Month: February 2019 (Page 21)

Last week in the United States Senate, the country’s most august lawmaking body, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced twelve bills. Bills in the Senate are given a number, and numbers are issued sequentially as the bills are introduced, so it was clearly one-hundred percent coincidental happenstance that Wyden’s bill that wouldContinue Reading

Major issues facing the cannabis industry, such as limited access to banking services, have stalled in Congress without even getting a hearing, much less a floor vote. That will change Wednesday, when a subcommittee of the now-Democratic-controlled House Financial Services Committee hears testimony on the difficulty legal cannabis businesses have opening andContinue Reading

In an interview with the famed morning radio show “The Breakfast Club” this week, U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris was confronted with her history on the subject of marijuana reform. Lenard “Charlamagne Tha God” McKelvey had already dove deep with Harris on various criminal justice related issues throughout theContinue Reading

Marijuana Business Daily has launched its seventh annual survey of cannabis industry executives and investors, an undertaking that’s intended to help the Colorado-based company provide key market, financial and operational data for businesses and entrepreneurs. Owners, founders and executives with dispensaries/retail stores, commercial cultivation operations, infused product manufacturers, vertically integrated businesses,Continue Reading