Business

Thiel, the billionaire most well-known for being the co-founder of PayPal (PYPL) and the secretive big data unicorn Palantir, first invested in Privateer in 2014 through his Founders Fund. Investors had worried Privateer might start to dump its Tilray stock...

As many other states with legal adult-use cannabis (and some without) have done, Maine lawmakers will soon consider a handful of bills to expunge or seal past cannabis convictions. At this stage, however, legislators are only weighing bill titles...

Recreational marijuana is now legal in Canada. And even though there is still a federal ban on pot in the United States, Washington has started to loosen some regulations on other products derived from cannabis, including hemp, following the...

Things just got more convenient for medical cannabis patients in Ontario. On Tuesday, the popular pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart launched its online retail portal for medical cannabis products. Shoppers is a national chain, but for now it will...

Online, the company bills itself as the “first Canadian retail pharmacy chain to offer a variety of cannabis products to medical cannabis patients,” but while product information is available nationally, Shoppers Drug Mart can initially only sell medical cannabis...

The 116th Congress went into session just days into 2019 and a bipartisan marijuana reform bill has already been introduced in the House. Reps. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, and Don Young, a Republican from Alaska, re-introduced the Compassionate...

As 2018 came and went, we can look back on a year that brought a lot of news, much of it historic and record-breaking, particularly about cannabis. Plenty of it was also amusing and unexpected. Here is a brief...

Legal marijuana cultivation and sales are all but a sure thing in New York in the state’s new political environment. Not only are both houses of the Legislature firmly in the hands of Democrats after their November 2018 electoral sweep,...

Despite losing their battle in court, four Sonoma County residents who sued a local cannabis cultivator over odor say they’ve ultimately won their war against Carlos Zambrano and his Green Earth business partners. By the time U.S. District Judge...

It’s safe to say 2018 was a monumental year for cannabis. Canada went legal, California tallied up recreational sales for the first time, and a new farm bill made the business of hemp legit in the eyes of the...