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Cannabis Benchmarks Cultivates Price Transparency for Market Participants

Cannabis Benchmarks Cultivates Price Transparency for Market Participants

Buyers and sellers in the legal cannabis industry may think they have a handle on market pricing, but legalized cannabis is still a fledgling industry with supply and demand in constant flux.

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‘Weed 3’ Showcases Compassion Grounded in Logic

Mainstream media coverage of marijuana continues to enhance the dialogue on marijuana’s legitimacy as medicine. With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent being one of the most respected celebrity doctors on television, he is well positioned to share serious discussion on medical marijuana with a larger audience.

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CannaInsider Pictures 10 Ways of Funding and Marijuana Investor Summit

The idea of funding a startup can seem daunting regardless of the field a company chooses to enter. Emerging entrepreneurs in the legal marijuana industry can improve their prospects by becoming well versed in their funding options before pursuing a particular path to capital.

CannaPitch

CannaPitch Setting Stage for Marijuana Entrepreneurs and Investors

The pitch meeting is perhaps one of the most intriguing environments for private investments to take place because it forces creators to face kings of capital, where an array of interpersonal interactions can make or break a deal.

Pot Barons Meeting

Go Beyond TV and Meet Pot Barons at Marijuana Investor Summit

Because “Pot Barons of Colorado” is essential viewing for any entrepreneur or investor aspiring to enter the legal marijuana business, Marijuana Investor Summit has announced that is bringing together the cast of the series for an exclusive afternoon lunch on April 21, 2015.

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Building and Maintaining the Buzz at Marijuana Investor Summit

Entrepreneurs and investors are ready to profit from the legal marijuana industry, but there is one crucial element that can enhance the ability to create and sustain a venture’s buzz: communication.

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Anticipation Grows for Marijuana Investor Summit

Marijuana is proving to be contemporary culture’s most exciting frontier market. With a growing number of opportunities to enter the legal marijuana industry, the best minds have been seeking a vehicle to drive innovation and investment education.

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4Front and MJardin’s Strategic Alliance Offers Cohesive Solution for Industry

In an exclusive interview with MJINews, 4Front Advisors and MJardin revealed that they are entering into a strategic alliance to bring MJardin’s turnkey cultivation model to 4Front’s clients.

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Heliospectra Offers Solutions Beyond Lighting

With the advent of legal medical and recreational marijuana, growers and their backers are looking to optimize output in an attempt to capture market share. Within this, there also is an effort to solve the marijuana industry’s environmental issues.

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Preparing for CannaPitch Denver 2015

Ideas for the emerging marijuana industry can come together anywhere, but the environment at Marijuana Investor Summit, co-produced by David Friedman and Randy Shipley, will foster conversations where innovation and investment meet.

South Carolina Legislation

South Carolina Continues in Name of Medical Marijuana

The first regular session of the 121st South Carolina General Assembly will convene on Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at which point, the South Carolina Medical Marijuana Study Committee has until March 15, 2015, to provide a report to the General Assembly.

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Presenting the 2014 MJINews Power Celebrities

MJINews is proud to present its 2014 MJINews Power Celebrities. We have decided to focus on 15 celebrities that are playing a crucial role in developing marijuana’s image, industry and legalization.

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Presenting the 2014 MJINews Power Activists

Progress is not given, it is earned. The 2014 MJINews Power Activists know this all too well. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws began the organized drug law reform movement in 1970, inspiring activists across the nation.

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Medical Marijuana Gets a Chance and a Hearing in South Carolina

Recent political developments show that South Carolina is giving progress a chance in the form of laws regarding industrial hemp and medical marijuana. On June 2, Gov. Nikki Haley signed bills legalizing industrial hemp and CBD oil.

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Illinois Gets Over $5M from MMJ Applicants

Before close of business on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, state officials in Illinois announced the number of grower and dispensary applications it received for its Medical Cannabis Pilot Program. According to the Associated Press, “more than 350 groups have applied to be the first to legally grow or sell medical marijuana in Illinois.”

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MJ Freeway

MJ Freeway has product suites targeted at three distinct sectors of the MMJ industry. “Grow Tracker” is for producers and cultivators, “Mix Tracker” is geared towards processors and infused product manufacturers, and “Gram Tracker” is targeted towards collectives, clubs, retailers, and dispensaries.

Cannatest

Cannatest

Cannatest is a Seattle-based laboratory that provides potency testing for THC, THCA, CBD, CBDA, CBG, CBC and THCV, and safety screening for mold and mildew on cannabis and cannabis-related products by using thin layer chromatography.

Apeks

Apeks SuperCritical

Apeks Supercritical builds fully automated subcritical and supercritical botanical oil extraction systems that use liquid CO2 as a solvent. CO2 is a clean, inert, nontoxic solvent, and it is nonflammable. Systems are built to extract any botanical material, but 90 percent of Apeks’ business comes from the cannabis industry.

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ArcView Offers Investment Nuggets at CCC

On Saturday, June 7, 2014, The ArcView Group gave a two-hour presentation on cannabis business at the Chicago Cannabis Conference. It was an opportunity for attendees to get a medical marijuana education in law, investment and startups. In the first hour, Troy Dayton, CEO of The ArcView Group, gave a detailed presentation on the cannabis industry.

Medicine Men

Medicine Men

Medicine Men LLC is applying for medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation licenses in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. They have secured dispensary and cultivation locations. They are seeking investors to help with startup and filing fees related to the dispensary and cultivation applications.

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Chicago Cannabis Conference Educates

In the midst of Navy Pier’s seasonal tourist traffic, the Chicago Cannabis Conference brought together local, regional and out-of-state minds on a mission to join in a pivotal event for the state of Illinois. The state’s Medical Cannabis Pilot Program was one of the conference’s hot topics on June 7 and 8, 2014. As the host, My Compassion, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit medical cannabis organization, focused the event on medical marijuana education and information.

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Anonymous Bags

Anonymous Bags offers customers a safe and secure portable storage solution for medicines of all kinds. Each product is child-resistant, lockable and made with materials that are safe for holding food and medicine. Anonymous Bags is an answer to Colorado’s packaging requirements.

GrowLife

GrowLife Smoking, Industry in Flames?

When the SEC temporarily suspended the trading of GrowLife securities (OTCMKTS: PHOT) on April 10, it sounded an official fire alarm. Maybe GrowLife was simply sending smoke signals, but the SEC’s suspension was lifted yesterday and it appears many investors feared the company was in flames. Forbes reported stocks plummeting 60 percent before lunchtime and by close of trading, the stocks were down 58.17 percent.


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