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When you think of the marijuana economy, the first types of businesses that you’d expect to link with the industry are the primary players—growers, producers, dispensaries, and even testing labs. But the marijuana industry ...

The New Year is almost here, so naturally, it’s time for all kinds of predictions, including marijuana legalization predictions. Full-scale legalization (meaning marijuana is legalized for both medical and recreational use) has only come to four states ...

If you thought marijuana licensing was slow in Florida, then you’ll think the licensed marijuana economy in Maryland is moving at an absolutely glacial pace. In Maryland, medical marijuana was legalized in 2013.

Washington State has one of the most progressive licensed marijuana economies in the country. Never has that been more obvious than it was this past week when the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) heard recommendations ...

It’s not just the weather and thousands of miles that separate Florida from Colorado. Adding to the list of differences between the beach lover’s paradise and the skier’s dream is the marijuana industry.

Businesses want in on the growing marijuana industry. This fact was obvious at the Fall 2015 Marijuana Business Conference in Las Vegas last month when over 5,000 people gathered to listen to over 70 speakers and over 230 exhibitors talk about the marijuana industry.

There are approximately 8,000 businesses, products, and individuals participating in the Connecticut marijuana economy in 2015, and every one of them needs to pay for some type of license or registration to test, grow, produce, sell, or buy marijuana.

Getting any type of marijuana license is challenging, but Connecticut certainly wins the prize for one of the most rigid marijuana licensing systems. In Cannabiz’s new free report, Tracking the Connecticut Licensed Marijuana Economy:

This month, the Cannabiz Media team attended the 4th annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo in Las Vegas where we heard loud and clear that the future of the marijuana economy is practically guaranteed growth. Make that massive growth!

The Cannabiz Media team has been researching the businesses, professionals and products that make up the Cannabiz economy. These combination of these entities is creating the economic juggernaut that regulators, investors, vendors and entrepreneurs are transfixed by.