This week, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics noted a rise in hospitalizations for kids that accidentally consume marijuana. The study stated that hospital visits for kids under the age of 10 linked to marijuana ingestion rose from seven in 2013 to 16 visits in 2015. Calls to poison control also rose during this time period from 25 to 47. The release of the...

The first legal medical marijuana dispensary in Florida, Truelieve, opened this week in Tallahassee, Florida. Truelieve conducted the first-ever transaction of its kind in Florida with Dallas Nagy. Florida’s first medical marijuana patient traveled approximately 200 miles from the Tampa area to reach the Tallahassee dispensary. He seemed eager to receive his medication after the long trip. “Where’s my stuff?”...

From CWCBExpo LA: More than 100 Cannabis and Business Subject Matter Experts Providing a Roadmap to Success at CWCBExpo LA. (Paramus, NJ July 2016)—The leading cannabis event on the West Coast, the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition (CWCBExpo) announces its educational programming for September 7-9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. More than 100 speakers will...

From Inc.com In Colorado, the IRS is auditing about 30 cannabis companies, mostly over form 8300 related to large deposits. Entrepreneurs say they're being targeted. The IRS appears to be harshing the mellow of some 30 cannabis companies in Colorado. That's according to tax lawyers, accountants, and business owners in the state, who say the federal agency is auditing the cannabis entrepreneurs for tax years...

From MSNBC: The first television ad for a marijuana product, set to run on a local Colorado station Tuesday night, has been pulled from the lineup over legal concerns. The 15-second spot for Neos, which makes “vape pens” infused with cannabis oil, was scheduled to air on Denver ABC affiliate KMGH before the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show, a Neos representative told...

California political leaders have become remarkably bipartisan in their support for new laws to regulate cannabis. Bringing the product into the sunshine after decades in the shadows is not controversial, at least in the halls of the state capitol. Voters’ support may be another story. While polling shows a slight majority of Californians favor freeing cannabis from its medicinal boundaries...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., July 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Pazoo, Inc. (OTC Pinks: PZOO) is pleased to announce that on July 18, 2016, its subsidiary MA & Associates, LLC, a best-in-class cannabis testing lab in Las Vegas received notice of acceptance from the Division of Public and Behavioral Health Medical Marijuana Program for the State of Nevada. The letter states that our...

Stocking the Pinkpuff disposable vape pen—a pure sativa plant (GH169) whose founder bred it to be a natural female libido enhancer—could make your profits swoon. “My old lady turned into a tramp and started screwing me like crazy.” When Denver-based GH Labs founder Vance heard those words from a biker pal, he knew he was onto something. His friend had spent...

Puffco chief executive officer Roger Volodarsky on the importance of R&D, appealing to critical connoisseurs, Chinese knockoffs, and the revolutionary new coiless vaporizer Puffco Plus. Somewhere in an office in Brooklyn, New York, the dozen or so employees at Puffco are trying to find a better way to deliver the finest oils in the form of a vape pen....

Before launching Precision Extraction Solutions in 2014, Nick Tennant, the company’s chief executive officer, worked as a private cannabis consultant for grows and extraction. Then he had an epiphany. “I realized I wanted to produce the world’s finest, top-quality extraction equipment with premier customer service and tech support,” he said. Precision Extraction Solutions now employs more than twenty people in...