Category: Business and Tech

Some Big Weed companies are so “eager to shake off the image of being high-end drug dealers,” as the New York Times recently put it, that their CEOs won’t even cop to sampling their own products. But others in the industry—including six CEOs who spoke to Quartz at Work—will gladly tell you how and why they consume cannabis products, sometimes at the office, perhaps multiple times per day.

Canopy Growth Corp. (WEED.TO)(CGC) is acquiring a majority stake in BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. in a move to enter the cannabis-infused sports drink market.

Company will do due diligence on whether sellers adhere to CBD regulations, but says merchants ‘are responsible for their own compliance’

The readers digest approach to CBD!

Martha Stewart says a CBD line of products she is developing with Canopy Growth will likely hit the market in the middle of next year.

Following the general public debut, Nelson mentioned Wikileaf will broaden operations within the U.S, together with the opening of satellite tv for pc places of work in “areas with high dispensary densities” like Southern California, in addition to rising markets like Oklahoma. Nelson went on to say that the corporate may even be including new product pages within the coming months, permitting customers to search out their favourite hashish merchandise in close by dispensaries.

The tech thing and weed is really taking off now….

This somehow saddens us… Cannabis King: Boris Jordan, Chairman Of Curaleaf, Becomes The Only Pot Billionaire

The Jerusalem Post reports….Europe is expected to become a global leader in medical cannabis worth trillions of euros, yet regulatory barriers are preventing Israeli companies full success.

The discovery of a nitrogen well prompted a U.K oil and gas company to diversify into hemp and it is now committing all its spare cash to the fast-growing global CBD market. Reports CBD Testers site

Giving the weed industry access to sophisticated financing would turn smaller businesses into big corporations. writes Christopher Caldwell.

“Legal weed here is going to happen, but probably not for another year,” said Pedro Gastelum, the 20-something co-founder of Tijuana High Club, the city’s first head shop aimed at savvy cannabis users. Gastelum is young, articulate, and possesses an entrepreneurial spirit that falls somewhere between the hip Los Angeles streetwear aesthetic and Tijuana’s street smarts. “It’s going to start in Mexico City, and then it’s coming to all of Baja California, not just Tijuana,” he said. We’re just trying to stay one step ahead.”