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By Natan Ponieman and Javier Hasse Latin America’s cannabis market is poised to become a central piece in the development of a legal global cannabis industry. With land and weather perfectly fit for cannabis cultivation, relatively low labor costs, and a strategic location for exports into...

Can quality be affordable? The question that comes up in all kinds of industries, including cannabis. It seems that cannabis users can be divided into two main groups – those who don’t even think about buying it from legal sources because they can’t afford it, and those who don...

From FreightWaves LIVE: Chicago's keynote – Journalist, Founding Anchor of BNN & Best-Selling Author of Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius & Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison Howard Green is one of the founders and builders of Business News Network in Canada, where he anchored...

Loup Ventures founder Gene Munster recently joined PreMarket Prep co-host Joel Elconin for the sixth episode of the "Frontier Tech With Gene Munster" podcast. The two talked about the latest news related to several popular tech stocks, including Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), Apple Inc. (...

Like many states, Maryland has a medical cannabis market that shows growth, potential and significant pain points. Maryland began revising its cannabis laws in 2012 when state lawmakers approved a medical marketplace. Two years later, the possession of 10 grams or less was decriminalized. In...

The market value of the U.S. cannabis testing sector is set to increase to $2 billion by 2025, according to a July report from Global Market Insights. Cannabis testing regulations vary state by state and potentially affect all aspects of the supply chain.  MSOs must factor in each...

By Javier Hasse and Natan Ponieman. Before entering the cannabis industry, Dia Simms spent 14 years working side-by-side with rapper and entrepreneur Sean Combs, better known as Diddy or Puff Daddy. She eventually became president of Combs Enterprises, self defined as “a portfolio of...

By Javier Hasse and Natan Ponieman. Benzinga recently had a conversation with Elizabeth Ashford, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at California-based cannabis delivery company Eaze. The executive shared some of her insights and projections for the future of the industry in the Golden...

At the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ceremony in New York City on Nov. 19, Steve Sanders, executive vice president of marketing and product development at Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: IBKR), sat down with Benzinga to talk about the brokerage's next steps...

Medical cannabis came to New Jersey on the final day of then-Gov. Jon Corzine's term in 2010. Corzine's signature on medical marijuana legislation allowed nearly a dozen conditions to be approved for medical cannabis consumption while prohibiting home cultivation. Corzine's successor,...

Six of the 18 states that have legalized legalize adult use or medicinal cannabis since 2016 have made diversity measures part of their program.  Data released in August 2019 by Marijuana Business Daily found that states are warming to social equity measures in cannabis. With less than half of...

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By Javier Hasse and Natan Ponieman. Platinum is a maker of cannabis products including vapes, jarred flower, pre-rolls and edibles. Cody Sadler, CEO and co-founder of Platinum, recently spoke with Benzinga about his company. The CEO opened the conversation mentioning the brand’s customer-...

David Skul and Jason Giles, executives at emerging market intelligence platform Zefyr, recently spoke with Benzinga regarding the firm’s prospects. Founded in 2017, the Colorado-based cannabis-focused data company was recently acquired by New Frontier Data, an information solution for the...

Last month, Gary Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council and former president and COO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS), joined Hoyos Integrity, a secure mobile telecommunications company focused on the scaling of secure payment solutions.  The company aims to reshape...