Pot biz conference ICBC to expand to Berlin, Vancouver and more

The International Cannabis Business Conference isn’t the largest or flashiest marijuana-minded event on the calendar, but it is among the most respected.

What started as the Oregon Marijuana Business Conference in 2013 is now a larger, more inclusive annual gathering held in San Francisco each winter. The 2016 edition will take over the Hyatt Regency in the Embarcadero on Feb. 13-14 with speakers Tommy Chong, former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, U.S. Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and Earl Blumenauer, Oaksterdam University executive chancellor Dale Sky Jones and others. 

Event organizer Alex Rogers is all too familiar with the cannabis industry and its many challenges. He owns two medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon — Ashland Alternative Health and Northwest Alternative Health. 

“We are activist-based,” Rogers told The Cannabist. “It is not just a business conference, but a culture and advocacy conference.” 

Rogers is expecting more than 1,000 attendees to this year’s ICBC in...

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