5 Questions for Justin Hartfield: Opportunities as Cannabis Industry Becomes ‘Pimply Teenager’
WeedMaps co-founder Justin Hartfield made waves in the cannabis industry earlier this month when he launched a new venture capital fund that will invest in and acquire marijuana-related companies. Hartfield and his partner are just now in the early stages of finding investors, but they hope to raise between $10 million and $25 million. If successful, the fund – called [click to read on...]
Credit Card Companies Barring Dispensary Owners From Opening Accounts for Other Businesses
Dispensary owners affected by credit card companies’ moves to cut ties with the medical marijuana industry in recent years could find it exceedingly difficult to open merchant accounts for other [click to read more...]
Weekly Wrap-Up: 100s of California Dispensaries to Close? + Final Marijuana Regulations in Colorado
If it isn’t one thing for California’s medical marijuana industry, it’s another. The MMJ business climate in the state is as turbulent as it gets, with dispensaries and related businesses [click to read more...]
Bright Marijuana Business Outlook: 80% of Ancillary Cannabis Firms Expect ‘Big’ or Moderate Growth
The future of the marijuana industry is extremely bright, at least if you ask those who have hitched their wagon to it. Roughly 80% of executives at ancillary cannabis companies [click to read more...]
Top 20 Business-Related Aspects of Colorado’s Recreational Marijuana Regulations
Colorado entered the cannabis history books yet again yesterday, becoming the first state in the nation to officially pass regulations covering the cultivation and sale of marijuana for adult use. [click to read more...]
Dispensary Raids, Warning Letters Stoke Fears of Renewed Crackdown on Cannabis Businesses
Raids. Civil forfeiture notices. Warning letters. The headlines coming out of California and Washington State over the past few weeks conjure up memories of last spring, when the medical marijuana [click to read more...]
Fallout From CA Ruling: More Dispensary Bans, Uncertainty…and Pressure for Statewide Regs
The California Supreme Court’s landmark ruling yesterday allowing cities to outlaw cannabis dispensaries leaves the local medical marijuana industry in disarray, ensuring that a confusing patchwork of bans continues to [click to read more...]
Nominate a Speaker for the National Marijuana Business Conference & Expo 2013
MMJ Business Daily is now accepting speaker nominations for the National Marijuana Business Conference & Expo 2013, the industry’s premier annual gathering for cannabis executives, business owners and professionals. The [click to read more...]
Weekly Wrapup: Medical Cannabis Funding Climate Improving Amid New Deals, Developments
The medical marijuana industry may have finally turned a corner on the financing front, as evidenced by two important developments last week: #1. Five ancillary cannabis companies received a combined [click to read more...]
Medical Marijuana Inc. on the Defensive After Outside Criticism Sets Shareholders on Edge
One of the more prominent publicly traded cannabis companies has come under fire recently in blogs and stock message boards for its financial accounting methods and other issues, spooking investors [click to read more...]
Angel Investors to Pump $1 Million into 5 Cannabis Startups as Marijuana Investment Activity Picks Up
Five startup cannabis firms have received commitments for a combined $1 million in financing from angel investors, providing yet another indication that the investment climate is improving as marijuana gains [click to read more...]
Massachusetts Marijuana Advocates Decry ‘Nasty’ Bill That Would Severely Limit State’s MMJ Program
Massachusetts lawmakers are set to begin debating a bill that would cap the number of dispensaries in the state to just 10, set a nonrefundable application fee of at least [click to read more...]
Private Equity Firm Offering $250 Million in Cash Advances to Marijuana Businesses
By Anne Holland [Updated 5/2/13] Another crack has appeared in the wall of financial services firms refusing to do business with the cannabis industry. A financial firm based in Delaware [click to read more...]
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Aaron Smith: 5 Ways Marijuana Businesses Can Secure a Future for the Cannabis Industry
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