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Can you get life insurance if you vape? The answer is complicated.
Vaping is still a relatively new practice, so life insurance companies haven't yet standardized the way they treat vape users — as smokers, non-smokers, or something else entirely.According to the life...
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Cannabis-tech startup Green Bits just replaced its longtime CEO with a...
The cannabis-tech startup Green Bits is bringing in Barry Saik, a tech-industry veteran, as its new CEO. He'll be taking over from cofounder and longtime CEO Ben Curren.Green Bits is a Silicon...
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2019 was the year the cannabis bubble burst. We talked to more than a dozen...
The cannabis bubble, propped up by a thriving market for reverse takeovers on the Canadian Securities Exchange, has burst. Business Insider spoke with over a dozen top CEOs and execs about the...
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5 top cannabis VCs told us where they plan to place their bets, from scooping...
We asked 5 of the top investors at cannabis-focused funds about where they're looking to invest in 2020.They discussed why they're still bullish on the industry despite a tough year. Some deemed it a...
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Investors are placing huge bets on marijuana as more states legalize THC....
Cannabis startups have raised closed to $2 billion of venture capital cash in 2019, up from just $17 million in 2013.As part of a broader effort to track where money is flowing in the cannabis industry...
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In 2018, over 600,000 people in the US were charged with possessing marijuana.Despite making up only about 31% of the population, blacks and Latinos accounted for nearly half of all weed arrests,...
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Cannabis startup founders share 4 critical lessons they learned while raising...
Cannabis startups— both cannabis-tech and 'plant-touching' — have to get creative to raise money since THC is federally illegal in the US.Most large venture funds still won't touch the industry, so...
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12 health revelations, innovations, and movements that changed how we live in...
The 2010s involved plenty of changes that affected the way we view and pursue nutrition, exercise, sexual health, lung health, and more — for better or worse. Gwyneth Paltrow's wellness brand Goop...
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Legal marijuana goes on sale tomorrow in Illinois. Here are all the states...
Legal marijuana sales begin in Illinois on January 1, 2020. Marijuana is legal in 11 states for adults over the age of 21, and legal for medical use in 33 states. Visit BI Prime for more stories, and...
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States with legal medical marijuana have seen a drop in workplace deaths
Recreational marijuana is now legal in Illinois as of January 1, 2020.A recent study suggests that states that adopt medical marijuana laws see a decline in workplace fatalities among young adult...
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Wayland Group just revealed it's shedding workers as the Canadian cannabis...
Wayland Group, an Ontario-based cannabis company, said it had 26 departures in December across multiple departments. The company revealed the exits in its monthly progress report released on January...
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Respira raised over $2 million to disrupt the embattled vape industry with a...
Respira has raised $2.1 million to develop a heat-free vaporizer for cannabis and nicotine. The device could also have potential pharmaceutical applications, the company says.Traditional vaporizers for...
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CULTIVATED: Disrupting the vape industry, layoffs at Wayland Group, and more.
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Sen. Cory Booker drops out of the 2020 presidential race less than a month...
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race. Booker had struggled to make a dent in the polls and did not qualify for Tuesday's Democratic presidential...
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Here are the top 14 venture-capital firms making deals in the cannabis...
Business Insider identified the top venture-capital firms making deals in the cannabis industry based on how many investments they made in 2019.The firms told us they were looking to invest in areas...
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Pot-grower Aphria tanks after slashing full-year profit forecasts
Pot-grower Aphria posted fiscal second-quarter revenue figures Tuesday that fell below analysts' lowest expectation and profits that landed in-line with estimates.The Canadian firm cut its full-year...
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Here are the top venture-capital firms in the cannabis industry, and where...
Business Insider identified the top venture-capital firms making deals in the cannabis industry based on how many investments they made in 2019.This is the second edition of our list of the top VC...
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VC investing in cannabis surged above $2 billion in 2019, but a year-end...
Business Insider looked at how much money VCs have put into cannabis, analyzing when investments surged, when they declined, and why.Though investments declined steeply in the second half of 2019, the...
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