Mike DiPaola

Ben Stein Is an Anti-Pot Idiot

June 4, 2015 No Comments

Has-been actor and present-day irritant Ben Stein has been an asshole for a long time. He has called Barack Obama “the most racist president there

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Ben Stein Is an Anti-Pot Idiot

June 4, 2015 No Comments

Has-been actor and present-day irritant Ben Stein has been an asshole for a long time. He has called Barack Obama “the most racist president there has ever been in America.” He was spectacularly, repeatedly wrong about the lead-up to the recession in 2008. He wrote, and starred in, an anti-evolution documentary that was so brainless the American Association for the

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Cannabusiness: Ohio Businesses Are Ahead of Lawmakers in Green Economy

May 20, 2015 1 Comment

Laws regulating marijuana are changing dramatically and quickly all over the U.S. and, with a few ignoble exceptions (thanks for nothing, North Carolina), the changes have been for the better. Four states, plus the District of Columbia, have now eased up on recreational-use laws, and more states are lining up to follow, with Ohio likely to be the next to

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Cannabusiness: How Crowdfunding Can Help Ganjapreneurs

May 13, 2015 No Comments

Launching a business from scratch is tough, and the hardest part can be getting the cash together to make it happen. A number of ganjapreneurs have opted to crowdfund their projects, with some finding more success than others. “In general, I don’t like working with banks,” said Jake Wade, a sustainable clothing maker in California. “The majority of them fundamentally

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Cannabusiness: Will Marketers Reach Out to Pot-Loving Baby Boomers?

May 7, 2015 No Comments

Baby Boomers—those born between the end of World War II and 1964—like their weed. Cannabis use among the age group is both prodigious and rising, faster than in any other demographic. According to a recent study by the research firm IBISWorld, by the end of this year more than 110.9 Americans over 50 years old will partake of the herb;

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Cannabusiness: Opportunities Knock As Jamaica Eases Weed Laws

March 19, 2015 No Comments

When Jamaica’s House of Representatives passed an amendment last month to its Dangerous Drugs Act, thereby decriminalizing small amounts of weed, the ink was barely dry on the legislation before United Cannabis was announcing a partnership with Jamaica’s Cannabinoid Research & Development (CRD) and Scientific Research Council, with collaboration with the University of the West Indies (UWI). Under the agreement,

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New Cannabis Photo Service Dispenses with the Stereotypes

March 17, 2015 No Comments

Some of the best ideas happen in the shower. That’s where L.A. photography guru Ophelia Chong came up with Stock Pot Images, a catalog of marijuana imagery that goes beyond the typical weed pics and brings in a decidedly human element. “What I want to do is present the real face of cannabis,” says Chong. “Right now all you have

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Cannabusiness: Weed Workers Get Connected in Colorado

March 13, 2015 No Comments

Welcome to the party, Pueblo, Colorado. The city now has its first job-placement service that focuses exclusively on cannabusiness. Apparently it was sorely needed, because when Grasshopper Staffing Incorporated launched last month with a job fair, they were mobbed by about 300 attendees. “We had trimmers, budtenders, and even a few scientists – chemists – looking to get into the

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Security Firms Thrive While Cannabusiness Seeks Banking

March 10, 2015 No Comments

For all the progress made in the medical pot business, a huge obstacle for dispensaries and other cannabusinesses remains: opening a bank account. One would think that a $2.7 billion-and-growing industry would have banks lining up to take its money, but no. Because marijuana is still a Schedule I drug, bankers can’t get federal protections—such as the Federal Deposit Insurance

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Cannabusiness: Market Forces Can Be Good for the Environment

March 5, 2015 No Comments

Recently in Humboldt County, a team of inspectors from various agencies—the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), local water-quality control boards, the county Sheriff’s Office and others—surprised more than a dozen active ganja-growing operations along Sproul Creek in the Eel River watershed. Over three days, the inspectors found evidence of the usual environmental no-nos: waste discharge of nasty pesticides

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Cannabusiness: Approved to Grow, Native American Tribes Join the Green Revolution

February 13, 2015 No Comments

When the U.S. Justice Department announced in December that it would not enforce federal marijuana laws on Native American lands, it presented the nation’s 566 recognized tribes with an economic opportunity. The very first one to get in on the action is, not surprisingly, from Mendocino County, California. The 250-member Pinoleville Pomo Nation, just outside Ukiah, last month inked a

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Cannabusiness: Alaska Still Figuring Out Legal Pot

February 10, 2015 No Comments

On November 14, Alaska’s voters declared “Hell, yes” to Measure 2, thereby legalizing marijuana for recreational use in this, the nation’s largest and coolest state. But although Alaska will now join Washington, Oregon and Colorado among the ranks of the enlightened, the ink was barely dry on the new law before local governments moved to forestall or even reject its

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Alaska Cannabusiness Gets Ready to Take Off

February 3, 2015 No Comments

“I want to see Juneau become a forerunner,” says restaurant owner Tracy LaBarge. “I want to see it done in a very responsible and classy way.” She’s referring to the implementation of Measure 2, a voter-approved ballot initiative legalizing recreational marijuana in Alaska. Along with other pro-weed residents, LaBarge testified in January before the Juneau City and Borough Assembly, which

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