{"id":25003,"date":"2018-04-04T09:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/cannabis-now-takes-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T20:42:05","slug":"cannabis-now-takes-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/cannabis-now-takes-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Now Takes Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>To say that the cannabis industry is absolutely booming in legal states would be a vast understatement. From festivals to conventions to conferences, the ways in which marijuana is evolving socially, culturally and in the business sector is moving at light speed and if you look away for a minute, you could miss some major developments that could change the landscape of the cannabis industry from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, Marijuana Business Daily hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MJBizCon<\/a> \u2014 the world\u2019s largest cannabis industry conference on the globe \u2014 in Las Vegas where attendance doubles every event. <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/industry-wars-inside-mjbizcon-2017\/\">This November,<\/a> the Las Vegas Convention Center allowed a cannabis-only event to take place on site for the first time and welcomed more than 17,000 registered attendees. And though it may seem like it\u2019s all fun and games from the outside, this event was designed to give business owners in the industry a chance to meet like-minded professionals, figure out ways to boost their companies and learn how they can better serve the people who are responsible for their success: the consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have, since the beginning, held MJBizCon to be a business-to-business, professional trade show,\u201d CEO and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marijuana Business Daily<\/a> Cassandra Farrington shared. \u201cThis is not a party. This is a place to be doing business deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eugenio Garcia, the founder and publisher of Cannabis Now Magazine, got a chance to talk with some of the movers and shakers of the industry including people like Chris Hagedorn from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawthorne-gardening.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hawthorne Gardening<\/a>, Jillian Nelson from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreenorganix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evergreen Organix<\/a>, Danny Danko from <a href=\"https:\/\/hightimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Times<\/a>, Brett Roper from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinemandenver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medicine Man<\/a>, Sean Characky from <a href=\"https:\/\/pisoslv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pisos<\/a>, Jeff Gray from <a href=\"https:\/\/pisoslv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SC Labs<\/a> and Arjan Roskam, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenhouse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green House Coffeeshops<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/greenhouseseeds.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green House Seed Compan<\/a>y. These industry insiders were able to offer up some unique and valuable insight into what\u2019s going on behind the scenes, how the industry is advancing and expanding around the world and what\u2019s to come \u2014 more innovation, more growth, more investments and more acceptance worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing now is the \u2018green rush,\u2019 which has become the green tsunami because there\u2019s a lot of buzz out there about cannabis,\u201d Henry Wykowski, the lead attorney at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopharborside.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harborside Health Center<\/a>, explained. \u201cEverybody wants to get into cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, if the MJBizCon, the event bringing together industry professionals from all around the world is any indication of what lies ahead, it doesn\u2019t seems like things will be slowing down anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>TELL US,<\/b> would you like to attend a cannabis industry convention?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/cannabis-now-takes-las-vegas\/\">Cannabis Now Takes Las Vegas<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\">Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/cannabis-now-takes-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cannabis Now Takes Las Vegas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To say that the cannabis industry is absolutely booming in legal states would be a vast understatement. From festivals to conventions to conferences, the ways in which marijuana is evolving socially, culturally and in the business sector is moving at light speed and if you look away for a minute,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/cannabis-now-takes-las-vegas\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,3842,3843,3844,3845,1843,3219,168,69,228,3846,1369,2372,3847,3848,126],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25004,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions\/25004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}