Sentences with phrase «by cannabis business»

MIG was founded in 2010 by cannabis business owners and supporters who wanted to help craft Colorado's earliest medical marijuana regulatory framework.

Not exact matches

Concern over the prosecution of medical cannabis businesses subsided after the recent budget passed by Congress.

The program hosts an annual four - month, 100 - hour intensive that facilitates participants» transition from informal to formal cannabis operations by providing training and mentorship in partnership with the mainstream Oakland cannabis legal and business community.

By virtually every measure, prohibition of cannabis with high THC commonly known as marijuana and the variant with no recreational drug potential commonly known as hemp has cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in missed business opportunities and wasted resources spent unsuccessfully fighting the so - called war on drugs.

A wearable technology company founded by Perth entrepreneur Justin Miller and an Israeli medical cannabis company are the latest businesses planning to join the rush of backdoor listings on the ASX, though the news is not all positive with Voyager Global Group becoming the seventh company forced to cancel an announced deal in the past 18 months.

By that measure, the legal cannabis business is rapidly accelerating into stage three, as an ecosystem of financial and other services quickly grows up.

But growing a cannabis business comes with hurdles not faced by the average venture.

Learn a lot more about financing in the book Start Your Own Cannabis Business: A Step - By - Step Guide To The Marijuana Industry.

The process of branding cannabis businesses is further slowed by marijuana's classification under the federal Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule 1 drug (along with heroin, LSD and other hallucenogens).

With those stats from the city of Oakland's Department of Race and Equity in hand, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to overhaul the nation's first equity program to set aside 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis business permits during the first phase of permitting for people affected by the War on Drugs.

The transaction was heralded by some as a game - changer for Canada's cannabis industry, with an established, out - of - market player giving a vote of confidence in the country's marijuana business.

Approached more and more by other dispensaries hoping to get a leg up in quality, the folks behind Pinnacle began offering their services not only as consultants for the physical breeding of plants, but for the entire infrastructure required to begin a new cannabis business.

Another aspect of this mom - and - pop aesthetic is that the kind of businesses we're approached by are really trying to avoid the commodification of cannabis.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

The legal cannabis business is $ 10 billion per year and growing 30 percent each year, but California Dreamin» wants to nab part of the $ 210 billion alcohol market by getting people to switch to cannabis.

The expansion of the market will be followed by a boom of cannabis related businesses that will require distribution infrastructure to achieve their success.

Paragon, diode by former Miss Iowa Jessica Versteeg, is trying to standardize associate degreed regulate the cannabis business through the ability of a changeless ledger on blockchain technology to assist the polemical plant to contend with the massive pharmaceutical company.

The CBD Summit at Natural Products Expo West (sponsored by CV Sciences, CW Hemp and Neptune Wellness Solutions), from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on March 7, will cover all the aspects of the hemp / cannabis / CBD trade to help companies understand the complexities of the business and go on to prosper in this booming category of botanical medicine.

Cannabis businesses could be part of a cashless system similar to Apple Pay, and their money would be insured by a state - licensed institution.

Fibonacci's goal is to invest the proceeds of the ICO into a production facility and business center in the US, with plans to begin supplying its growers to the USD 8 billion North American cannabis market by August 2018.

In addition, the sex industry falls under a number of trades, such as the sale of legal cannabis, controlled by morality clauses, which means that porn stars and porn - related businesses can easily have their accounts shut down by banks and other financial institutions.

«It's ironic that the state can launder its cannabis money by depositing its cannabis tax revenue in banks, but businesses generating that revenue can not,» he says.

Then last week U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he was cracking down on the cannabis industry by rescinding the Obama Administration Cole memorandum, which had protected cannabis - related businesses in states that had legalized pot in some form.