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MORE Act Passes House Vote In 'Giant Step' For Cannabis Reform, But Falls Short On Restorative Justice
Friday, December 4, 2020 - 3:28pm | 1243The House voted to pass the MORE act on Friday, a piece of legislation that could effectively decriminalize marijuana on a federal level. “The US House of Representatives—the people’s house—has taken a giant step towards science, reason and justice,” said to Benzinga...
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Benzinga Cannabis' Andrew Ward To Speak At The Mannada Cannabis Media Summit: Follow The Money In NYC
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 12:19pm | 677Leaders in Mainstream and Cannabis Media Speak to the Evolution of Billion Dollar Sector and What’s Next in 2020 NEW YORK, NY - As New York, New Jersey and Connecticut investigate how best to legalize cannabis in 2019 and millions of investment dollars investments pour into companies...
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California Marks 1 Year Of Recreational Marijuana: How Much Cannabis Was Sold?
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 4:33pm | 2133At the end of the first quarter of 2018, we spoke with GreenWave Advisors’ Matt Karnes, who said California cannabis sales could hit $2.5 billion in 2018, mostly in line with estimates out of BDS Analytics and Arcview Market Research. Now that a year has passed since recreational...
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Video: Arcview's Troy Dayton Shares Advice For Cannabis Businesses
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 5:50pm | 159“I’ve seen thousands of pitches.” In this impactful presentation, Arcview's Troy Dayton goes into the available investment tiers, best practices for raising capital, and how to interest investors by honing your winning pitch (and avoiding common presentation errors...
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Pot Stocks, ETFs, Top News And Data From The Cannabis Industry This Week
Friday, November 23, 2018 - 5:54pm | 3071The first recreational cannabis sales were made in Massachusetts this week, although only two stores — New England Treatment Access, or NETA, in Northampton and Cultivate Holdings in Leicester — were allowed to service customers. “Tuesday was another...
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5 Of The Most Influential People In The Cannabis Industry
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 3:10pm | 578Billions of dollars are flowing into cannabis businesses and investors have good reason to be excited. Thirty U.S. states now allow medical marijuana use, nine U.S. states allow recreational use, and Canada is set to legalize both adult recreational use and medical marijuana in October. Here are...
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Has The Crypto Craze Killed The Marijuana Investing Buzz?
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 - 6:17pm | 1279What do India Globalization Capital, Inc. (NYSE: IGC), Seven Stars Cloud Group Inc (NASDAQ: SSC), Riot Blockchain Inc (NASDAQ: RIOT), Marathon Patent Group Inc (NASDAQ: MARA) and NXT-ID Inc (NASDAQ: NXTD) have in common? All are beneficiaries of investor appetites for stocks with...
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Marijuana Venture Capitalist: How To Succeed As Investor And Entrepreneur
Monday, July 10, 2017 - 11:16am | 774Benzinga recently had the chance to discuss investments and investors in the cannabis industry with Micah Tapman, managing director and partner of CanopyBoulder, a seed-stage investment program and mentorship-driven business accelerator for startups in the cannabis industry. In addition to the more...
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Marijuana Venture Capitalist On CanopyBoulder's Investments: We Focus On Co's That Can Scale To Spectacular Levels Very Quickly
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 12:36pm | 1263"How does one start a business in the cannabis industry? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?" —Benzinga In a recent conversation with Benzinga, Andy Williams — co-star of MSNBC's “The Pot Barons of Colorado” and founder and CEO of Medicine Man Denver, Medicine Man...
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Meet Tradiv: A Startup Bringing Cannabis Wholesale Into The Digital Age – Before It's Too Late
Monday, June 19, 2017 - 8:54am | 984For more than 80 years now, underground weed producers have recurred to brokers to orchestrate sales, in an effort to minimize their exposure. Not being involved with the buyer seems to be the preferred strategy when conducting an illegal transaction. Interestingly, cannabis legalization has not...
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New Frontier Data CEO On Collective Effort Behind Marijuana Legalization: Coming Together Helps The Whole Cannabis Industry
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 7:09am | 358Back in November, during a conversation with Benzinga, The ArcView Group’s CEO Troy Dayton explained why he conceived cannabis legalization as a collective effort — a perspective with quite the stick. So, when chatter came through the lines regarding New Frontier Data and its multiple...
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ArcView's Troy Dayton Explains Why The Cannabis Industry Will Thrive Even If Trump Cracks Down On Marijuana
Monday, March 27, 2017 - 3:27pm | 1296Even though recent declarations from officials in the Trump administration might suggest otherwise, the U.S. cannabis industry will continue to grow at a 27 percent CAGR over the next five years, hitting sales of $22.6 billion by 2021, Arcview Market Research revealed in its most recent "The State...
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Why Education Could Be The Biggest Beneficiary Of Cannabis Legalization
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 8:56am | 714Colorado legalized recreational cannabis in 2014, but decided to keep taxes relatively low, especially compared to Washington, where effective tax rates stand around 37 percent. Despite the reduced taxes and lower population, Colorado has collected more than $369 million in taxes from cannabis in...
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How To Pick The Right Marijuana Stocks
Monday, March 13, 2017 - 12:36pm | 1526Benzinga recently spoke with investment banker and President of cannabis advisory firm Electrum Partners, Leslie Bocskor, about how CEOs in the marijuana industry could navigate market volatility in times of regulatory uncertainty. The key to succeeding in such an enterprise is that execs stick to...
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What A Federal Crackdown Could Mean For The First Public Marijuana REIT
Friday, March 3, 2017 - 9:53am | 663In November of 2016, Innovative Industrial Properties Inc (NYSE: IIPR) became the first medical marijuana properties-focused REIT to be accepted in the New York Stock Exchange. At the time, Troy Dayton, CEO of the ArcView Group, told Benzinga that it was “a huge milestone for the industry to...