People sit at a seminar for medical marijuana in a hotel in Quincy. QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) -

A workshop for people looking to work in the medical marijuana business was held Saturday at the Town N Country Inn and Suites in Quincy.

Herbal Remedies Dispensary Manager Andy Schnack says Saturday was meant to educate people on what it means to work in a dispensary and what information potential employees would need to know when it comes to recommending products to patients. 

Schnack says there was a small exam at the end of workshop and those who passed received a certificate of completion. 

When Jazmin Hupp was searching for a container for her marijuana at the Cannabis Cup trade show in Denver, all she could find were boring, utilitarian glass jars.

So she asked a vendor at one of the booths if he had anything more elegant. He offered to make her a jar in pink.

Her immediate conclusion: “You guys need some help.”

Hupp’s experience may shed some light on why women account for only about a third of heavy and moderate cannabis users, even as they make up about half of occasional consumers, according to the Brightfield Group, a market-research firm. Women like Hupp say that’s partly because current pot purveyors aren’t offering the products they want and are marketing in ways that annoy them.

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Hawaii's medical marijuana law doesn't automatically protect a patient whose results come up positive during random drug testing by their employer.  
"If they have a zero-tolerance policy for drug use they can still fire you," Rep. Karl Rhoads said.

Rhoads chairs the House Judiciary Committee. He said under state law medical marijuana users have no workplace protection, plus the federal government considers cannabis a Schedule 1 narcotic.
 
"There's going to continue to be tension between states that have at least partially legalized pakalolo and the federal government. And this is an area where it crops up very prominently," he said.

Contract sets industry-leading standards for wages, benefits and brings good jobs to the Portland area

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Workers at Stoney Brothers, a marijuana dispensary in Portland, Ore. have approved the first-ever union contract for cannabis workers in Oregon and have joined United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555. The vote to approve the contract was unanimous, and sets a new standard for cannabis workers in Oregon.

“With our new contract, I am excited to have paid holidays and vacation time”

SANTA FE – The names of New Mexico medical marijuana dispensaries and their employees will soon be made public, under a directive announced Wednesday by the office of Gov. Susana Martinez.

The Republican governor’s decision will reverse a long-standing confidentiality provision in the state’s Medical Cannabis Program and comes less than a week after a lawsuit was filed in an attempt to strike down the regulation that allows for the names of medical marijuana producers to be kept secret.

It will not apply to the 15,625 certified patients in the medical pot program – just the producers and their employees.

The weed-delivery business is not as exciting as High Maintenance.

For Maddy, it started with love. Two years ago, after her friendship with one of the two male founders of PK Delivery turned into something more, she decided to join his medical cannabis-delivery business. When her beau decided to take a step back and focus on another project, she took over full time. Since mid-2013, she’s been doing weed delivery—like High Maintenance, but more boring.

“It’s not exciting,” she says as we prepare to deliver to one of her regulars.

David H. Seber: President of Hemp Shield LLC

Women could create millions of jobs if the companies they founded grew at the same pace as men's.

Tapping into this huge economic resource was the subject of a conference in Berlin, where attendees discussed what barriers women face around the world and what could be done to overcome them.

If women’s businesses flourished at the same rate as men’s, they would spark 15 million jobs in the United States, 74 million jobs in China, and 1.9 million jobs in France, according to the Global Women Entrepreneur Leaders Scorecard, which is research sponsored by Dell that crunches data from groups such as the World Bank and the United Nations.

You can't eradicate fear, for fear and cowardice are permanent advisers to all our decisions. Fear is a natural human response when faced with a life change as significant as quitting your job to found a startup.

But you are not alone. See every person who pursued the path of self-actualization faced the very same fear, but it didn't stop them. Because they were motivated to overcome their fears by an even greater fear ... of living a failed life of regret.

Self-actualizing people are far more fearful of:

Rep. Dan Schoen, DFL-Cottage Grove, a co-sponsor of last year's medical marijuana bill, said Tuesday that he has accepted a consulting job with LeafLine Labs, one of two cannabis companies in the state. 

Schoen said he is taking an unpaid leave from his job as a Cottage Grove police officer through the end of the year. During that time, he said he will work as a security consultant on a contract basis with LeafLine Labs.

He declined to specify how much the job pays, but said "it's less than I made being a police officer."

Schoen said he worked with LeafLine Labs last year when they contacted him for help in scouting cities that would let them operate.