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Investing in cannabis in 2018

Investing in cannabis in 2018

January 8, 2018

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor With legal sales starting in California and states setting records for sales outside California, it’s a pretty good time to be investing in the cannabis...

More Americans support cannabis legalization than ever before

More Americans support cannabis legalization than ever before

January 5, 2018

Six out of ten Americans support cannabis legalization, the highest approval rate ever recorded. The new survey, conducted by Pew Research Center in October, found the new legalization approval rate...

Mike Tyson is now a player in the cannabis industry

Mike Tyson is now a player in the cannabis industry

January 5, 2018

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, along with some of his business partners, broke ground on a 40-acre ranch in California. Here they are expecting to pave the way for a new destination for...

Where California cannabis legalization goes from here

Where California cannabis legalization goes from here

January 5, 2018

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor Social use cannabis sales began in California on the 1st of January, but there are still quite a few regulatory issues to address. California is currently...

Breaking: Attorney General Jeff Session rescinds cannabis protections

Breaking: Attorney General Jeff Session rescinds cannabis protections

January 4, 2018

Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo, which provided protections for states with legalized cannabis, on Thursday. The move comes only three days after the most populous state in the...

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These five states are the most likely to pass cannabis legislation in 2018

Annureet Kaur January 3, 2018

With the elections coming up, cannabis legalization has become a hot topic nationwide, once again. After California, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts legalized social cannabis use in 2016, no other states...

Canadian company plans to launch industrial hemp production in Maine

Canadian company plans to launch industrial hemp production in Maine

January 2, 2018

Future Farm Technologies of Vancouver, British Columbia recently purchased 120 acres of land in northern Maine for industrial hemp production, marking one of the largest land investments in the country...

California cannabis users show up for the states first day of social cannabis legalization

California cannabis users show up for the state’s first day of social cannabis legalization

January 2, 2018

While cannabis for medical use has been legal in California for two decades, residents in San Diego, Oakland and Sacramento lined up at the dispensary on Monday to celebrate the state's social legalization...

Newly released opioid overdose figures show fatalities on the rise

Newly released opioid overdose figures show fatalities on the rise

December 23, 2017

The number of Americans who died from opioid overdoses continued its dramatic increase in 2016, according to a new report released by the National Center for Health Statistics this month. More than...

Will California help solve the cannabis industry’s banking problem?

Will California help solve the cannabis industry’s banking problem?

December 22, 2017

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor Everyone in the cannabis world knows the industry has a banking problem. Since cannabis remains illegal at the federal level, federally-regulated banks are...

Las Vegas may have cannabis lounges within a few months

Las Vegas may have cannabis lounges within a few months

December 20, 2017

Thor Benson / Cannabis News Box Contributor We’ve talked about Nevada’s need for cannabis lounges before, but it looks like Las Vegas could be on its way to making them happen. According to the...

Texas takes small steps toward medical cannabis

Texas takes small steps toward medical cannabis

Sara Tiradossi December 18, 2017

Texas is the last major state to allow some form of medical cannabis. The state's limited program only allows for an oil extract that is very low in the psychoactive component THC. The license fees...

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