Even before selecting five nurseries to become Florida's first legal pot producers, Department of Health officials will face a challenge from at least one grower whose application was tossed out because it was late.

The department's Office of Compassionate Use staff rejected two of the 30 applications from nurseries hoping to get chosen as one of the five coveted "dispensing organizations." Both were tossed because they were received after a 5 p.m. deadline following a frenzied scene during a torrential downpour July 8 at the agency's headquarters.

Both nurseries say their representatives were told by Department of Health workers that the 5 p.m. deadline didn't apply.

The Coming Age of Abundance

Peter Diamandis has a radical idea. The coming age will be one of Abundance.  Not for the few, but for the many, the bottom 3 billion on our planet. He focuses on the disruptive and radical changes rolling across our planet.  Information and all that it entails, allows everyone with a smartphone connected to the internet to gain access to knowledge. Knowledge is power. The ancient practices of limitations and scarcity thinking are giving way to a new paradigm that is transforming every segment of human civilization.

Denver, Colorado - July 27, 2015  - INTIVA Inc. announced today that it has increased the planting of industrial hemp from one acre to six acres (261,000 square feet) at the Company’s INTIVA ACRES, located in Pueblo County, Colorado.

INTIVA management made the decision to increase the growing of industrial hemp at INTIVA ACRES due to two principal reasons: (i) the increasing demand for cannabidiol (CBD) extracts; and (ii) the additional availability of of high-CBD strain of industrial hemp seeds.

Marijuana products and paraphernalia are displayed at the Cannabis World Congress Expo on June 19, 2015. Marijuana consumption is growing into a multimillion dollar industry.

Marijuana dispensary operators have begun receiving letters warning them that the time has come for edibles to disappear from their stores.

“City policy is that edibles, except for oils, tinctures and capsules, will not be permitted to be sold,” states a document issued by the City of Vancouver’s planning and development services department. “Effective immediately, edibles cannot be sold in your business.”

Government health experts warn in a new report that the risks of consuming marijuana-infused edibles like weed brownies and other snacks mustn’t be understated following the suicide last year of a man whose death has been blamed on pot.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control said on Friday that there’s “a potential danger” that comes with consuming marijuana-infused edibles, evidenced by an incident last March in which a 19-year-old man jumped to his death from the fourth-floor balcony of a Denver, Colorado, hotel while high.

Every time you think you’ve got a handle on the last big tech or marketing phase, a new one comes along. Hopefully you’ve already gotten mobile marketing down, because the next big thing for marketers to get on top of is the wearables craze. Many of the most popular wearables on the market today deal directly with health and we can expect that trend to continue as more tech companies realize how lucrative the market is. As such, while all marketers have good reason to pay attention to wearables, healthcare marketers have extra reason to do so. 

WHAT ARE WEARABLES?

Dixie Elixirs and Amercanex sign wholesale distribution agreement for all Dixie Products on the ACE Marketplace

Amercanex, which operates the ACE Marketplace, today announced a landmark partnership with Dixie Brands Inc., providing Dixie’s affiliates by state, the rights to conduct wholesale distribution of the Dixie Elixirs and Edibles line, on the American Cannabis Exchange throughout the country(s) and state(s) where Amercanex operates. As the first fully electronic cannabis marketplace in which cultivators, wholesale distributors and retail vendors can buy and sell their inventories in a fully transparent intra-state market, this partnership marks another first for Amercanex as the Company continues to be at the forefront of the emerging cannabis market.

Early this Spring I joined others who spoke in a marijuana conference in San Diego, California, titled: — “Marijuana: The Next Big Thing in Native American Economic Development?” Our panel lectured on what was perceived by some Indian Tribes to be a Policy Shift by the Federal Government related to the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act and other drug enforcement laws on native lands.

Whether you realize it or not, the perception of marijuana is changing at an extremely rapid pace.

The drug, which is still classified as schedule 1 by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, meaning it is illicit and has no medically beneficial qualities, has gained both the public's favor and that of quite a few legislators. As it now stands, 23 states plus Washington, D.C., have legalized marijuana for medicinal purposes ranging from glaucoma to terminal cancers. In addition, four states (Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington), along with Washington, D.C., have legalized the recreational use of the drug.