by Richard T | Jan 17, 2017 | News-Entrepreneur
TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – January 17, 2017) – Tokyo Smoke, a premium cannabis-oriented lifestyle brand, has become the first Canadian cannabis consumer brand to raise capital, and oversubscribed on its first round of fundraising. Strong investment...
by Richard T | Jan 16, 2017 | News
California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada recently passed laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota enacted medical marijuana initiatives, bringing the total of states (and the District of Columbia) that allow some form of...
by Richard T | Jan 6, 2017 | News
A candy-colored pack of marijuana joints from Lola Lola, with its quirky characters splashed across the box, looks more like a prop from a Katy Perry music video than drug paraphernalia. Its quirky, good-vibes feeling is exactly what creator Michael Garganese, Jr., is...
by Richard T | Dec 24, 2016 | News
Over $1 billion has been raised in the cannabis industry in 2016, according to Viridian Capital Advisors. The billion dollar line was crossed last week in part with C$40 million ($29.8 million) raised by OrganiGram Holdings, Inc. The deal will allow for the build out...
by Richard T | Dec 19, 2016 | News-Entrepreneur
Outside a Sonoma County Fairgrounds exhibition hall last weekend, hordes of happy pot lovers walked around the Emerald Cup harvest festival, already stoned or about to be. Inside the hall, a panel of entirely sober government officials discussed the ramifications of...
by Richard T | Dec 3, 2016 | News
Jim Willett has never smoked pot. His teenage sons think he’s a square. A former Navy pilot, Willett spent a year flying drug interdiction patrols along the Washington coast, checking for ships carrying bales of marijuana. For the graying retiree, voting against the...