Matt Chapdelaine is the founder of HerbFront.com. HerbFront.com looks to help cannabis cultivators and retail dispensary owners find real estate in desirable locations where landlords and ordinances are friendly or at least tolerant of cannabis businesses.

It’s right to celebrate when you win a cannabis cultivation or dispensary license, but shortly after the celebration it becomes evident that there are many difficult tasks ahead. One is finding real estate for your dispensary or cultivation facility that is properly zoned in a good location with a landlord that welcomes cannabis tenants. Today we’re going to learn how Herb Front solves these problems. I am pleased to welcome Matt Chapdelaine founder of Herb Front to CannaInsider today. Welcome Matt.

New survey results from Gartner Inc. show a widening gap forming between organizations already undertaking digital business initiatives and those only in the planning stage, demonstrating a clear need to invest in digital business.

Findings from the 2015 Digital Business Survey, released last week, reflect input received by Gartner, which fielded 304 surveys in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia this past May and June, notes a statement from the information technology research and advisory company.

In 2014, Charlo Greene made international headlineswhen she quit her job on-air to pursue a career in the cannabis industry amid Alaska’s push for recreational legalization. Since then, she has been growing and managing the Alaska Cannabis Club, the only legal safe access point for medical cannabis patients in the state, as well as traveling around the world to coordinate legalization efforts and give presentations at cannabis conferences and events.

Think of it as a back-to-school sales tax break, but for stoners.

Colorado's unusual tax law is forcing the state to suspend taxes on recreational marijuana for one day — Sept. 16 — during which a 10 percent sales tax and 15 percent excise tax won't be collected.

The sales-tax break would shave $20 off the price of a mid-grade ounce of pot in the Denver area, where ounces this summer sell for about $200 before tax.

It's unusual for a state that has many times rejected sales-tax holidays on things like school supplies, clothing or energy-efficient appliances. Officials say it could cost the state $3 million to $4 million.

A Passamaquoddy leader says a letter of intent with a Colorado consultant is about hemp production, but that could change, and legal gray areas abound.

The Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township has signed a letter of intent with a Denver-based medical marijuana management and consulting company to develop a cultivation facility on tribal land in Washington County.

Monarch America Inc. announced last week that it intends to design and manage a “state of the art” marijuana cultivation facility in an existing 35,000-square-foot building on Passamaquoddy Tribal Trust Land in Princeton, Maine.

INDIAN TOWNSHIP, Maine — Denver-based Monarch America Inc. has signed a letter of intent with the Passamaquoddy Tribe to design, construct and develop a marijuana cultivation facility on tribal land.

Monarch America President and CEO Eric Hagen said Tuesday the Passamaquoddy Tribe reached out to the company, which recently contracted for a similar facility with the Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe in Moody County, South Dakota.

LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / September 8, 2015 /GrowBLOX Sciences, Inc., (OTCQB: GBLX), a biopharmaceutical company with state-of-the-art technologies in plant biology and cultivation designed to produce consistent medicinal cannabis, announced today that former Nevada State Senator Sandra Tiffany has joined GBLX as General Manager of GB Sciences Nevada LLC.

CBE has been trying to get an interview with LivWell for the better part of six months, and we recently had the good fortune of speaking with the executive director/owner and transplanted Kiwi, John Lord.

John Lord

Nearly six months after the city of Denver began a crackdown on unapproved pesticides in marijuana products, a spot-check by The Denver Post found that the chemicals were still being sold to consumers.

Eight lab tests commissioned by The Post on recreational marijuana extracts purchased at two shops found most contained no pesticides that are not approved by the Colorado Department of Agriculture.

But two tests on concentrated marijuana products sold at one store found levels of three pesticides the state says cannot be used to grow marijuana. Both items were manufactured by Mahatma Concentrates in Denver, which made its extracts from raw marijuana grown by Treatments Unlimited, which operates the Altitude shops in Denver.

Even in states where it’s legal, selling cannabis and related products is sticky business — sticky icky icky. By closely adhering to state and local laws and keeping a low profile, however, entrepreneurs can greatly reduce the risk of losing their livelihood (and freedom, in cases of imprisonment) to the federal government, according to Asheville attorney and author Rod Kight. He’ll discuss his new book, Cannabis Business Law: What You Need to Know, at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café on Sunday, Sept. 13, at 3 p.m.