Sector News Study Says Marijuana Almost as Addictive as Opioids Among Teenagers by Sophia Vida March 29, 2021 According to a new study published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, cannabis is almost as addictive as opioids among teenage users. The study of drugs and youth has found that teenagers' addiction rates for the plant are about the...
Sector News Those Who Smell Like Weed Can’t Enter this Detroit Restaurant by Sophia Vida March 28, 2021 Many residents of Detroit may be disappointed to learn that if they smell like marijuana, there is one restaurant that will refuse to serve them. Caucus Club Detroit said this week in a Facebook post that people who smell like ...
Sector News A Florida City Employee Gets Fired Over Legal Medical Marijuana Usage by Sophia Vida March 26, 2021 Despite getting authorization from a doctor to use medical marijuana, it was not enough to secure one man's job in Florida. A Florida city has fired an employee over legal medical marijuana use despite the employee using it leg...
Sector News Senators in North Dakota Advanced a Marijuana Legislation Bill for Unexpected Reasons by Sophia Vida March 22, 2021 A North Dakota Senate committee today advanced a bill to legalize marijuana in the state after the bill was passed by the House. The unique move from the Senate is that they did it without a recommendation on whether the legisl...
Sector News Colorado Bill Will Now Allow Children to Receive Medicinal Marijuana at School by Sophia Vida March 18, 2021 A new bill has passed in the state of Colorado that will allow schools to treat cannabis-based medication recommendations like they were prescriptions. The Colorado Senate passed a bill on March 17th in an overwhelming 33-1 vot...
Sector News Cannabis Technology Platform Dutchie Just Hit a $1.7B Valuation by Sophia Vida March 17, 2021 Cannabis technology company Dutchie has had its largest funding to date, raising $200 million in a Series C. The latest funding brings the Oregon-based company's valuation to $1.7 billion. Tiger Global led the latest round and...
Sector News Green Thumb Opens its First Cannabis Store in California by Sophia Vida March 12, 2021 Green Thumb Industries has entered the California market this month, launching its first store in the city of Pasadena on Wednesday. Shares fell nearly 5% as Wall Street digested the news but the company's CEO Ben Klover told C...
Sector News A Plane Made from Hemp and Powered by Cannabis Oil by Sophia Vida March 05, 2021 Anything is possible these days and one weed company is proving that with a plane that not only was built from hemp but is powered by cannabis oil. Canada-based marijuana company Hempearth has created the world's first plane th...
Sector News Jay-Z’s Marijuana Line Launches a National Drug Policy Awareness Campaign by Sophia Vida March 02, 2021 Monogram, the cannabis line of hip hop artist and entreprenuer Jay-Z, has launched a national drug policy awareness campaign. On Monday Monogram released several ads, which heavily criticized the war on drugs — focusing on th...
Sector News Scooter Braun Has Entered the Marijuana Business by Sophia Vida February 24, 2021 Scooter Braun, an American media entrepreneur, record executive, and investor, has just entered the cannabis space via SPAC. Braun’s Ceres Acquisition Corp. and Parallel, one of the world’s largest privately held multi-stat...
