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Article by Anthony Ha, Tech Crunch We get a lot of weed-related pitches at TechCrunch, but most of them don’t come with the pedigree of Herb‘s investors. Herb is announcing today that it has raised $4.1 million in seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, with participation from Slow Ventures, Buddy Media co-founder Michael Lazerow, Bullpen Capital, Shiva Rajarama, Liquid 2 Ventures ...

Article by Robert Tankson, The Next Web When Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012, few could have predicted the scale of the growth which would bloom across the industry. Legal marijuana sales in the US and Canada are now expected to pass $20.2 billion by 2021 at a predicted annual growth rate of 25 percent, accounting for ...

Article by David Lea, Oakville Beaver via Inside Halton When it comes to the impending legalization of marijuana Oakville residents have no shortage of questions or diverging opinions. Oakville MP John Oliver and Canada’s former minister of health Jane Philpott found this out firsthand during a town hall meeting on the legalization and regulation of cannabis, which took place at ...

Article by Cathy Kearney, CBC News B.C.’s former Liberal health minister Terry Lake has a new job in the medical marijuana industry with Quebec company Hydropothecary. In an interview with Early Edition guest host Stephen Quinn, Lake said his background in science and government will be helpful to the company. “What we want to ensure is that we are socially, environmentally and ...

Article by Jacquie Miller, Ottawa Citizen A medical marijuana company in Carleton Place has received permission from Health Canada to start growing cannabis. The cultivation licence for RockGarden Medicinals Inc. was approved Aug. 25. The company operates from a building in an industrial park. There are plans to add an addition and eventually employ 30 to 40 people in the town ...

Article by Nathan Kasai and Sarah Trumble, Thirdway When President Barack Obama was sworn into office, only 13 states had legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes and none allowed its recreational use. By the time Donald Trump was inaugurated, those numbers had grown to 28 states (plus Washington, D.C.) where medical marijuana is legal and eight states (and D.C.) where ...

Article by Christopher Teague, Herb Rapper The Game threw his hat in the cannabis ring last year. He became the first celebrity to co-own a dispensary, The Reserve in Santa Ana. But he hasn’t stopped there. His personal brand, Trees by Game, is sold in California now, and yet he continues to grow into the industry. The newest cannabis revolution ...

Article by Harrison Jordan, Lift News In a decision released by the Supreme Court of British Columbia this week, a judge has found that the warrantless search of a checked luggage item from a domestic air flight traveler infringed on the individual’s Section 8 rights to unreasonable search that are found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. On March ...

Article by Scott Johnstone, Lift News If you told the average American in 1929—the height of the prohibition era—that in just half a decade jubilant boozies would be drinking celebratory champagne in restaurants and nightclubs, openly and legally for the first time since the 1920 Volstead Act, they might think you were mad. Yet half a decade later, with the act ...

Article by Amanda Siebert, The Georgia Straight Last month, the Georgia Straight broke the story about an activist-led initiative that was providing residents of the Downtown Eastside with natural alternatives to hard drugs. Yesterday (August 28), Overdose Prevention Society co-founder Sarah Blyth held a press conference at the Downtown Eastside Street Market (62 East Hastings Street) to launch the High Hopes Foundation. Huddled under a green tent and surrounded ...