Portland Commissioner Dan Saltzman has proposed a measure that would limit regulation on newly functioning recreational marijuana facilities by creating a “marijuana retail zone” in the city’s downtown area. Members of the community sounded off to GoLocal about the idea of a “green-light district.”

Saltzman said he wants to eliminate a rule that forbids two marijuana businesses from operating within 1,000 feet of one another in Portland’s central city, which includes downtown Portland and the Lloyd District. Marijuana businesses and dispensaries would still be required to be at least 1,000 feet away from a school.

The French drinks group, which recently changed its name from Belvedere, describes Shotka as a “premium” cannabis-flavoured vodka targeted towards “rebellious night-clubbing fans”.

First launched in Spain this summer in partnership with nightlife company Matinée Group, Shotka is said to have the “unique” taste of cannabis, without its narcotic effects.

Spanish actress Rossy de Palma promoted Shotka through a video teaser played at Matinée Group’s Circuit Festival, while 600 Shotka parties were held around the country.

The brand now plans to roll out acorss the US, Canada, Poland, Denmark, Bulgaria, France, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia and Ukrains, as well as global travel retail.

In the prior installment in this series, we discussed the ethical considerations triggered by a lawyer personally using marijuana. To summarize, the ethical prohibition regarding criminal conduct by the attorney only applies to crimes that reflect on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness to practiced law (so-called “crimes of moral turpitude”). Our conclusion was that a lawyer using marijuana, without more, does not create an ethical problem under Rule 8.4(b), as long as the attorney is not under the influence while practicing. 

Portland, Oregon is home to one of the best marijuana scenes on the planet, and it’s getting better everyday. There are so many marijuana stores in Portland right now that you can almost drive down any busy street and see multiple marijuana stores. Oregon has always been home to amazing marijuana growers, and now many of those growers are taking their harvests to PDX stores to sell them to the masses. Portland’s City Commissioner Dan Saltzman wants to create a ‘green light district’ in Portland to concentrate marijuana outlets. Per Willamette Week:

Anthony Rivera wants Indian tribes to serve the $3 billion trade.

Shaun Gindi brought a duffel bag stuffed with a thousand $20 bills to open a checking account at his local Chase branch. The bank closed his account after a week. As the owner of two marijuana shops and a weed warehouse in Colorado, where the drug is legal, Gindi is a pariah to banks, which face expensive compliance hurdles and uncertain legal consequences because the marijuana business still violates federal law. Of the more than 7,600 banks and credit unions in the U.S., only about 220 accept cannabis cash, according to the Department of the Treasury. “I’ve gone through at least eight banks,” Gindi says.

There are now 596 USA dollar billionaires in mainland China, Hurun said in a report released on Thursday, That number jumps to 715 if Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau are included and compares to 537 American billionaires, based on Hurun's calculations.

"The world used to look to American entrepreneurs... for inspiration".

According to Hurun, 16 of the 1,877 people on its rich list are in different degrees of trouble with the Chinese authorities, including seven under investigation, four awaiting sentencing and three who have disappeared altogether.

Lombard native Dan Scheidt opened his first medical marijuana dispensary eight years ago in Boulder, Colorado.

At that time, his business was one of only five in the city of 150,000. In the next eight years, the number of dispensaries would grow to 54 in the city, forcing Scheidt to close his first business. He was most recently working as the manager of another dispensary in Boulder when his father sent him a newspaper article about a medical marijuana business opening closer to his hometown.

When Chlormet Technologies (CSE:PUF) acquired AAA Heidelberg, a company in the process of applying for an Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) license with Heath Canada it already had a partially completed 8800 square foot marijuana cultivation facility in London, Ontario. Soon after, Chlormet added a facility for production and processing of marijuana in Washington State.

Get ready for some corny “peace pipe” jokes because Native American tribes are jumping on the weed wagon.

State of the industrial hemp/cannabis seed markets are chaos.

Hemp seedgrain cultivation supports the entire Canadian hemp industry.