PotBot’s feature in Entrepreneur Magazine’s ‘Top 10 Startups in Cannabis You Need To Watch’ is a welcome recognition of the innovation within the emerging cannabis industry and its continued establishment as a serious, lucrative business sector.

“PotBotics is excited to be recognized as one of Entrepreneur’s top ten cannabis startups! This coverage not only gives us validation for the work PotBotics drives, but inspires our team to find more ways we can help patients use science to effectively choose cannabis.” says David Goldstein, CEO of PotBotics.

Earnings season is starting to heat up and so far, it has been unimpressive at best. Companies continue to cite weakness as a result of weaker global demand and a stronger dollar, and we expect this to be a theme of this earnings season.

The combination of weak earnings, slowing demand, and poor economic data, will create a great opportunity for investor to buy quality companies at a discount…but you need to know where to look.

The markets are trading lower this morning after China registered its steepest monthly drop in its exports since February, with a 10% year-on-year contraction compared with expectations for a 3.3% decline.

Although we expect this trend to continue, we want to highlight stocks that are monitoring for a buy opportunity on further weakness.

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A molecular information company called Medicinal Genomics (MCG) has partnered with 12 cannabis processors and cultivators to develop genomics-based safety and quality standards, and they are using the bitcoin blockchain to track DNA sequencing cannabis strains.

Inconsistent Strains Pose Challenge

Canopy San Diego, Southern California's only seed-stage accelerator program for technology and business infrastructure companies that support the legal cannabis industry, is pleased to announce the companies participating in their inaugural cohort. As an accelerator, Canopy San Diego invests cash, mentorship, and services to accelerate the development of their portfolio companies. Canopy San Diego does not invest in companies that directly grow or sell cannabis and its derivatives.

The Canopy San Diego accelerator program consists of a 16-week cannabis-specific business accelerator program that is designed to accelerate business development and prepare the portfolio companies to raise outside capital upon graduation in early February.

There are a few things Andrea Brooks wishes she’d known before getting into the cannabis industry.

It’s been almost one year since Brooks founded Sava, an e-commerce platform for hand-crafted cannabis goods in San Francisco, California.

As nine states prepare to vote on recreational or medical marijuana legislation in the upcoming U.S. election – and prospective cannabis professionals in those states gather in growing numbers on the sidelines – Brooks considers it more important than ever to share what she’s learned about the challenges (and the joys) of operating within this complex and ever-evolving industry.

Most cannabis entrepreneurs huff and puff at the financial regulations in their industry. Not Lamine Zarrad.

“For me, personally, it was an opportunity,” said Zarrad, 37, the founder of Denver cannabis technology startup Tokken (pronounced like an arcade token).

In SEC filings since March, Zarrad has reported raising $750,000 to build Tokken, an app consumers can use to purchase marijuana from their phones. Because regulators subject legal marijuana to sharper scrutiny than other industries, many banks and payment processors shun cannabis companies, leaving them to operate on a cash-only basis.

Long gone are the scary days of Reefer Madness and an insurmountable societal fear of cannabis. CNN's Sanjay Gupta recently blew up a 70-year myth about the enigmatic herb, confirming its medicinal properties. This, while some states are legalizing the herb's recreational use, and even more states already permit medical marijuana and its derivatives.

A dozen medicinal cannabis cultivators and processors have partnered with Medicinal Genomics to record and track the genetics of cannabis strains on the Bitcoin blockchain to ensure product consistency and quality.

From backroom to storefront, cannabis is leveraging the advances in data analytics driven by other industries.

If you're new to retail cannabis, chances are you're new to business in general. So the whole meaning and value of analytics may elude you. If analytics are new new to you, you had better get a grasp of what data means to you and your business potential.

Let's explore the effect of analytics on the cannabis economy.

Fortune420 Group today announced the launch of its new jobs board CannabisCareers.com – a real-time dashboard dedicated to the legal marijuana jobs market.

Built on prime virtual real-estate and in support of industry related resources, CannabisCareers.com provides job seekers with a streamlined list of aggregated excerpts and links from some of the most trusted feed sources in the industry.