The Game is best known as a hip-hop artist, handpicked by Dr. Dre to join the rap group G-Unit. He’s also taken on the title of actor, with roles in several films and his own reality TV show. Now he has a new role: “potrepreneur.”

The Los Angeles rapper, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, has become part owner of The Reserve, one of 10 licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Santa Ana.

He’s also developing branded strains of marijuana flowers and concentrates that will be available first at his Tech Center Drive shop, then at other licensed dispensaries by the end of the year.

“Our mission as a community is simple: safe and legal access to a plant that saves lives and changes futures,” The Game said in a statement.

In his sunny office on the edge of town in Arcata, California, Scott Greacen pulls up a slideshow on his large high-resolution monitor. As wildflowers sway in the wind outside a window, a woodsy guitar solo starts to play along with the pictures. Greacen mutes it; he wants to focus on destruction. Aerial images of clear-cut plots within the coastal forest, bounded by dusty roads and dotted with trucks, show the intrusion of industrial marijuana cultivation into redwood groves and hillsides. Some plots are small, barely detectable. Others cover hundreds of acres with row upon row of oblong structures covered with white tarps, blighting the landscape like giant predatory maggots.

The Frederick County Council is considering a disputed proposal to allow medical marijuana cultivation on land zoned for agriculture.

County land-use regulations currently allow medical marijuana cultivation only in industrial zones. The Frederick County Farm Bureau opposes the bill, which is scheduled for a vote Tuesday evening.

Opponents say they consider medical marijuana cultivation a form of drug production. Critics also have raised security concerns.

Supporters include local farmer Larry Gude, who applied for but did not receive one of the 15 preliminary grower licenses that the Maryland Cannabis Commission awarded earlier this month. Gude and a business partner had planned to grow marijuana in a greenhouse on his family farm.

How the world still dearly loves a ranking system. Each week, we rank something from the world of pop culture in a totally objective, not to be questioned, absolutely definitive manner. It could be anything from the best Kanye West songs to the worst nightmares we’ve had from Nic Cage characters. Or it could be – as it is this week – the top five celebrity strains of marijuana.

There’s a huge buzz around the weed industry, and celebrities are cashing in. With legalization increasing across North America, musicians, artists and even reality stars are launching their own cannabis lines. Here are our five favourite endorsements:

5. Die Antwoord

LICENSED farmers will soon be able to buy and sell marijuana seed under strict controls after enabling legislation was introduced into State Parliament.

Agriculture Minister Leanne Donaldson said the amendments to the Drug Misuse Act will allow farmers to join the supply chain and will create new opportunities for agriculture.

There are already a small number of Queensland farmers able to grow industrial hemp, which has very low levels of the cannabinoid that gives the high.

According to the Government those farmers have developed seed lines which could be beneficial to medicinal marijuana growers.

Mrs Donaldson said existing laws did not allow those hemp growers to sell the seed.

With recreational marijuana on the ballot, some worry that big business will transform the way pot is grown, distributed and sold.

More than 20 years later, Hezekiah Allen remembers the Blackhawk helicopters hovering over his childhood home, the armed soldiers barricading the road to the family’s northern California pot farm, the neighbor who hang-glided to escape from the Feds. More than once, Allen came home from a friend’s house to find his mother and stepfather had been arrested again. 

The cannabis sector seems to be attracting many brilliant minds. According to reports, former Barclay’s banker Roger Jenkins is making significant investments in marijuana projects. The cannabis investment by Jenkins, who is now residing in California, goes against the normal antipathy of banks and bankers in getting involved with marijuana industry projects.

Jenkins cannabis investment is part of a group of investors who had recently acquired land in California for expanding the marijuana-related business.

California is gearing up for cannabis vote in November and aims to legalize the adult recreational use of cannabis. The Jenkins group is apparently trying to get a lead on the green rush by taking up valuable land now.

With passage of the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA), my firm’s California cannabis lawyers have been representing a steady onslaught of investors looking to get into California’s MMJ industry in some way, shape, or form. And with the vote on Proposition 64 coming up in November, excitement about the Golden State is palpable.

But it’s not all roses when it comes to current California MMJ laws and investing.

A behind-the-scenes glimpse inside Portland's boutique cannabis soirées.

“That’s my kind of Tupperware party!” exclaimed a friend on Instagram after I posted an image of a table covered in bongs, grinders, vaporizers, stash canisters, and nugs. This was my first time at a HAPPY Parties event and I was excited to document my findings. Unlike direct sales parties of yesterday, these enterprising shindigs feature cutting-edge cannabis technology with an emphasis on education while getting stoned in the comfort of your living room. I wonder what Earl Silas Tupper would think if he were alive today.

Last week, I got legal pot delivered to my Bay Area doorstep faster than most Postmates orders.

I picked out a new cartridge for my vape pen from Eaze, a medicinal marijuana delivery startup that's been dubbed the "Uber of weed," and fewer than 20 minutes later, a courier pulled up outside my apartment and handed me a white linen bag that hid my purchase.

A new "Uber of weed" or "Yelp of marijuana" crops up on the legal pot landscape every other week. There's a Birchbox-like service for "every kind of stoner." Users find love on High There, the "Tinder for weed smokers."