It’s becoming an all too familiar occurrence, Instagram deleting accounts related to the cannabis industry. This week’s victim, Dixie Brands, manufacturer of premium cannabis-infused products.

“This is just one more example of the daily injustices and discriminations we face as an industry,” said Dixie Brands CEO, Tripp Keber.

According to Chief Marketing Officer, Joe Hodas, Instagram deleted the company’s account and gave no explanation or responses to their repeated inquiries.

BOULDER, Colorado, January 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Surna Inc. (OTCQB: SRNA), a technology company that engineers state-of-the-art equipment for controlled environment agriculture ("CEA") with expertise in cannabis cultivation, announced today it has secured a contract for approximately $725,000 with Las Vegascultivator Cloud 9 Wholesale.

Under the terms of the agreement, Surna will provide their proprietary climate control technology to the cultivation facility for the single-phase project. The Cloud 9 Wholesale facility covers 30,000 square feet, which will require approximately 550 tons of cooling equipment for cultivation climate control.

Seattle's medical marijuana dispensaries are scrambling after receiving a 14-day notice from the state Liquor and Cannabis Board.

The CPC in Georgetown has served thousands of patients since 2010. It works with hospitals, specializing in hard-to-find treatments for chronic disease, cancer, seizures and PTSD.

"We were always going to do this stuff anyways," founder Jeremy Kaufman said while pointing to new security cameras.

Kaufman is making a lot of changes to his building, adding new security cameras, constructing new walls, removing doorways, and clearing out his basement filled with cannabis plants. It's all part of applying for a new marijuana retail license, required by legislation that's combining medical and recreational pot under one regulatory system.

Nearly two dozen states have legalized marijuana for medical use; four states, as well as Washington, D.C., now allow the sale of recreational cannabis to adults – and many more states are considering doing the same. Nevada already has a measure that would legalize pot on its November ballot, California is in the process of crafting its own initiative, and Vermont's governor may allow legislators to make the move without even taking a vote to the people.

At most offices in America, smoking a joint during your lunch break or eating cannabis-laced brownies at your desk would land you in HR.

But in some states, not only won’t you be punished — you might be rewarded.

Kyle Sherman and Chase Wiseman cofounded Flowhub, which provides software for the cannabis industry, in 2015. The Denver-based startup has been a weed-friendly workplace from day one.

“Our philosophy at Flowhub is to get s*** done,” said Sherman. “If it helps our employees get work done, then we don’t care if they consume at work.”

Sherman and Chase both consume marijuana at work, either in weekly brainstorming meetings or toward the end of the day.

“It definitely surfaces new ideas and a fresh take on things,” said Sherman.

By Teresa Mahoney

I write this entry the morning after a long night of harvesting and wet-trimming our two indoor marijuana plants. My socks in the hamper have cannabis leaves stuck to the bottoms and peel off like tape. My jacket and camera straps still reek of pot.

So, how did harvest go?

Jeremy Plumb, commercial pot grower and my growing mentor, hadn't seen the indoor kiddos for over a month, except for photos I'd been texting him, incessantly asking, "Are they done yet?"

He originally anticipated it would take around eight weeks for the plants to reach full maturity under a 12/12 light cycle – which means 12 hours of sun and 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness during a cannabis plant's flowering period.

In October, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed three bills establishing a statewide system to regulate medicinal cannabis, he called it a long-overdue framework that would “make sure patients have access to medical marijuana, while ensuring a robust tracking system.” He should have added: “Everywhere in the state, except Los Angeles,” because it turns out California's strict licensing regime won't apply to the state's largest city. What's more, under the terms of the new state law, if L.A. doesn't change its existing rules, all medicinal pot shops in the city's boundaries will be illegal in 2018.

The City Council should not let marijuana businesses set city policy.

TORONTO - Now that the LCBO has shown it can't handle its vodka, we better rethink how to sell pot.

Unless you've been high since Christmas, you know Premier Kathleen Wynne and union boss Smokey Thomas - Smokey and the Bandit - are pushing to have weed, when the feds make it legal, added to the shelves of LCBO stores.

No surprise there, given Queen's Park's chronic case of the munchies.

Few "new revenue tools" are as tempting as the marijuana business. Wynne and Thomas's Ontario Public Service Employees Union lust after it, from sales to taxes.

But can we trust them to tell weed from oregano?

Nice day for a WEED wedding! Couples flock to the world's first marijuana-themed bridal expo, complete with 'budtenders', pot-infused food, and even cannabis bouquets

• The Cannabis Wedding Expo was held on Sunday at Denver's Point Gallery
• Vendors showed attendees cannabis-focused options for food, drinks, gifts, flowers, and even photography
• Marijuana has been legal in the state of Colorado since January 2014

Marijuana-loving couples in Colorado now have the option of having their own cannabis-focused weddings that can even include a 'budtender' who doles out pot to guests.