Posts by Shelby Pierce

13 Dec

Cannabis, Featured

Weekly Weed News Roundup: NYC Argues Over Weed Taxes, MedMen Faces Class Action Lawsuit

• December 13, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

In the cannabis world, New York lawmakers are grappling over whether to use legal weed taxes to fund subways or social justice, while D...

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12 Dec

Featured, International News

Why Weed Companies Are Embracing Blockchain

• December 12, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

"Hey, look at the stock!" It was a Thursday in late September in the Colorado offices of Leafbuyer technologies, a small tech company ...

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12 Dec

Cannabis, Featured

Weed Advisor launches comprehensive business app to support licensed producers

• December 12, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Weed Advisor, a cannabis software company that supplies business solutions and consumer insights to the industry, has developed the fir...

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12 Dec

Featured, Products

Cannabis experts on tackling weed-infused nibbles for the first time

• December 12, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

TORONTO — Gingerbread men are a seasonal staple but the spiced treats by Vanessa Labrecque this year will be special: They’ll be infuse...

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10 Dec

Featured, Marijuana News

How to Best Enjoy Coffee and Weed Together

• December 10, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Do you enjoy coffee and cannabis together? You’re not alone. Long known as the “hippie speedball,” the two are a natural pairing for wa...

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10 Dec

Featured, Law and Politics

‘Surfboards, Airplanes and Weed’

• December 10, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

HAMPTON — Everyone has a story, but Paul Ogier’s is about smuggling kilos of Mexican marijuana into the States by surfboard, Volkswagen...

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10 Dec

Featured, International News

New York Considers Legalizing, Taxing Weed to Save Its Ailing Subway System

• December 10, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

The New York City subway system has fallen on hard times. Decaying infrastructure has led to overcrowding, service cuts, fires, declini...

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10 Dec

Featured, Marijuana News

Local weed farms help out camp fire victims

• December 10, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Medford, Ore — Although times are still tough for Oregon cannabis farmers three local farms are making an effort to help victims of the...

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07 Dec

Featured, Marijuana News

Counterfeit Weed Vape Cartridges Are Flooding Black Markets

• December 7, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

As the legalization of recreational marijuana spreads across the United States, weed enthusiasts in prohibition states who rely on the ...

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07 Dec

Featured, Marijuana News

Wednesday’s Briefing: Alameda Greenlights New Weed Dispensary; Berkeley OKs Student Co-Housing Project

• December 7, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

1. The Alameda City Council greenlighted a permit for a new cannabis dispensary on Webster Street, despite objections from opponents wh...

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