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Elizabeth Warren Working to Bring Marijuana Businesses and Banks Together

BOSTON — As marijuana shops sprout in states that have legalized the drug, they face a critical stumbling block — lack of access to the kind of routine banking services other businesses take for granted. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a…

Colorado Pot Shops Reach $1 Billion in Sales During First 10 Months of 2016

In the first 10 months of 2016, Colorado marijuana shops reached a significant milestone they had barely missed in all of 2015: $1 billion in legal, regulated cannabis sales. Recreational and medical cannabis shops in America’s first 420-legal state have…

Ahead of Vote, San Jose Temporarily Bans Any Sale of Marijuana

Worried that California might legalize recreational marijuana, the state’s third-largest city by population, San Jose, voted to ban pot sales ahead of Election Day. San Jose isn’t alone in scrambling to block the possible effects of Proposition 64, which would…

Marijuana Legalization in Arizona Could Have Big Influence On Real Estate

November 2, 2016
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Arizona
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If Arizona voters pass Prop 205 legalizing recreational marijuana, it could have a big impact on the industrial and retail market around the state. Consider what has happened in Colorado, for example. The marijuana industry accounted for 35.8 percent of…

First Legal Marijuana Dispensary in Alaska May Open This Week

October 25, 2016
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Alaska, Retail
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Two Kenai Peninsula growers wasted no time delivering their product to the state's first cannabis testing facility when it opened its doors at 8 a.m. Monday in Anchorage, one of the final steps before Alaskans can legally purchase marijuana. Leif Abel, co-owner of Greatland Ganja,…