Seattle-based Headset, a provider of data and analytics to the cannabis industry, announced Monday it entered into a partnership with Pax Labs, a consumer technology brand that designs and develops vaporizers. Among other benefits, the...
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Denver law firm creates cannabis, industrial hemp industry group
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, a Denver-based law firm and lobbying giant, said it has created a marijuana and industrial hemp industry group. The firm launched the group to focus on marijuana and industrial hemp as they become more "mainstream," according to...
Marijuana company Sol Global to rebrand with new name
Toronto-based Sol Global Investments, which is increasingly focusing on the U.S. cannabis market, is changing its name to Bluma Wellness as part of a rebranding strategy. Bluma is an ancient Hebrew word meaning to flower, bloom or blossom,...
Aphria latest major Canadian cannabis company to turn a profit
Aphria on Thursday became one of the rare Canadian cannabis companies to report a net profit by posting record net revenues of 128.6 million Canadian dollars ($97.3 million) in its fiscal fourth quarter, a whopping 969% increase from a year earlier. Revenues also...
Tennessee treasurer orders state pension fund to sell marijuana investment
Tennessee’s treasurer has ordered the state’s pension fund manager to sell stock in a marijuana company after learning about the investment.
7 Oklahoma cannabis shops file suit, seek release from ‘Facebook Jail’
Seven Oklahoma medical marijuana dispensaries have sued Facebook, claiming the social media giant placed them in "Facebook Jail" for posting about their operations. The lawsuit by the Oklahoma dispensaries is the latest of a flurry of complaints by cannabis companies...
Dixie Brands’ board loses two Auxly marijuana executives
Two top executives at the Canadian-based Auxly Cannabis Group resigned from the board of Dixie Brands, a Denver-based maker of cannabis-infused products. Hugo Alves, the president of Auxly, and Michael Lickver, senior vice president of strategy for the Vancouver,...
Arizona attorney general OKs digital medical cannabis payments
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich approved a trial program allowing digital payments to medical marijuana dispensaries, a move that could significantly influence the way the state's unbanked MMJ firms transact business in the future. ...
British tobacco giant invests CA$123 million in Canadian cannabis firm Auxly
Imperial Brands said it will invest 123 million Canadian dollars ($93.4 million) in a British Columbia cannabis company, the United Kingdom tobacco giant's latest foray into the marijuana industry. With the investment, Imperial is taking a 19.9% stake in Auxly...
Second medical marijuana crop planted in Louisiana
Southern University's medical cannabis grower planted its first marijuana seeds, marking the second MMJ crop planted in the state. The two crops represent an important step in allowing the fledgling MMJ industry to take root in the state. [include_post...
Oklahoma cannabis firm faces copyright lawsuit
A Canadian children's entertainment company filed a lawsuit accusing a medical marijuana dispensary chain based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, of copyright infringement. Toronto-based Nelvana Enterprises' suit, filed in federal court in Tulsa, alleges that Treehouse Dispensaries...
Juneau, Alaska, OKs on-premise marijuana edibles consumption
Alaska's capital city approved an ordinance permitting customers to consume cannabis edibles inside licensed retail establishments. The ordinance, approved in a 6-2 vote by the Juneau Assembly, also allows marijuana to be smoked in designated outdoor areas in Alaska's...
