cannabis stocks

Amid strong support for legalization among Americans and high consumer demand, more U.S. cannabis companies are feeling confident enough to list on public exchanges. In turn, investors also see growth opportunities in the space despite a recent sell-off.  After one cannabis company, Dixie...

Earlier this week, Congress passed the final version of the 2018 Farm Bill, which stipulates the legalization of industrial hemp. Now all that’s missing is President Donald Trump’s signature, and it's expected in the next few days. “This week's passage of the 2018...

The 2018 Farm Bill will be filed next week and includes a provision to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp, which, among many other things, can be used to produce CBD. We’ll be keeping a close eye on developments in this realm. In other political news, Utah’s legislature...

This week, New Jersey took a big step toward the legalization of recreational marijuana, after a joint Assembly and Senate committee voted on a bill that would legalize and tax the sale of weed. Meanwhile, South Korea legalized medical cannabis, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced...

The 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...

The cannabis industry coalesced in Las Vegas this week for MJBizCon. The largest cannabis business event in the world drew a crowd of about 25,000 people to Sin City this year, according to Benzinga's sources.  Acreage Holdings, one of the largest marijuana companies in the U.S.,...

A version of this post was originally published on The Fresh Toast. You’ve probably read this a thousand times this year already: cannabis is going mainstream by the minute. In the past couple of months, we’ve seen Jim Cramer weigh in on pot stocks on "Mad Money," witnessed...

What a week. The midterms brought legal recreational cannabis in Michigan and legal medical marijuana in Utah and Missouri. “It was a good week for the cannabis industry. Michigan became the tenth state to legalize adult use cannabis and we added two more states to the legal medical marijuana...

Big news on the international plane this week, with Mexico’s Supreme Court ruling an absolute ban on the adult use of cannabis is unconstitutional and the UK allowing doctors to legally prescribe cannabis products for a number of conditions like epilepsy, MS and chemotherapy-induced...

As the cannabis industry keeps pushing forward, more companies are moving to list their stock on a major U.S. exchange like the NYSE or NASDAQ. On Friday, Canadian medical marijuana producer Aphria Inc (NYSE: APHA) debuted on the NYSE. Prior to that, Aphria's stock had been listed on the...