Editorial

Mark Goldfogel with The Fourth Corner Credit Union speaks at the National Cannabis Summit. Image: WeedWorthy.com

The marijuana banking dilemma

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Denver’s Fourth Corner Credit Union launched last year as an answer to the legal marijuana industry’s inability to access financial institutions. But the Fed had other plans.
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The Pot Scientist Explains All, Via YouTube

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy
 
Trained scientist Carter Baird has created a quirky online persona, with the mission of educating the public about cannabis and the legal marijuana industry.
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The legal marijuana industry finds itself at a crossroads, as it prepares to meet in Manhattan

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Cannabis industry representatives are looking back to 2014’s successes, as they prepare for the 2016 election cycle.
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California is Finally Ready to Rein in Medical Pot

Nisa Donnelly ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
SACRAMENTO, CA -- In a late-night move and after a more than 20-year wait, California’s legislature is finally poised to regulate the state’s multi-billion-dollar medical marijuana industry.
John McKay, CSU associate professor of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, and Ph.D. student Brian Campbell research industrial hemp. Image: Colorado State University

The future of hemp is being cultivated at U.S. academic institutions

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Researchers are taking advantage of new federal measures that allow universities to conduct research on industrial hemp.
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Veterans campaign for access to legal cannabis

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Some veterans groups are calling on state and federal officials to recognize the benefits of legal marijuana as a treatment for chronic pain and PTSD.
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Making your brand: The importance of securing a cannabis industry patent

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
While the legal cannabis sector still faces federal obstacles, it nonetheless has to deal with the same challenges that other commercial sectors face; including patent and trademark issues.
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Pro-marijuana Republicans say their cause should make sense to GOP loyalists

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
Texas-based Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition (RAMP) is looking to educate fellow GOP members, as well as the party’s leadership and its grassroots activists.
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Rep. DeGette: Marijuana legalization is seeing inroads on a state, if not federal, level

Bruce Kennedy ~ WeedWorthy ~
 
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette says while cannabis reforms have progressed regionally, the campaign for marijuana legalization has a long way to go.
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The Evolution of the Legal Marijuana Industry

Bruce Kennedy  ~  WeedWorthy ~
 
Taylor West, Deputy Director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, talks about the changes currently facing the industry as it evolves and grows.

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