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What A Trade War Means For Your Marijuana
Chinese-made vaping devices are among the items subject to tariffs, which could have far-reaching consequences for the booming cannabis market. Companies that import vaping products will have to either eat the additional cost of the tariff, source production in another country or increase the prices charged to consumers.

Crime is Down and Tax Revenue is Up in Denver After Cannabis Legalization
The city annual report that analyzes the effect of cannabis legalization tells the world that crime is down and tax revenue is up. What’s there not to like.

Corona Maker Invests $4 Billion More in Canopy
Constellation Brands said on Wednesday it would invest $4 billion more in Canopy Growth raising its stake in the Canadian marijuana producer to 38 percent.

Scientists Discover You Can Use Espresso Machines To Make Marijuana Extracts
Got an espresso machine? You could take a nug of weed, place it in an espresso machine and extract cannabis ingredients in under one minute. Researchers said, “The use of hard cap espresso machines has been recently proposed for analytical extractions due to its easy use, speed, availability and low price, providing efficient extraction of organic compounds from solid samples in few seconds.”

Cannabis Jobs Soar In Canada
Cannabis-related searches and job postings remain a small corner of the Canadian labour market, but they’re growing rapidly. Data found that weed-related searches increased to 26 out of every 10,000 searches, up from six. Employers have also been looking for more help within the expanding cannabis industry — from retail “budtenders,” to production assistants, to quality assurance. New help-wanted ads in the sector were up three-fold last month, compared to a year ago, and now make up 25 out of every 10,000 new jobs on the website.

How Republicans Learned to Love Marijuana
For decades, marijuana legalization was a nonstarter in Washington, and particularly in Republican politics. Things are changing rapidly. The speedy growth of support for marijuana legalization among Republicans in the past few years—and particularly in the past few months—comes as the GOP gears up for a highly contested midterm election cycle.