The Business of Cannabis

How The Cannabis Industry Can Do Better to Fight the Climate Crisis

Sep 18, 2019 | National

Cannabis is a pretty eco-friendly plant, all things considered: It’s versatile, it’s one of the fastest-growing commercial crops, and it may even help clean up soil that’s been contaminated by other farming practices. But despite all that, not to...

California’s Cannabis Black Market Is Insanely Larger Than Its Legal Market

Sep 16, 2019 | National

In case you haven’t noticed, marijuana is budding into a big-money business. Last year, the legal weed industry generated a whopping $10.9 billion in worldwide sales, and by the end of the next decade we could be talking about as much as $200 billion in...

Illicit Cannabis Vaping Products Could Be Behind US Deaths

Sep 16, 2019 | Feature, National

Illicit cannabis vaping products have been identified as a possible cause of hundreds of cases of severe lung illness in the US. A sixth person died on Wednesday as officials urgently try to find out what killed them. New York’s state health department...

In Era Of Legal Pot, Can Police Search Cars Based On Odor?

Sep 16, 2019 | National

Sniff and search is no longer the default for police in some of the 33 states that have legalized marijuana. Traditionally, an officer could use the merest whiff of weed to justify a warrantless vehicle search, and whatever turned up — pot, other kinds of illegal...

Scientists Unveil Weed Breathalyzer, Launching Debate Over Next Steps

Sep 12, 2019 | National

The alcohol Breathalyzer came to life slowly, over the course of decades. From the 1930s through the 1960s, scientists, lawmakers, police and the public quarreled over the veracity of the numbers spit out by the device, the appropriate legal limit for drivers and...

American Bankers Association Predicts Marijuana Banking Bill Will Pass By Next Month

Sep 11, 2019 | Feature, National

The head of the American Bankers Association (ABA) is predicting that the House of Representatives will pass legislation allowing banks to service state-legal marijuana businesses as early as this month and no later than October. In an interview on the podcast Engage...