In November of 2014, residents in Oregon approved Measure 91, legalizing the use and sale of recreational marijuana adding jobs. Already, it appears that 2,156 new jobs have been created in the state’s marijuana industry. The Oregon Cannabis Jobs Report was recently released and has analyzed the impact of the newly legal market. According to the report’s website, the goal...

Could America's homeless population be saved with legal marijuana? Tax revenues from marijuana sales are already being used to upgrade and build new schools. Colorado’s third largest city has decided to use a portion of taxes derived from marijuana sales to combat homelessness.   The Aurora Sentinel has reported that city officials expect to collect $4.5 million worth of taxes from marijuana...

Already representing clients in thirteen states and abroad, the respected Colorado-based law firm Hoban & Feola has increased its cachet by recasting itself as a national cannabis law firm serving clients as a legal one-stop-shop of sorts, the first of its kind for the industry. According to Hoban & Feola partner Bob Hoban, one of the foremost experts on U.S....

Florida is thought to be one of the illegal marijuana grow capitals of the United States. In 2011, it was reported that Florida led the nation in illegal indoor grow busts. In 2014 alone, authorities destroyed 95 million dollars worth of marijuana obtained in illegal grow operations. Even as Florida authorities have vigorously targeted marijuana grow operations, considerable momentum has been...

THE FIRST CYCLE of weed legislation has allowed Texas a few theoretical baby steps into the cannabiz, but as we close in on one year after passage of Senate Bill 339, what actually is happening in Texas—to activists and entrepreneurs on the ground? The Texas Compassionate Use Act (Senate Bill 339) went into effect June 1, 2015. The law allows patients...

Hepburns’s solventless ice-water hash pre-rolls are heating up the California market with their juicy, smooth consistency, fashionable packaging, and do-it-yourself small-batch approach. Hepburns officially came together in January 2015, but founder Allie Butler dreamed up the concept years earlier during her stint as a patient consultant at San Francisco’s Apothecarium dispensary. “The most popular product was a pack of pre-rolled...

THE MASS ARRESTS linked to President Richard Nixon’s War on Drugs continues to display its influence on U.S. policy. Recently, an unreleased interview with Nixon aide, John Ehrlichman, surfaced bringing the controversial anti-drug effort of the 1970’s back in the spotlight. In 1994, author Dan Baum was working on a book detailing the politics of drug prohibition. He conducted an interview with...

Immigration has been a hot button issue in the United States for years. As we approach the 2016 presidential election, the passion elicited from this topic seems to be even more palpable. There have been frequent politically charged discussions on building walls, deportation, and refugees. However, it seems one key demographic of immigrants is going unnoticed.  Medical marijuana immigration appears to...

After raising a cool $46.7 million, PAX Labs Inc. is loading up for massive expansion of a nine-year-old, vape-turned-lifestyle brand. Here, founders Adam Bowen and James Monsees talk year-on-year growth, the secrets to PAX’s spectacular rise, targeting dispensaries and non-traditional outlets for distribution—and what each thinks of the other. On most damp, foggy middays in San Francisco’s Mission District, you could...

There has long been a great divide between cosmopolitan cities and small town America. With traditional industries such as coal and manufacturing on the decline, many young people have been compelled to leave their small town setting for a career in the big cities. The divide seems poised to grow even larger as tech jobs lead the new economy. Commercial marijuana...