With a new year and a new presidential administration set to begin, my firm is fielding a lot of questions about what is going to happen and is hearing a lot of claims about the cannabis industry that just aren’t true. In the past, I’ve written about the top 10 industry red flags and the top 10 industry red herrings. In this post, I discuss the following six bogus claims about the marijuana industry:

President-elect Donald Trump and appointee U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not impair state-legal marijuana.

Eaze is a cannabis delivery service in California. Using the company app, customers can order online from a choice of high-quality, lab-tested products, and then track the progress from the local dispensary to their homes. Eaze has become the largest such company in the country, growing with the help of $13-million of venture capital investment late last fall. We recently caught up with founder Keith McCarty by e-mail. Here are his thoughts on the company's growth potential in the era of greatly expanding medical and recreational cannabis markets.

Test your pot knowledge before you invest in cannabis.

Marijuana legalization has made the marijuana industry incredibly alluring to investors. The marijuana market is expected to surge to $21 billion by 2020, and that's got many people wondering which marijuana stocks could benefit most.

While the marijuana market is undeniably growing quickly, and that's good news for marijuana stocks, most investors don't have enough information about the pros and cons associated with marijuana companies to make the best money-making decisions. Do you have the knowledge necessary to profit from marijuana's explosive growth opportunity?

When it comes to marijuana plants and growing to get a better harvest, it is best to avoid bad practices and focus on getting healthy cannabis plants. How do you do this? You should choose the right medium for growing your marijuana plants. This is very important. So, make sure that your marijuana garden is prepared using compost. Why? Well, compost adds rich nutrients and microorganisms to the plant. It also aerates the soil so that there is sufficient oxygen flow in the root. You can pick up some compost at any local nursery or you can make this on your own.

The Compost Bin

On a bustling stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard lined by vintage stores and eateries, the MedMen shop looks right at home.

Sunlight streams in through the store’s floor-to-ceiling windows. Inside, salespeople in bright red T-shirts greet shoppers. Merchandise is carefully arranged on sleek wooden tables lined with iPads.

It’s a retail scene reminiscent of an Apple store, but the high-tech gadgets on sale are vape pens. 

After years of bullet-proof glass and burglar bars, marijuana shops are starting to get a makeover.

After 10 years in the nascent natural beauty industry, Jessica Assaf, 26, went to Harvard Business School thinking she’d come out with a next-level beauty idea—instead she graduated with a plan for revolutionizing the cannabis product industry, with women at the helm.

We talked to Los Angeles-based about the billion-dollar “greenrush” of new cannabis-based products coming to market, how she and thousands of other entrepreneurs are making over the plant as a wellness ingredient, and for (ridiculously fascinating) intel on the movement and business she’s coined Cannabis Feminist.

California’s new marijuana laws don’t take effect until 2018, but a big money race to help the state regulate the industry is already in progress.

Even though California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana and is the largest legal marijuana market in the country, it has not yet adapted a system for the government to track product. These kinds of protocols, similar to those that exist for pharmaceuticals, have become standard in other legal states.

Although political uncertainties are restraining momentum, entrepreneurs interested in pot operations are heating up the greater Portland industrial market.

With recreational marijuana use on the verge of becoming legal in Maine, real estate brokers are seeing a jump in demand for industrial spaces that could become indoor marijuana farms in the not-too-distant future.

Marijuana is scheduled to become legal to use and possess Jan. 30, but the scramble for suitable warehouse space for commercial growing has begun, helping to push lease rates to nearly twice what they were six years ago in Greater Portland.

In fact, legal weed could be helping brewers sell more beer.

Although some believe the legalization of marijuana in a growing number of states is drastically cutting into the profits of the brewing industry, a new report finds this claim is mostly false.

According to market analysis firm Bernstein, the talk over legal weed crippling the American beer market is not exactly accurate. In fact, the report published last week suggests the legalization of medical marijuana is more than likely helping brewers sell more beer.

'So often in government we are reacting to things, instead of getting in front of things'

The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce is already working on a policy to deal with the impact that legalized marijuana could have in the workplace.

The federal government has promised to table legislation this spring but it could take much longer for the bill to be studied and eventually passed into law.

"This is coming at us now, this is going to happen, there is going to be legalization of marijuana," said chamber CEO Janet Riopel.

"So this is something that has very much hit our radar, and especially in safety-sensitive workplaces, employers have said marijuana use is inconsistent with safe work places."