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Top Strike Resources Partners With Vertical Companies, Appoints Smoke Wallin To Board
Monday, July 22, 2019 - 9:20am | 283Merchant capital firm focused on cannabis initiatives, Top Strike Resources Corp., doing business as Vencanna Ventures Inc. (CSE: VENI), reported Monday it partnered with Vertical Companies, a medical and adult-use cannabis company. Vencanna will provide Vertical with $4 million loan for usual...
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Why Isn't Big Pharma More Active In Cannabis?
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 7:50am | 556The cannabis space has seen a few large-scale deals in the medical space, but this begs the question: why isn't big pharma much more involved in the industry? Megan Henderson, executive producer of The GrowthOp, moderated a panel of experts Wednesday at the Benzinga Capital Cannabis...
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Preparing For Toronto: Discussing The Cannabis Pharmaceutical Market
Friday, April 12, 2019 - 3:03pm | 440It's that time again. The Benzinga Events team is busy planning for the third Cannabis Capital Conference back in one of our favorite spots and the heart of the cannabis industry—Toronto. The cannabis industry is constantly developing, from market expansions and stock volatility to recent...
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Opinion | Common Ground: Political Unity Around Federal Cannabis Prohibition Relief
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 1:30pm | 1582By J Smoke Wallin In 1925, five years into Prohibition, journalist H. L. Mencken wrote, “There is not less drunkenness in the Republic but more. Not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not...