Cannabis

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant used primarily for medical or recreational purposes.

(source: en.wikipedia.org)

Treasury Sec. Says Pot Companies Should Be Banked  
Treasury Sec. Says Pot Companies Should Be Banked  
February 07, 2018  |  Bank Regulation

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin appeared to support pot companies storing their money in banks, testifying that the Treasury doesn’t want the marijuana...

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Today In Data: Blockchain Investments, Cannabis Marketplaces And EDIs’ Decline
Today In Data: Blockchain Investments, Cannabis Marketplaces And EDIs’ Decline
January 31, 2018  |  Today In Data

Today in PYMNTS’ data, investors are still backing blockchain technology despite an ongoing wave of skepticism, growing cannabis use is resulting in the need for...

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Building A Delivery Market For Cannabis … Carefully
Building A Delivery Market For Cannabis … Carefully
January 31, 2018  |  Retail

With varying shades of marijuana legality online in nearly 50 percent of all states and 61 percent of polled voters expressing support for full legalization,...

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Congress Receives Petition To Make Cannabis Banking Legal
Congress Receives Petition To Make Cannabis Banking Legal
January 17, 2018  |  Legal

Congress has a new petition to review: This one is from a bipartisan group of 18 attorneys general from states that have legalized recreational and...

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QR Codes Sizzle, Smart Parts Fizzle And Facebook Bows Out Of AI Assistants
QR Codes Sizzle, Smart Parts Fizzle And Facebook Bows Out Of AI Assistants
January 12, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Facebook’s M Fizzles While most of the week was dedicated to the cohort of players at The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) battling it out on...

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Colorado Smokes Up $120M In Cannabis Sales In November
Colorado Smokes Up $120M In Cannabis Sales In November
January 12, 2018  |  Regulation

Consumer interest in cannabis continues to rise in Colorado, where marijuana shops saw an increase of nearly 10 percent in sales between 2016 and 2017,...

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Treasury Blindsided By DOJ’s About-Face On Cannabis
Treasury Blindsided By DOJ’s About-Face On Cannabis
January 11, 2018  |  Regulation

When the Justice Department abruptly announced its revocation of the Cole Memo — the set of federal guidelines that allowed the legal marijuana industry to...

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Have Cannabis’ Banking Plans Gone Up In Smoke?
Have Cannabis’ Banking Plans Gone Up In Smoke?
January 09, 2018  |  Alternative Finances

Financial services for the cannabis industry have been a complicated issue for the 20 years that there has been a legal – or at least quasi-legal –...

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Data Dive: The Yes, No, Gotcha! Edition
Data Dive: The Yes, No, Gotcha! Edition
January 08, 2018  |  Data Dive

Holiday vacations are officially over, and the payments and commerce news cycle is back in high gear. Bitcoin turned nine, and was celebrated by seeing its price per...

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