Amber Norori’s oped on April 19 (“Legalization of marijuana could promote drought alleviation”) contains many fallacies, leading the author to false conclusions.

She writes, “The average cannabis plant needs 6 gallons of water a day and has an average 150-day grow cycle, so for a medium sized grow with about 500 plants, that would be a total of 450,000 gallons for one harvest of one plot. To put this water use into perspective, the amount of water needed to raise cannabis is double the amount of water needed to grow grapes.”

County bans on licensed recreational marijuana businesses may result in millions of dollars of lost economic activity, according to one analyst.

Marion County alone could lose $110 million in economic activity this year as business goes elsewhere because of its ban, said Beau Whitney, an economist and vice president of government and compliance at Toronto-based Golden Leaf Holdings.

Nineteen Oregon counties and 86 Oregon cities have banned marijuana producers, processors, wholesalers and retailers.

*Snoop Dogg is among investors who put money into the marijuana startup, Eaze, along with M Ventures, 500 Startups and Fresh VC, according to Business Insider.

Eaze raised $10 million from investors. It’s an on-demand marijuana-delivery startup. It connects California’s medical-marijuana patients with local dispensaries.

Uber made the on-demand delivery a trend. Eaze made $1.5 million recently for having deliveries at people’s doors in 10 minutes.

The marijuana industry is one of the most popular things on the planet right now. Cannabis has gone from being entirely underground to becoming more mainstream every day. The cannabis industry is new, it is exciting, and it seems like the industry has almost unlimited potential. If you go to any cannabis event and talk to people that are in the industry, you can see on their faces how fired up they are to be pursuing their dream in one form or another.

In the fields around Taranto, Puglia, more and more farmers are sowing fields of cannabis in a bid to save their precious soil which has been rendered unsafe thanks to years of pollution from Europe's biggest steel plant.

The cannabis industry in Toronto these days can feel a lot like riding Space Mountain. The twists and turns are sudden; you’re mostly kept in the dark and, when the sun rises the following morning, you can’t believe how much the trip ended up costing.

420 is a mega-marijuana mart in Olympia, Washington — a big box store selling pot from local producers with names like “time bomb.”

But business is certainly booming, according to owner Chad Champagne, and there was a steady stream of customers the morning and afternoon Global News paid a visit to the store.

“Demand is high,” Champagne told Global News. “People now feel comfortable coming in and buying pot.”

He said his customer base is a bit older than many might expect. “People in their mid-40s and mostly male.”

The cash-only joint is run like Fort Knox, with three different security systems and night patrols.

But in the backroom, vaults are filled with the green stuff rather than greenbacks.

Back in 2003 the DEA ran “Operation Pipe Dreams”, effectively shutting down every bong shop selling paraphernalia on the internet. The ill-fated and misguided war on drugs fueled then Attorney General John Ashcroft with nary an eye to the future of marijuana.

Michael Berger, the Associate Editor of MoneyShow.com, is a leading expert on the cannabis sector, highlights the fastest growing licensed medical cannabis producer and views the company as a buy opportunity after reporting its third quarter earnings.

As cannabis continues to become mainstream, more investors will become attracted to the sector and look for investment opportunities within it.