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NuWu Cannabis Marketplace in Las Vegas

Fortune 420: How Are Bud-Centric Businesses Faring This Year?

Rapper Petey Pablo stepped up to a makeshift stage outside NuWu Cannabis Marketplace while X Games medalist Torey Pudwill wowed a crowd of more than 200 spectators as he performed one skateboard trick after another on a halfpipe. The festivities for 420 at the tribal cannabis dispensary located less than one mile from Downtown Las […]

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cannabis investors

Cannabis Innovation, Investments And Business Soar In Canada’s Newly Legal Market

On October 17, Canada became the world’s first industrialized nation to legalize cannabis for recreational use, and only the second nation, after Uruguay, across the globe to do so. Industry experts say last month’s historic event is a forerunner of more widespread cannabis expansion to come, including in the United States, and subsequently, several other […]

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California cannabis

Illegal Dealers Are Finding Their Niche In Legal Marijuana States

Pro-cannabis advocates for years have pitched legalized marijuana as a means to the end of the black market. As the plant is taken out of the shadows and put into the hands of licensed vendors under stringent state regulations, advocates say that having trusted outlets to legally purchase cannabis will effectively eliminate the need for […]

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Massachusetts cannabis

As Nevada Thrives After One Year Of Recreational Cannabis Sales, Massachusetts Still Waits To Launch

Both Massachusetts and Nevada voted to legalize recreational sales of cannabis in November 2016. Twelve months after the first retail marijuana stores began sales in Nevada, the state’s 61 dispensaries are on pace to sell upward of $410 million in cannabis products. The Nevada tax department has taken in more than $55 million in revenue […]

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cannabis delivery

Black Market Dealers Are Scamming The Cannabis Delivery System — How Are Police, Dispensaries Fighting Back?

A service some cannabis-legal states have offered as a luxury to both medical marijuana patients and recreational buyers alike is having some unintended consequences in helping the black market flourish, according to cannabis industry business owners and government authorities. Andrew Jolley, owner of The+Source dispensaries in the Las Vegas Valley, says he and several other […]

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