Weedmaps founder CEO Justin Hartfield does not think Bitcoin will help to grow the legal marijuana industry, a claim contrary to what many in the Bitcoin space claim.

Weedmaps, the online legal marijuana community, allows users to review and discuss cannabis strains and local dispensaries. The website garners two million monthly visitors with annual revenue of approximately $18 million. Widely considered the industry leading website, Weedmaps founder CEO Justin Hartfield has a unique point of view on the industry. Hartfield recently told CCN that he does not believe Bitcoin will help the cannabis industry.

Karen Paull (left) and Wendy Robbins say legal marijuana, like marriage equality, is coming to all 50 states. In the meantime, the women are making cannabis entrepreneurs rich and giving a platform to the drug's reported benefits with The Marijuana Show.

The title of Karen Paull and Wendy Robbins's reality competition, The Marijuana Show, conjures up Snoop Dogg and Cheech & Chong, not well-groomed lesbians handing out tens of millions in start-up capital.

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Over my career in marketing and advertising, every business that I worked with used video effectively. Although they were large companies, it did not matter.

In fact, it does not matter what business you are in or the size of your business. If you are in business, there is a way you can use video to market your business effectively.

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During the Hawai’i State Bar Association Convention on Oct. 23, Commissioner of Financial Institutions Iris Ikeda presented considerations for banks and other financial institutions when dealing with marijuana-related businesses.

Medical marijuana dispensaries could begin to do business as early as July 2016, but before then, banks and financial institutions should prepare.

Yes, 2015 is an exciting time for the legal Cannabis Industry as marijuana news now reaches the mainstream population hourly.

Celebrating these headlines is exciting for advocates and consumers alike, but many staunch marijuana supporters aren’t content just reading about the emerging industry — they want to participate in it.

Securing a legal license to operate a marijuana business is a complex process, but let’s assume we are among those awarded such a license in a recently minted marijuana state. How then do we begin the cultivation process?

Vancouver, BC / TheNewswire / October 26 2015 - Enertopia Corporation (ENRT-OTCBB) (TOP-CSE) (the "Company" or "Enertopia") announces it has applied for patent protection of V-LoveTM with respect to claims involving lubrication, pH balance and the bioavailability of certain vitamins and minerals via absorption through the vaginal mucosal membrane.

Enertopia has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding its technology.

Friendlier laws on medical marijuana use in Canada are already drawing American investment north or the border, and the trend is likely to further ignite if the federal Liberals make good on their promise to allow recreational use of the drug.

Poseidon Asset Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund focused squarely on the cannabis space, says it is considering boosting its Canadian holdings following Justin Trudeau's election win.

You're going to see a lot of U.S. marijuana companies listing on the Canadian exchanges up here
- Analyst Khurram Malik

"We have one core holding up there currently but we would love to expand that," says Morgan Paxhia, the hedge fund's founding partner and chief investor.

Vancouver marijuana dispensaries that did not submit a licence application last summer must close their doors “immediately”, the city has warned, or “be subject to enforcement action”.

“The City inspects these businesses regularly,” states an October 26 media release. “As with other businesses, the City will use a range of enforcement tools, including fines and legal action.”

That was included in an update on a licensing process that the city began last June with the adoption of a new legal framework for marijuana-related businesses.

Economic development package from city of Pueblo for joint venture between O.penVape and Thar Process Inc. includes $4.89 million in help retrofitting long-vacant Boeing rocket plant for hemp oil extraction

A defunct Boeing rocket plant in Pueblo will be converted into a hemp oil production facility that will employ 163 people by 2018, Pueblo Economic Development Corp. said Friday.

The jobs are expected to pay an average of $41,590 plus benefits. This is the biggest jobs announcement by PEDCO since 2008, when Vestas said it would hire 450 people, the Pueblo Chieftain reported.