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The New York Times Calls for Marijuana Reform Starting last week, The New York Times released a series of articles calling for marijuana policy reform, making it the first major media outlet to outspokenly promote legalization. The six-part series highlights the paper’s position on the...

For months now, Colorado has been reaping the economic fruits of the state's legalization of recreational marijuana use for adults. Denver, Colorado's largest city and home to the majority of the state's cannabis dispensaries, has been enjoying a variety of financial benefits,...

Editor's note on July 28, 2015: Dr. Marlon Fuller is no longer affiliated with BudgetWeed.com. BudgetWeed.com is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based cannabis industry product and service locater. The website, according to its founder and CEO Dr. Marlon Fuller is “a fusion between Yelp and...

Leslie Bocskor is one of the legal cannabis industry's high-profile personalities. Based in Las Vegas, he is founder of Electrum Partners, a group that develops expansion strategies for the marijuana market. He's also founding chairman of the Nevada Cannabis Industry Association. How did...

For all the talk about marijuana as a business, it's still a business geared towards people enjoying themselves. And the MaryJane Group (OTC: MJMJ) considers itself the cannabis industry's leading hospitality firm. The company provides Colorado-based businesses with marketing,...

Steve Berg is CFO of O.pen Vape, one of the largest brands in the legal cannabis industry. Its pen-like vaporizers, that allow cannabis users to discreetly smoke marijuana and hash oil, have been catching on due to its marketing campaign – mostly via social networking. In part one of our...

One of the companies drawing a lot of attention at at this week's Weedstock Cannabis Investor Conference in Denver is O.pen Vape. Described as one of the largest brands in the legal cannabis industry, O.pen Vape manufactures pen-like devices that vaporize hash or marijuana oil and allows the...

One of the marijuana-based companies meeting with the public at this week's Weedstock Cannabis Investor Conference in Denver is CannLabs (OTC: SDSPD). The cannabis testing service, state-licensed in Colorado, recently went public via a reserve merger and has ambitious expansion plans. (Its...

Benzinga spoke with Alan Brochstein, founder of 420 Investor, earlier this week at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver. Brochstein shared his insights about the burgeoning marijuana industry and the future of publicly-traded stocks within the sector. In the second and final part of this...

The WeedStock Conference is attracting a lot of attention in the cannabis investing space after announcing the lineup for the conference’s VIP tours. Investors across the country have told Benzinga they are preparing to adjust their investments in the legal cannabis space...

Benzinga caught up with Alan Brochstein, founder of 420 Investor, at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver on Tuesday. And we asked him his thoughts on a variety of issues. Your overall impression of the summit here in Denver? This is their first national convention, and it really says a lot...

Marijuana legalization may already be putting pressure on alcohol companies. The maker of Jack Daniels, Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-A) (NYSE: BF-B), released its annual report on Thursday, which included a laundry list of risks -- among them, recreational marijuana. “Consumer preferences and...

Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) signed a law on Monday that legalized a special strain of marijuana to treat epileptic seizures and other diseases. This policy is one of the most restrictive in the nation, but is a good first step for the state of Florida. The law will allow for patients to use...

Colorado Approved The Largest State Funded MJ Resarch Grant Ever A new grant system in Colorado is handing out up to $9 million in funding for medical marijuana research. This will be the largest state funded research product on the plant, and Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director and chief...