Nine months ago, the hot spot for marijuana investors was Maryland. At the time, investors from business, law enforcement, politics, medicine, and many other sectors were vying for marijuana licenses. Today, the hot spot is Pennsylvania, ...
March 24, 2017
On March 28-29, 2017, Cannabiz Media will be in San Jose, California as a media partner for IMN & MedMen’s The Institutional Capital & Cannabis Conference (IC3). The goal of the conference is to arm institutional and accredited investors with ...
March 16, 2017
If you want to grow your own marijuana, then there are only 16 states where you can live and grow it legally in the United States. If you don’t have a qualifying condition to get medical marijuana, then your options drop to just eight states.
February 24, 2017
Cannabiz Media is spreading the love on Valentine’s Day by giving away the Little Green Book for free on February 14, 2017 only! Use promotion code LOVE17 when you add the book to your shopping cart and checkout here or click the Get My Book button below.
February 14, 2017
Cannabiz Media has launched its newest reference tool — the Little Green Book. It’s the most comprehensive consumer and patient guide to recreational and medical marijuana in the United States. Whether you’re moving to a new state ...
February 8, 2017
As we close out the first month of 2017, it’s a good time to reflect on how far marijuana licensing has come in the past 12 months—and what a year it’s been!Throughout 2016, a few topics dominated the marijuana licensing conversation ...
February 1, 2017
Medical marijuana is legal in 29 states, but the amount of research that has been conducted related to the medical benefits of marijuana is still limited. That is because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.
January 21, 2017
Nearly every business relies on technology in some way to operate. Without it, many businesses will have to stop operations entirely. It’s a very real problem that we’ve seen often in the news, and now, technology risks are affecting the marijuana industry on a large scale.
January 12, 2017
In November 2016, Massachusetts was among four states whose residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana, but a new bill signed by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on December 31, 2016 will slow things down considerably.
January 7, 2017
In an interview with Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Cannabiz Media’s Vice President of Government Affairs, Ed Keating, shared some of the strangest marijuana laws on the books across the 29 states that have legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana.
December 28, 2016
In the Marijuana Licensing Reference Guide: 2017 Edition, Cannabiz Media identified the four most important conditions that a state has to cover in its medical marijuana program in order for businesses operating in the industry to have the greatest potential for success.
December 8, 2016
Cannabiz Media officially launched the Marijuana Licensing Reference Guide: 2017 Edition at the Marijuana Business Conference & Expo (MJBIZCon) today with its publishing partner, Business Valuation Resources (BVR)—the leading ...
November 16, 2016
Every day, business owners and operators, investors, business professionals, financial experts, regulators, lobbyists, government officials, journalists and more look for reliable and up-to-date information about the rapidly growing and changing marijuana industry.
November 16, 2016
New York isn’t the only state with overly restrictive medical marijuana regulations, but it is the state in the news about it during the past week. As USA Today reports, counties in the state of New York are experiencing huge gaps between ...
November 3, 2016
A total of six cultivators were awarded licenses to grow, process, and sell marijuana in Florida in November 2015, but as Crain’s Orlando reports, a year has passed and only two dispensaries are up and running in the state so far.
November 1, 2016
The November vote is almost here, and five states will be voting on whether or not to legalize marijuana – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. If all five states end up legalizing marijuana, that would mean a total of 10 states ...
October 21, 2016
It’s not easy to cross state lines in the marijuana industry. Cannabis is still illegal at the federal level, and as we outline in detail in Cannabiz Media’s upcoming Marijuana Licensing Reference Guide: 2017 Edition (click here to be notified when the ...
October 13, 2016
It took eight years, but a regulatory framework for growing and selling medical marijuana in Michigan has been finalized at last. Unfortunately, the regulations favor over-regulation — something that Cannabiz Media reveals as a factor that limits ...
October 7, 2016
The November election is almost here, and for many local communities around the country, it’s an opportunity to weigh in on the medical and recreational marijuana industries. You see, there is only one constant in the marijuana industry –
September 23, 2016
Marijuana might still be illegal at the federal level but for the country’s top bankers and investors, it’s part of an industry they can’t resist. In fact, investors’ interests in the marijuana industry have been growing steadily, and with five states ...
August 25, 2016
