CLEAR LAKE, CA – AUGUST 7, 2014: Marijuana plants grow on a residential property in a vegetable garden in Lake County on August 7, 2014 in Clear Lake, California. Lake County just passed strict growing laws recently. But, activists are putting a new initiative on the ballot to allow marijuana farming. (Photo by Gina...
Edible Weed May Be Half of the $5.4 Billion Pot Business Cannabis-infused edibles are about far more than peace, love, and higher consciousness. Peggy Noonan knows a thing or two about marijuana. She was a drug runner between Mexico and the U.S., before earning her living as a dealer in Arizona. Both stints ended...
Aurora Continues Accelerated Growth
Weed Pleez TeamFebruary 2February 2Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Commodity, Green Rush, Legalization, Medical Marijuana
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Feb. 2, 2016) – Aurora Cannabis Inc. (“Aurora” or the “Company”) (CSE:ACB)(OTCQB:ACBFF)(FRANKFURT:21P) (WKN: A1C4WM) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aurora Cannabis Enterprises Inc., a producer and distributor of medicinal cannabis pursuant to the Marihuana...
High Hopes : Legalized Pot is on the way Director of Quality Assurance Thomas Shipley prunes dry marijuana buds before they are processed for shipping at Tweed Marijuana Inc in Smith’s Falls, Ontario, April 22, 2014. By unlocking the once-obscure medical marijuana market, Canada has created a fast-growing, profitable...
There is an ugly trend that exists in society today, and it is affecting all of us. Revenue from natural resources, industry, agriculture, and more, is increasingly being leveraged away from the average Canadian and into the bank accounts of the wealthiest among us. Our legislators must now decide if they will...
Marijuana Ready Since Yesterday
Weed Pleez TeamJanuary 22January 22Canada, Dispensaries, Legal, Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Ontraio, Ottawa, Producers, Weed Business
Since it’s 2016, Canadian marijuana policy is about to change. Yesterday’s users were delinquent outsiders. They apparently acted as criminal, conspiratorial spys, students and single mothers. They were immoral, indictable and illegal sitting targets. Tomorrow they will become moral, politically correct and...
If a chief executive of a pot private equity firm is to be believed, legalising cannabis in Mexico can create a legal recreational and medical cannabis market that can bring in $2.45 billion dollars a year. Medical marijuana growers are increasingly turning to Mexico for business opportunities after a Supreme Court...
It clocked in at $70 million last fiscal year alone. Pot is a boon for tax revenues in Colorado, outpacing revenue from alcohol taxes in the fiscal year ending on June 30. Colorado collected almost $70 million in marijuana taxes during that time, nearly double the $42 million collected from alcohol taxes. The state...
In Vancouver, the bulk of water-cooler talk about marijuana legalization invariably relates to the city’s estimated 100 storefront dispensaries. The shops are hard to ignore. In some neighbourhoods, they have popped up on almost every block, and often with big pot leaves glowing green from fluorescent lights and...
Weed in the LCBO? Three issues with Wynne’s plan
Weed Pleez TeamJanuary 16January 16Canada, Commodity, Legal, Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Ontraio, Weed Business
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is the latest leader to advocate distributing marijuana through provincial liquor control boards, should Ottawa legalize the drug. It is not an entirely stupid idea. Yet it will encounter three intractable problems. First, there is a fundamental conflict between harm prevention and...
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