Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says government liquor stores are the best place to sell marijuana if and when the federal government legalizes the drug.

Selinger says Manitoba Liquor Mart outlets have staff that are well-trained on the potential risks of alcohol, and he suggests they would be in the same position to provide advice about marijuana.

He says there would be no requirement for workers to consume the drug.

Selinger adds there would probably be some private involvement too.

Liquor is sold in private outlets in some rural Manitoba areas where there is no government store, and Selinger says he expects that model could be used for marijuana as well.

Earlier this month a group of women in Oregon's marijuana industry came up with a plan to donate baskets complete with turkeys and the fixings for a Thanksgiving Day meal for 20 needy families in Eugene.

The group, Women Leaders in Cannabis, turned to the Oregon Department of Human Services, hoping the agency would get the baskets to families.

At first, an agency employee based in the Eugene office welcomed the gift, said Lindsey Jacobsen, a founder of the group. But a few days later, the state reversed course, saying staff was spending too much time making arrangements for the gift.

The real reason, as Jacobsen suspected, was the gift's connection to cannabis.

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Boca Raton, Nov. 19, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BOCA RATON, FL / Earth Science Tech, Inc. ( ETST ) ("ETST" or "the Company"), a unique biotechnology publicly traded company focused on nutraceuticals, bioceuticals and dietary supplements, announces interim results from phase 1 in introducing the ETST line of Nutraceutical and Bioceutical products to former professional athletes.

Company spent months ushering tenant through the arduous permitting process that culminated in a CUP approval yesterday 

As Neutra Corp. (OTCQB: NTRR) continues working to become a major service and technology provider in the nation’s fastest-growing industry, the company’s joint venture partner is close to securing two high-profile opportunities to introduce its products into important new markets.

BOULDER — Nascent cannabis entrepreneurs from Canopy Boulder’s fall class faced a tough crowd of investors at eTown Hall on Wednesday, fielding questions about unproven business models and inflated valuations during an investor preview round of pitches.

Teams from nine companies presented in private sessions to groups of local investors, a warm-up of sorts to the public event Wednesday evening. About 30 investors were in attendance, full of advice for the green businesses.

“Don’t pitch me a product; pitch me the market,” said Don Grede, chief capital officer for California-based Aquarius Cannabis, a marijuana branding company. “You should be able to tell me why I should invest without even identifying the product.”

One of the companies we have become more favorable on is CannaVest Corp. (CANV). The company develops, produces, markets, and sells raw materials and end consumer products containing the hemp plant extract, cannabidiol (CBD). CANV is currently establishing pilot hemp growing operations in the United States with the goal of establishing domestic industrial hemp operations in the future. CANV refines CBD into its own PlusCBD Oil brand and it also resells raw industrial hemp product to third parties. The company’s subsidiaries include: US Hemp Oil, LLC, and CannaVest Laboratories, LLC.

It’s an interesting time for marijuana, more US states are looking ahead to full legalization and Canada is moving forward with a wide scale plan which could eventually legalize cannabis across the whole country. Jamaica is getting serious about building a cannabis industry and more countries such as Columbia, Australia, and New Zealand are looking at changing their laws to accommodate marijuana on a medical basis.

Here are the top 10 business sectors that will thrive under this process:

1. Agriculture

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Tribes across the U.S. are finding marijuana is risky business nearly a year after a Justice Department policy indicated they could grow and sell pot under the same guidelines as states.

Federal raids on tribal cannabis operations in California followed by a South Dakota tribe's move this month to burn its crop amid fears it could be next have raised questions over whether there's more to complying with DOJ standards than a department memo suggested last December.