There has been much speculation from the financial world in the market potential of the MMPR (Canada’s Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulation), with investors encouraged by Health Canada’s estimates of some 450,000 potential patients by 2024. But what are these projections based on? It appears Health Canada  has derived their numbers based on the growth of the previous MMAR program, but is this a realistic measure of ‘customer’ growth in this new system?

PARAMUS N.J. May 29 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A six-hour certification program on "How to Open a Cannabis Business" is being presented at the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition (CWCBExpo) at the Javits Center in New York NY.Taking place on Wednesday June 17th this workshop is part of a dedicated day of education at the leading event on the East Coast for the legalized and medical marijuana industry.

A Bay Area company is catering to medical marijuana users statewide who have a sweet tooth.

It’s not the eggs that make these pastries special, though there are eggs along with sugar, chocolate and flour. These pastries are high in calories, high in carbs, but these are high in potency, too.

“We pretty much make our cookies like you would any other bakery, any other cookie, we just have a little bit of green in our butter,” said Danny Nunan, a baker at Korova Edibles.

The Bay Area’s Korova Edibles is making a name for itself in medicinal marijuana circles for the amount of pot it puts in its products, for having a trained pastry chef with culinary credentials, and a respected lab that works to make sure doses are accurate.

Marijuana was once the drug of choice for hazy-eyed potheads with no ambition and a loose grasp of new-age philosophy. But step aside, stoners. Since recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon and Washington DC, weed has become associated with up-and-coming entrepreneurs with networking charm and business nous.

Establishment figures are turning to marijuana as inspiration for the next big entrepreneurial idea. Or ganjapreneurial idea, if you will. The United States is now home to the Martha Stewart of weed, a women’s cannabis networking group, and Uber for weed. Meanwhile, the former chief of homeland security for New York is currently in charge of protecting marijuana shipments. Meet the very respectable leaders of America’s weed revolution.

SALEM — Pot growers worry that Oregon’s emerging hemp industry could take the buzz out of their recretional and medicinal weed.

Some lawmakers hope to clamp down on the state’s still-embryonic industrial hemp crop due to concerns that through cross-pollination hemp could harm outdoor medical marijuana grows, particularly in southern Oregon.

Hemp — a cousin of marijuana which contains much lower levels of THC, marijuana’s psychoactive component — can ruin valuable marijuana crops through cross-pollination, by lowering marijuana’s THC content, pot advocatese say.

Before they adjourned on May 6, the Colorado General Assembly sent a little warning to the city of Denver: Pesticide regulations are the purview of the state, not the city.

In March, the City of Denver’s Department of Environmental Health inspected 10 marijuana grow facilities. It required several growers to quarantine their plants based on pesticide use the department considered dangerous for human consumption. One grower had to quarantine 60,000 plants, which means they cannot be sold for people to consume. Losses for the growers could total in the millions, since some plants can be valued up to $1,000 each.

A groundbreaking ceremony at the future site of the Nevada Pure marijuana facility on Wednesday, May 27.

Clark County's medical marijuana dispensaries are nearly ready to open for business. The only thing they're missing is marijuana.

On Wednesday, ground was broken on Nevada Pure, a marijuana farm to be located in east Las Vegas. When complete, it will be larger than a football field and be capable of growing about 18,000 plants at a time.

Nevada Pure co-owner Kathy Gillespie said that currently most marijuana growers in Nevada are licensed at-home patients or caregivers. There simply isn't enough marijuana for dispensaries to sell. Nevada Pure will clone plants donated by growers.

Earlier this month, Sidecar expanded its mobile ride hailing service to deliver medical marijuana in San Francisco. It’s not the only substance the startup wants to bring to your door.

Sidecar is in talks with potential partners to deliver alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs to its users, said CEO Sunil Paul. And in case you’re craving them badly, it will get them to you in an hour. It’s not yet delivering those items but plans to by the end of the year, Paul said in an interview Wednesday.

Why does the Canadian government show blatant disrespect for Canadian marijuana growers?

That’s the question many of us are asking when we learn the Canadian government is facilitating a marijuana importation scheme in cahoots with the Australian government and an Australian “medical marijuana” company called AusCann.

AusCann is based on Norfolk Island, off Australia’s coast.

The company says it’s using two hectares of grow space to produce at least a ton of “medicinal cannabis” for export to the Canadian medical marijuana distribution system. It intends to create a “multi-million dollar” business exporting marijuana to Canada.

Britain is now home to its first-ever cannabis pharmacy.

Called Carun, the pharmacy was set up by Czech entrepreneur Michal Takac, who told the Daily Mail that he started using hemp-based products after an industrial accident seven years ago in which he lost three fingers, underwent several surgeries and was eventually fitted with custom-made prosthetic fingers that function with electromagnetic electrodes.

When synthetic prescription creams did him no good for scarring and pain, he discovered Carun ointment—made from hemp oil in the Czech Republic where the hemp is grown.