Economy / Business

For Mexican cartels, marijuana is still gold

dallasnews.com — CORRE COYOTE, Mexico – Times are good for the dope growers of the western Sierra Madre mountains. The army eradication squads that once hacked at the illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by the drug war that's raging elsewhere in Mexico. The military's retreat has delighted farmers who are sowing and reaping marijuana. Cannabis cultivation i More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 8 hr 4 min ago

The New Marijuana Middle Class

huffingtonpost.com — Marijuana brings an estimated $14 billion a year to California. That number is enough to inspire awe, drool even, when thinking of the slice that could be devoured by the state's hungry coffers. Add to that number the money saved on enforcing prohibition. In this context, Prop 19, California's initiative to tax and regulate marijuana for recreation More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 1 day ago

Google Accepts Pot Ads Like The Ones Facebook Rejected

huffingtonpost.com — Google has accepted pro-pot-legalization ads similar to those rejected by Facebook, a spokesman for the Just Say Now coalition told HuffPost Wednesday, providing a confirmation email from a Google representative. Google also accepted ads attacking Facebook for blocking the campaign's web ads. [UPDATE: Google will allow the ads to reference to contr More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 12 days ago

Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign

huffingtonpost.com — For a typical college student, if it didn't happen on Facebook, it didn't happen. That gives the social networking behemoth an out-sized influence on the confines of political debate, if that debate falls outside what Facebook deems acceptable discourse. For a typical college student, if it didn't happen on Facebook, it didn't happen. That gives the social networking behemoth an out-sized influence on the confines of political debate, if that debate falls outside what Facebook deems acceptable discourse. More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 12 days ago

Facebook bans use of marijuana leaf in ad

articles.latimes.com — Pot leaves are easy to find on Facebook pages. But the nation's largest social-networking site has decided they cannot appear in advertisements, prohibiting them as "illegal content." The policy was disclosed Tuesday after a national campaign promoting legalization accused Facebook of censoring political speech. The Just Say Now campaign said the p More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 12 days ago

Walnut Creek builders see green in household marijuana rooms

blogs.sacbee.com — The glossy brochure for the Good Green Builders Construction brims with photographs of home growing rooms featuring tomatoes, bell peppers and lettuce in a spectrum of leafy colors. "We love what we do. And we are discreet," says the leaflet for the Walnut Creek firm founded by Brett McCormick, 25, and William McKenzie, 26, two agribusiness graduat More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 14 days ago

Will this be Hempfest's last hurrah?

blog.seattlepi.com — Hempfest organizers are making a do-or-die push to keep the 19-year-old event alive. They say money is running out, and unless something changes, this could be Hempfest's last year. The event's chief organizer, Vivian McPeak, said high operational costs outpaced revenue by leaps and bounds last year. Hempfest lost $50,000 in 2009, a deficit it has More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 17 days ago

No marijuana allowed at Montana hempfest

bozemandailychronicle.com — Caregiver Lenny Brown brought medical marijuana to show potential patients at the Bozeman Hempfest at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds Saturday, but he was asked to remove it from the premises. "I wouldn't have come here if I knew I couldn't display my medicine," Brown said. "All I heard was that they were going to shut us down - that we needed to p More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 18 days ago

Mapping The Legal Marijuana Industry

forbes.com — If a November proposition passes, plenty of moneymakers will want in. OAKLAND, CALIF. -- Welcome to Oaksterdam, California's newest, least orthodox tourist attraction. Welcome, possibly, to the future of a multibillion-dollar business around legal marijuana. Spread over an eight-block area of formerly disused downtown Oakland, the self-described Oa More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 18 days ago

Dutch Company Enters Oakland Pot Scene

baycitizen.org — On a recent afternoon in Kensington, Michael Sautman was talking on one phone with a reporter when another phone started ringing with a call from Israel, where his company is competing to grow medical marijuana on behalf of the government. Sautman is the American CEO of Bedrocan International, one of the first transnational marijuana enterprises, a More... (Economy / Business)

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Devin Calloway submitted 18 days ago