Recreational marijuana

How To Prepare Your Washington Medical Marijuana Business For The New Rules
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Washington’s medical marijuana operators face a seismic shift after passage of SB 5052 and HB 2136. Come July 1, 2016, the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) will be regulating the MMJ market. The

Senate panel would allow marijuana vendors to use banks
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has voted to make it easier for businesses that legally produce and sell marijuana to do business with banks and other financial services providers. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an

CANNABIS 101: WHAT ARE STRAIN SHEETS?
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Howdy folks! If you’ve poked around our new website a bit, you may have noticed our selection of of Strain Sheets – which you can search through to get more information about a variety of

Marijuana Taxation: 280E Ain’t Getting Better Anytime Soon
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017The marijuana industry is finally beginning to experience meaningful movement on the national level, slowly chipping away at federal prohibition. With the most recent Cole Memo, FinCEN guidelines, legalization in two additional states and D.C.,

Marijuana industry wrestles with pesticides, safety
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017DENVER — Microscopic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana operation faster than any police raid. And because the crop has been illegal for so long, neither growers nor scientists have any reliable research to

CANNABIS 101: GLASS PIPES AND HOW TO CLEAN THEM
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Glass pipes weren’t exactly common back 30 years ago when I was smoking lousy black market brick weed in my home state of Massachusetts. Back then, smoking usually involved a metal or wood pipe, complete

Cannabis Beverages and the FDA
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Last week, I received a call from a publicly traded, non-U.S. company that has developed a beverage containing CBD (cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid in cannabis). The company plans to produce this beverage in California and

New Vansterdam celebrates one year in recreational marijuana business
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Washington’s highest grossing pot shop is going all out to celebrate its first birthday with a weekend-long party. New Vansterdam, the second recreational marijuana store to open in Vancouver, turns one year old on Saturday.

Friday deals at Clark County pot shops: July 10
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Welcome to Friday Deals. It’s a big weekend at Vancouver’s two oldest pot shops, Main Street Marijuana and New Vansterdam, as each are celebrating their first birthdays. Main Street’s was yesterday, and Saturday is the

Congress considers opening banking options for marijuana businesses
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2017Big news out of Washington, D.C. today for the recreational marijuana industry, as Congress is mulling over a bill that would allow banks to work with legal pot businesses. Banking has been a huge challenge