MMJ industry is thriving. The venture, known as Harvest Park, will be locatedContinue Reading

Two major Canadian marijuana producers are merging to create a $6 billion mega-corporation. Fifteen companies have 10 percent of California’s licenses. The era of Big Marijuana began a while ago. The title of “world’s largest and most valuable marijuana company” has changed hands yet again. Last week, Aurora Cannabis paidContinue Reading

The story of a young man from Colombia whose two minor marijuana possession charges from the early 2000s have sent him into a decades-long struggle towards obtaining political asylum in the United States. Adres (not his real name) is Colombian. He has asked for anonymity, citing the pending legal statusContinue Reading

A western Colorado town is changing its land development rules to allow CBD extraction from hemp, a change prompted by a hemp grower who appealed zoning rules that allowed him to grow hemp but not process it. David Cox, who is licensed to grow 100 acres of hemp, successfully arguedContinue Reading