According to the budget and finance office of Aurora (a Denver suburb), the city could see millions in revenue from legal marijuana sales. The actual revenue increase...
When Colorado voters last November gave the thumbs up to marijuana legalization, the celebrations came quickly, with overjoyed pot smokers triumphantly lighting up, even though the pot...
With a projected $1.3 billion – $1.5 billion in sales in 2013, the largest, legally operating sector within the green rush is the medical cannabis community. The...
Two Denver entrepreneurs launched the nation’s first marijuana tourism company in Colorado after pot legalization took effect. The company’s first package is built around cannabis enthusiasts’ well-known 4/20 holiday,...
GW Pharmaceuticals plc (GWP), the maker of Sativex and undeniably the original marijuana stock, files for U.S. IPO after recent interest in lesser-known but more hyped U.S. medical...
Colorado’s tax receipts over the last fiscal year totaled $186 million from the more than 500 state medical marijuana businesses. State officials expect that next year, with recreational...
Automated Retail Machines may just be the cannabis salesman of the future. Customers are already used to basic automated retail machines, having seen them selling snacks, lottery tickets and...
The Green Rush is on. Cannabis deregulation is opening up so many new possibilities that economists are comparing it to the Gold Rushes of the 1800’s. Suddenly...
For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the...
01:52am The London-based HSBC Group, Europe’s largest banking entity, has agreed to forfeit $1.256 billion and pay an additional $600 million-plus in fines for laundering money...
Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft executive, has decided to enter the marijuana gold rush about to occur in Washington state “by creating the category of premium marijuana,...
The Medical Marijuana Business Daily, an industry new service, projects that if marijuana were legalized nationwide it would result in a market potentially worth more than $46 billion.
04:18pm With US public support for marijuana legalization now at the 50% mark, and state legalization efforts now starting to come to fruition, people are naturally...
Time covers the Colorado cannabis business ecosystem and why it’s ready for legalized recreational marijuana after the state’s solid experience with medical marijuana.
According to a study by a respected Mexican Think Tank, the legalization of recreational marijuana, which we will hopefully see after next week, could reduce cartel profits by...
Since the mid-1990s, the price of outdoor-grown marijuana has plummeted from more than $5,000 a pound to less than $2,000, and even as low as $800. Economics...
HuffPost ponders the Los Angeles City Council’s decision to ignore the fact that the majority of their constituents support the use of medical marijuana and how they could just...
012 The passage and enactment of a statewide marijuana ballot measure this fall could generate as much as $60 million in savings and revenue, according to a...
Longtime marijuana advocate and weedist Bill Maher reviews Doug Fine‘s latest book Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution. Read Bill’s great thoughts at...
Oregon collected more than $7.5 million in fees from medical marijuana cards between October 2011 and June 2012 after they doubled the annual fee for Oregon Medical Marijuana Program...
