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E-commerce giant Shopify is set to become a major player in Canada's...
E-commerce giant Shopify will handle online cannabis sales for the province of Ontario, Canada, in partnership with the provincially run Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp.Cannabis in Ontario will be sold...
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A mysterious syndrome in which marijuana users get violently ill is starting...
A growing number of people are reporting symptoms that align with a mysterious illness called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS.Although previously assumed to be very rare, CHS may affect a...
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A hedge fund that focuses solely on marijuana is crushing it
Navy Capital is a New York City-based hedge fund focused on strategic, long-term investments in public cannabis companies.While there are other asset managers and traders who trade cannabis companies,...
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How legal marijuana could change California's economy
Pushes for states to legalize marijuana have been growing in popularity.After a legalization referendum came into effect on January 1, 2018, California became the largest regulated cannabis market in...
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A marijuana startup is listing on a major US stock exchange for the first...
Cronos Group will become the first marijuana company to trade on a major US stock exchange.The company owns and operates businesses that are licensed to grow and sell weed in Canada, where medical...
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California's cannabis market is expected to soar to $5.1 billion — and it's...
California began the sale of recreational marijuana on January 1.The market is expected to hit $3.7 billion by the end 2018, and that number will increase to over $5 billion in 2019.Legal marijuana...
View ArticleThe racist origins of marijuana prohibition
The legal status of cannabis has been in question in the U.S. since people starting regularly smoking it in the early 1900s. The debate continues today, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions taking a...
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Nominate the rising stars of marijuana's investment scene
Business Insider is assembling its first-ever ranking of top marijuana investors.Send us your nominations. We're seeking nominations for Business Insider's first-ever list of the top investors in the...
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23 health benefits of marijuana
States around the country — 29 of them, plus Washington DC — have legalized medical marijuana. The American public largely supports the legalization of medical marijuana. At least 84% of the public...
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The highest-valued marijuana companies of 2017 reveal 2 key insights about...
US venture capital dropped $303.9 million into the cannabis industry in 2017, up from just $1 million in 2012.Most of the top venture-backed companies in the space are either biotech companies or those...
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A New York hedge fund manager moved to Canada and started the first marijuana...
Cronos Group became the first marijuana company to trade on a major US stock exchange in February.CEO Michael Gorenstein started his career on Wall Street and later worked as a hedge fund manager. He...
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The rising stars of marijuana's investment scene that everyone from Wall...
As the legal-cannabis industry continues to grow at a breakneck pace, investors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are seeing green.Venture-capital investors from around the world spent $355 million on...
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Marijuana stocks are getting hammered because of a do-or-die legalization...
Canada's marijuana legalization bill is facing a crucial vote in the Senate Thursday afternoon.If the bill fails, it would push back the timeline for legalization and force the government to re-write...
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A marijuana company that bought a California ghost town with plans to turn it...
A marijuana penny stock company bought a California ghost town with plans to turn it into a pot tourism destination.Now the company is selling Nipton, California, to another penny stock company,...
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Mitch McConnell wants to legalize hemp — here's how it's different from...
Sen. Mitch McConnell introduced a bill to legalize industrial hemp.Hemp, unlike marijuana, contains a negligible amount of THC, the compound that gets you high.Hemp has been grown for centuries and has...
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A $1 billion dollar marijuana dispensary chain is opening a store on New York...
MedMen, a company that operates a chain of marijuana dispensaries, is opening a flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.The store will be for medical marijuana customers at first, but a...
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Pharmaceutical giants are sidestepping US marijuana restrictions to research...
Federal policies restricting marijuana research have made it difficult to study marijuana and produce cannabis-based drugs — but that isn't stopping pharmaceutical companies from doing it.Some are...
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Trump wants to beef up border security to 'knock the hell out of the drug...
President Donald Trump has made border security a key initiative for his administration.He has pushed for a additional barriers on the US-Mexico border and for additional enforcement along the...
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Legal marijuana could soon be a bigger market than soda
Legal marijuana is set to hit $75 billion in sales by 2030, according to a note from analysts at the investment bank Cowen.Weed is already putting pressure on alcohol sales. In states that have...
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HP is jumping into the legal marijuana industry with a technology that could...
HP will start making registers for stores where marijuana is sold. It's the first major tech company to produce hardware for the marijuana industry.The computer industry pioneer is partnering with the...
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