The Business of Cannabis

Online Cannabis Production Certificate Starting for Fall 2020 at Lake Superior State University

Jul 9, 2020 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

Lake Superior State University announced an online Cannabis Production certificate beginning in fall 2020. The certificate combines courses from cannabis chemistry and cannabis business in a one year certificate with a limited lab residency. The residency will be for...

Legal Cannabis Is Almost Entirely White. Here’s How To Buy Weed From Black And Brown People (And Why It Matters)

Jul 9, 2020 | National

And like democracy, legalization is imperfect and undone—and requires consumers to make deliberate choices, like choosing to buy legal weed from Black and brown people. Whether by design or by neglect, this is difficult to do, which means the project is further away...

Gallup: Seven in Ten Americans Say That “Smoking Marijuana” Is Morally Acceptable

Jul 9, 2020 | National

Seventy percent of Americans say that it is morally permissible for adults to “smoke marijuana,” regardless of the plant’s legal status, according to nationwide polling data compiled by Gallup. That is an increase of five percentage points since...

Study: Cannabis Associated with Reduced Opioid Use, Prolonged Benefits in Pain Patients

Jul 9, 2020 | Canada

The daily use of cannabis by patients with chronic pain conditions is associated with prolonged improvements in subjects’ symptom management and overall quality of life, as well as sustained reductions in their use of opioids, according to longitudinal...

Four20Post: Michigan Cannabis Internet Streaming Video Show Focus On Security

Jul 9, 2020 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

ANN ARBOR – Welcome to the first Four20Post streaming video – aka Internet TV – show. Today we feature news from Rick Thompson and Jamie Cooper, plus interviews with Rudy Patros from Securatech and Kevin MacRitchie from Helios Security. So the theme is...