In the suburbs of Washington, the authorized clinic opened by the former rabbi delivers to patients their dose of medical marijuana. But procurement opportunities remain limited for an ever-increasing demand.                 

The transaction takes just a few minutes behind a closed door. The client, or rather the patient recovers his wares against a handful of twenty dollar bills and left the scene, but not without welcomed Jeffrey Kahn, head of the clinic, a former rabbi. This scene takes place dozens of times a day, in a flowery decor with a cozy atmosphere, to the sound of jazz music.

Diversity, like love and peace, is a virtue widely embraced. Getting it done takes working through the grittier details, though. According to Jesce Horton, Cofounder and Vice President of the Minority Cannabis Business Association, speaking at a recent MJ Freeway Webinar on Diversity in the Cannabis Industry, “This is an opportunity not just to build another industry, but a new, different and better industry.”

Meet the attendees of the first Women Grow Leadership Summit, a gathering devoted to bringing more women into the marijuana business.

Now that marijuana has gone from illicit hippie drug to (sort of) legal medicinal plant, pot is beginning to acquire the same trappings that go along with any other industry. That means the emergence of boutique-style dispensaries, branded designer strains, “budtenders,” and, yes, business conferences.

First Three Supercritical CO2 Extractors Installed In Northern California

Denver, Colorado - May 30, 2015 - INTIVA Inc. (“INTIVA” or the “Company”) today announced that its jointly-owned subsidiary, INTIVA Sonoma LLC, has begun leasing oil extraction systems to medical cannabis growers and processors. INTIVA Sonoma LLC (“Sonoma”) is 50 percent owned by the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, INTIVA Finance LLC, and 50 percent owned by the manufacturer of the extraction systems.

WILLISTON, N.D. (Reuters) - The former chairman of a North Dakota Indian nation that controls one-third of the state's oil output has formed a marijuana company to help tribes around the United States produce and distribute the drug.

Tex "Red-Tipped Arrow" Hall, who until last fall led the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation, has formed Native American Organics LLC with California-based Wright Family Organics LLC, a medical marijuana company, the companies said in a statement.

Native American Organics said it will help Indian tribes grow and distribute marijuana to wherever legally possible, as well as offer expertise on hydroponics and genetics and advice on how best to work with state and federal officials.

Overall revenue within the I-502 State-legal Cannabis market continues to steadily increase in a largely consistent (linear) fashion, driven largely by the ever-increasing number of Retail stores licensed by the LCB (154, as of May 18 … with approximately 140 actually open for business). Should the LCB continue to grant retail licenses at the current rate, all 334 allocated stores should be licensed by May 15, 2016.

A marijuana consumer group protested outside a LivWell location on South Broadway over the weekend, claiming the dispensary chain uses potentially harmful pesticides and doesn't care about consumer health. But LivWell says those accusations are simply untrue.

Senate Bill 143 will legalize marijuana (cannabinoids) as a medicine and take Louisiana back to  100 years ago, before there was any regulation of medicine by the federal Food and Drug Administration. That regulation has given us the best medicine approval process in the world. All medicines must be proven to be safe and effective by the FDA. SB 143 removes the safeguards that are in our state law that require that cannabinoid medicines meet FDA standards.

In mid-April, a former Colorado Springs-area Fox Sports radio outlet switched its format to K-HIGH, a marijuana-talk station.

Now, a Denver station has followed suit.

What had been KDCO-FM/Mile High Sports Radio is now KBUD-FM, also known as Smokin 94.1.

Cannabistro hopes to re-imagine the “fine art of getting high” by offering diners four gourmet courses inspired by the herb. Hosted by chefs from London’s Grub Club, the event’s menu promises to chart the journey from “the way up to the inevitable munchies on the way down”.

The evening will be split into two halves with the first half based around getting high. Dishes include oxtail ravioli, homegrown herb, hemp and beef bone broth and hemp-cured mackerel, samphire, beetroot and horseradish.

The second half meanwhile will focus on providing relief from “the munchies”, offering hungry diners a kebab and a Snickers bar.