GGS Structures Inc. is pleased to confirm that Michael Camplin will be presenting at the Monarch America first educational seminar in conjunction with the Santee Sioux Tribe of Flandreau, South Dakota October 26-28.  Mr. Camplin will be presenting on advanced cultivation facility designs in greenhouses and indoor grow facilities.

"It is a privilege for me to be added as a speaker to such an important event" states GGS Structures Inc. Sales Manager, Michael Camplin.

GGS Structures Inc. is a diversified manufacturer and part of the Growers Greenhouse Supplies group of companies. GGS was started in 1979 as a manufacturer of greenhouse structures for commercial agriculture.  Since then they have expanded both geographically and through product lines and market segments.

New Frontier’s team takes an in depth dive into ResponsibleOhio’s approach to legalization and assesses the viability of the proposal, as well as, the potential outcome for the market. ResponsibleOhio projects that by 2020 Ohio will see $2.26 billion in retail sales.  New Frontier assessed the plan and came back with a projection of $1.88 billion by 2020. This report looks at the key factors that will have a direct bearing on the success of Ohio’s ballot initiative to legalize:

 ·         10 producer limit is a poison pill for legalization supporters

·         Ohio would be first state to pass recreational marijuana without first passing medical

October is Small Business Month, an ideal chance to recognize the importance of B.C.’s small businesses to our communities and maybe for some us, the chance to consider pursuing our own dreams of owning a small business.

British Columbia’s economy owes a lot to the vision and dedication of the thousands of women and men who launch their own businesses. More than 54 per cent of us working in the private sector work for a small business and approximately 98 per cent of all businesses in the province are small businesses. It’s safe to say small businesses are a big deal in B.C.

Is the legal marijuana sold today more potent than the pot your parents or even grandparents smoked?

According to the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI), today’s cannabis is indeed stronger than it used to be, but nowhere near as strong as has been described in some media reports.

A second marijuana business in Denver in just over a week has voluntarily recalled its products because they contain a pesticide not allowed for use on cannabis.

Denver health officials announced the recall by Nature’s Cure, which also is known as Colfax Pot Shop, Wednesday after tests found high levels of a pesticide that cannot be legally used to grow the crop.

The recall extends to all of the company’s plant material as well as its concentrates purchased before Oct. 6, according to the Denver Department of Environmental Health.

The business has one retail location at 1500 E. Colfax Ave.

The cannabis industry’s oldest and largest tradeshow returns to Vegas for the 4th Annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo, Nov. 11-13 at the Rio All Suites and Casino in Las Vegas.

With more than 4,000 business leaders and major investors from 48 states and Canada, over 200 exhibitors and a 30,000 square-foot exhibit hall, attendees have three full days of access to the most target-rich environment in cannabusiness.

As the marijuana industry continues to expand, the show keeps pace with it – attendance at the first event in 2012 capped out at 400 – without sacrificing meaningful programming.

Canopy Growth Corp (CVE:CGC) (OTCMKTS:TWMJF) (FRA:11L1) and Tweed Founder and CEO Bruce Linton discusses why he doesn’t think Justin Trudeau and the newly elected Liberal Party will decriminalize marijuana, and how Tweed’s acquisition of Bedrocan highlights his companies growing customer base on both the retail medical marijuana side and on the clinical medical cannabis side under MMPR.

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A few years ago, you could’ve easily managed three or four social networks without any problem. Today it’s a bit trickier – there’s more competition out there than ever before and people are paying less attention to your brand’s messages.

The best way to get customers to pay attention and to help your brand stand out from the crowd is to develop the right habits. Here are seven habits of highly effective social media managers:

Habit # 1: Set Clear Goals

The biggest mistake you can make with social media is to not set specific goals. Without goals, you’re going nowhere. You’re wasting time.

For more than two decades, Marc-Boris St-Maurice has been fighting for the legalization of marijuana.

Now, that dream appears closer than ever to becoming a reality, with prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau making a promise to legalize and regulate pot a key tenet in his party platform. 

"I think we've come a long way," said St-Maurice, the founder of the Bloc Pot, a Quebec pro-marijuana party, and a card-carrying Liberal for the past ten years.

"The tipping point has been reached. We've now reached those so-called winning conditions."

Exactly how and when the changes will be put into place, however, remains unclear. St-Maurice said he's "cautiously optimistic" the incoming Liberal government will follow through on its promise.

In a strongly worded new report out Tuesday, researchers at the Brookings Institution call on the federal government to eliminate roadblocks to medical marijuana research in the United States.

"The federal government is stifling medical research in a rapidly transforming area of public policy that has consequences for public health and public safety," the report, written by John Hudak and Grace Wallack, says. "Statutory, regulatory, bureaucratic, and cultural barriers have paralyzed science and threatened the integrity of research freedom in this area."