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Oregon ranks on the top of some pretty amazing exports and stands famous for pinot noir, hazelnuts, and even craft beer. The new year could bring them to the top of another famous list when it comes to export of marijuana. The state’s legal weed industry has faced some seriously fast falling prices since demand wasn’t able to keep up with supply, so the la...

California became the sixth state to introduce the sale of recreational marijuana along with Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, and Nevada. The market saw soaring production and sales for Colorado and Washington, as well as some amazing tax revenue during Nevada’s first 15 months, but some states are realizing they have a surplus no one is buying. Why aren&rs...

While Arkansas passed a medical marijuana bill residents were never given a clear answer as to when they could purchase medical marijuana using a medical marijuana card in the state. This has been frustrating to many residents in several states that have passed medicinal use bills, but haven’t provided a dispensary operation date and some simply haven’t ev...

The “war on weed” isn’t as strong as it used to be with the world changing its view on marijuana, hemp, and cbd. People’s voices are being heard and for the first time in history we are seeing a more pro-weed era surrounding views on medical marijuana and marijuana tax revenue than we’ve seen before. While weed might still have a bad rap ...

Louisiana's medical marijuana program is nearing the final stages of production and testing before being able to open and sell to it's first patients. The fist batch of cannabis is done with it's first test however it must go through a second round of testing before hitting dispensary shelves which officials are hoping will be no later than summer. As the ...

The need for cannabis conferences and expos is rising as the industry expands further every year. Ohio held a conference in Cleveland last month and then just announced they will also be holding The Ohio Marijuana Expo: Akron. The expo will be on March 23rd from 11am-5pm at the John S. Knight Center. The event will have a wide range of doctors, cultivators, dispensers...

Medical marijuana is relatively new in Oklahoma and even though business is booming the industry is having some problems. There are over 100 dispensaries currently operating in Oklahoma, yet the price of product is nearly double what the national average is. At around $2,200 per pound of cannabis, not everyone is able to afford it that should be. Since importing/expor...

Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program has been a huge success with 83,000 active patients in it's first year and sales hitting $132 million in cannabis products. Not only has the public taken extremely well to the new medical marijuana program but polls have shown that around 60% of voters would support a recreational cannabis program in Pennsylvania. The P...

Massachusetts has been hard at work implementing it's new recreational marijuana program as the 9th official retail store opened it's doors last week. Temescal Wellness of Massachusetts has been working with local officials to finalize it's opening after being approved receiving the "commence operations" notice from the state's Cannabis Contr...

Florida has seen a myriad of lawsuits over it's medical marijuana law which was originally passed in 2014, and now a judge had sided with the patients and dispensaries over the state when it comes to the amount of stores that a single business is allowed to operate in the state. The largest cannabis business in Florida, Trulieve, owned and operated 14 differe...

Oregon's legal cannabis market has been thriving since it's legalization, but this last year the amount of supply began to heavily exceed the state's demand. Officials estimate that the stockpile of cannabis flower is enough to supply each consumer for over 6 years. The major excess in cannabis inventory has caused the price of product in Oregon to drop fr...

Several years ago cannabis conventions might have seemed like an underground event, but now they are hosted in major countries around the world with thousands of professional attendees from dozens of countries. MJBizCon was one of the most recent, held in Las Vegas, and featured 158 speakers, 1,027 exhibitors, and 27,600 cannabis professionals. Colombia also feat...