Despite marijuana's lingering federal misclassification, many major American life insurance companies are not only willing to issue policies to cannabis users, but they are doing so without classifying them as smokers – a nasty stigma that is often responsible f… Read article here: High Times
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Totino’s Pizza Rolls Erects 4/20 Billboard But Pot Companies Still Prohibited from Advertising
Totino's4/20 billboard advertisement in Denver, Stock Up B4/20. Read article here: High Times
FDA Sends Warning Letters To Cannabis Companies Over False Claims
On February 9, the FDA sent out a number of warning letters to companies that make and sell products containing cannabidiol (CBD), a type of cannabinoid found in marijuana. Some of the products that the FDA tested contained no CBD in them at all. Even more troubling, many of the products claim to be treatments […]
Non-Profits Becoming More Relaxed about Accepting Donations from Pot Companies
As marijuana legalization spreads across the land and the pot-smoking stigma relaxes, cannabis-related businesses are naturally becoming more involved in the communities around them—and some are even donating money and time to local charities. Read article here: High Times
$10 Million At Stake for Cannabis Companies on ‘The Marijuana Show’
The cannabis industry meets "Shark Tank" on the reality web series, "The Marijuana Show," and the competition just got a bit more intense. Read article here: High Times
Bill That Would Allow Pot Companies to Use Banks Introduced to Congress
A marijuana banking bill was introduced to Congress this week in an effort to allow legal cannabis companies to open bank accounts. Read article here: High Times
Big Pharma Companies Were The Original Medical Pot Sellers
At the turn of the century, six percent of all manufactured drugs contained cannabis in one form or another, whether in powder, tablets, fluid extracts or tinctures. Some call that period the “Golden Age of Medical Cannabis” as marijuana products flourished wi… Read article here: High Times
Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid By Painkiller Drug Companies
As Americans continue to embrace pot—as medicine and for recreational use—opponents are turning to a set of academic researchers to claim that policymakers should avoid relaxing restrictions around marijuana. It’s too dangerous, risky, and untested, they say. Just as drug company-funded research has become incredibly controversial in recent years, forcing major medical schools and journals […]
Green Rush: Boulder-area companies see big business in ancillary marijuana trade
During the California gold rush nearly two centuries ago, the first million was made not by a miner, but by a publicist and merchant who sold picks, shovels and other supplies to eager prospectors. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
U.S. Treasury May Give Guidelines to Banks Working with Marijuana Companies
Denver PostBy Eric Gorski and David Migoya The federal government may issue guidance giving banks a “yellow light” to work with marijuana businesses, possibly in the first quarter of 2014, a high-ranking state official said Thursday. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz