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

Sessions Takes A Hard Line On Cannabis
Sessions Takes A Hard Line On Cannabis
January 05, 2018  |  Legal

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has sent a directive to U.S. attorneys, taking back Obama-era directives that relaxed enforcement of federal pot laws on states in...

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Maryland Community Bank Wades Into Cannabis Market
Maryland Community Bank Wades Into Cannabis Market
January 04, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Providing financial services to legal marijuana businesses in the U.S. has proven a challenging, complicated venture for the nation’s banks. As more financial institutions (FIs)...

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Today In Data: Kill The Check, CA’s Cannabis Boom And Smart Speakers’ Proliferation
Today In Data: Kill The Check, CA’s Cannabis Boom And Smart Speakers’ Proliferation
January 03, 2018  |  Today In Data

Today in PYMNTS’ data, billions of checks are still being issued annually in the U.S. (despite recipients’ growing dissatisfaction with them), California’s economy may see...

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Compliance, Cash And Cannabis’ Complicated California Future
Compliance, Cash And Cannabis’ Complicated California Future
January 03, 2018  |  Retail

New Year’s Day 2018 was met by biting cold temperatures across most of the U.S., a Mariah Carey comeback in Times Square and the state...

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CanPay: Solving Pot’s Payments Problem
CanPay: Solving Pot’s Payments Problem
December 20, 2017  |  Matchmakers

  Pot has a payments problem. Cannabis’ status as a schedule-one narcotic means the federally chartered banks, the card networks and the traditional payments ecosystem have...

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Walmart Pulls Cannabis Christmas Tree From Website
Walmart Pulls Cannabis Christmas Tree From Website
December 18, 2017  |  Retail

Walmart was briefly helping shoppers deck the halls in an rather unusual way this year — with a $250 “weed leaf” artificial Christmas tree. Yes, for...

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Today In Data: Corporate Travel Spend, UK Cash Is King And Cannabis’ Growth
Today In Data: Corporate Travel Spend, UK Cash Is King And Cannabis’ Growth
November 29, 2017  |  Today In Data

When it comes to payments and technology innovations, some industries are seeing massive growth, and others are seeing declines. Sectors like corporate travel, cannabis and...

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Building A More Compliant Cannabis Industry With The Blockchain
Building A More Compliant Cannabis Industry With The Blockchain
November 29, 2017  |  Retail

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail...

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Corona’s Parent Company Gets Into Pot
Corona’s Parent Company Gets Into Pot
October 31, 2017  |  Investments

Constellation Brands, a beer distributor that owns Corona, announced that it has signed an agreement to buy an almost 10 percent stake in Canopy Growth...

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