The Upstate New York Poison Center has seen a sharp increase – “a drastic change” – in the number of
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Manufacturing Addiction: A Swedish tobacco company is selling CBD laced with nicotine
Good news for all the CBD consumers who’ve been dying to become nicotine addicts: you no longer have to waste
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Boyz N the Hood v. John Boehner: For some cannabis entrepreneurs the concern is no longer the cops – it’s the corporations
For Kobie Evans and Kevin Hart, co-owners of Pure Oasis, Boston’s first recreational cannabis shop and the state’s first Black-owned
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Of Outlaws & Oligarchs: The cannabis space is evolving into both an underground economy and one dominated by big business – marginalizing the mom & pop store in the process
California is the cannabis bread basket of the world yet 8 in 10 cannabis businesses operate in the black market,
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Separate and Unequal: When the US cannabis market goes fully legal it will usher in Big Industry who will crush minority owned small business, hurting people’s health in the process
As the legal walls of cannabis prohibition come tumbling down in the US – it’s no longer if, but when
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The New Drug War: The theater may have shifted from the street to the boardroom but make no mistake about it – there will be casualties
At first glance you wouldn’t think this would be a problem for anyone: Illinois has proposed a law to allow
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The Rules of the Game: The cannabis industry is busy crafting the rules they will live by. The question is whether those rules will benefit the few or the many
The idea that the “market knows best” is about on par with the idea that “Father Knows Best.” “Few ideas
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It’s Black History Month. And the looming question in the rapidly evolving cannabis industry is whether Blacks will have a seat at the table
Today, less than 4% of cannabis business owners are Black and that number is likely to become even smaller as
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Would you like some nicotine with your CBD? We knew Big Tobacco was moving into the cannabis space. What we didn’t know is they can produce a cannabis cigarette laced with nicotine
What is the deadliest invention in the history of human civilization? The cigarette. In 2018, the tobacco giant Altria, which
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Cannabis Capitalism: Level playing field or land of the giants?
We’re about to find out what kind of creatures we are. Just as the the growth of a child into
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