DENVER, CO / ACCESSWIRE / August 19, 2015 / AmeriCann, Inc. (OTCQX: ACAN), a company with offices in Denver and Boston that designs, develops and owns large-scale advanced medical cannabis facilities, announced that it has added two additional members to its well-respected Advisory Board.

Dr. Brian A. Corr, a noted expert in controlled-environment horticulture, and Nickolas J. Brait, a licensed attorney specializing in the national cannabis industry, have joined the AmeriCann Advisory Board and will play key roles in the Company's continuing aggressive national expansion plans.

Legalizing medical marijuana would open the door to a host of problems, including abuse by children and deaths from psychotic reactions, a Colorado drug-law enforcer warned Utah lawmakers Wednesday.

Legalizing medical marijuana would open the door to a host of problems, including abuse by children and deaths from psychotic reactions, a Colorado drug-law enforcer warned Utah lawmakers Wednesday.

Jim Gerhardt, vice president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, provided the Health and Human Services Interim Committee with a litany of woes Utah's neighboring state has experienced since legalizing medical marijuana.

"Colorado voters made it clear that they do not want adults to be punished for possessing small amounts of marijuana."

A state appeals court has overturned the marijuana conviction of a Colorado woman who was sentenced and convicted for marijuana possession just days after voters approved a measure legalizing recreational marijuana in the state almost three years ago -- retroactively applying the law to her case. 

Forty years ago, making a pot brownie meant crushing some buds into your batter and stirring by hand.

Now workers bake marijuana-laced brownies by the dozen in industrial kitchens, and they're sold in marijuana dispensaries alongside products like Lemon Crinkle Cookies, Bubba Kush Root Beer, Cheeba Chews and Mile High Mint Bars.

The market for marijuana "edibles" has exploded as medical cannabis legalization has spread across the U.S. in 23 in states, from Hawaii to Maine. Four of these states and Washington, D.C., have also legalized recreational use.

Thirty out-of-towners pile into a giant limousine-like bus parked outside the downtown Cheba Hut at noon on a summer Saturday. The group includes an eclectic array of visitors who range wildly in age and socioeconomic standing, and who hail from such disparate locales as Hannibal, Missouri, New York City and Argentina. They have just one thing in common: They love weed.

The cannabis products are scheduled to launch by the end of the year in Colorado.

Mark Morley looks out over 30 acres he owns east of Pueblo, Colorado, and imagines the future. On this blustery May afternoon, there’s little more than mud and puddles here, bordered by highway and railroad tracks and flanked by farm buildings and rolling hills. But by the end of September, if all goes well, he’ll be looking at a pungent green thicket, as 14,400 marijuana plants reach their full 8-foot height. It’s one of several major outdoor grows launching this summer in Pueblo County. Eventually, Morley plans to expand onto another 1,500 acres, investing in center-pivot irrigation, greenhouses and processing facilities able to handle 40,000 plants.

Today, the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce urged against a culture of dangerous potential overregulation of legal cannabis edibles in Colorado.
 
At the HB13-1361 and HB14-1366 Work Group Meeting on August 11, the Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) of the Department of Revenue (DOR) discussed with various stakeholders the creation of new rules surrounding all edible cannabis products.
 
The Chamber also stands behind the consensus at the meeting regarding standard measurement procedures and the need for public education to always be the number one priority.
 

BETHESDA, Maryland, Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cannabics Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTCQB: CNBX) announced today that first reports from Colorado show that WanaCapsXR cannabis capsules are sold in every region of Colorado.

WanaCaps XR is the result of a partnership between Wana Brands and Cannabics Pharmaceuticals. "The reports from Colorado on increasing sales and returning satisfied customers is an indication to expand into key medical marijuana markets, including New York, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada, through licensing agreements with Wana Brands," said  Itamar Borochov, CEO of Cannabics Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Colorado’s monthly recreational cannabis sales topped $50 million for the first time, according to new data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.

The retail pot sales figures for June 2015 also saw their largest-ever month-over-month increase, adding credibility to 2014 trends that hinted at marijuana sales spiking in Colorado tourism’s high seasons of summer and winter.

Colorado state Sen. Pat Steadman, a Democrat representing District 31, said that spikes in recreational cannabis sales correlating with tourism hotspots “wouldn’t surprise me.”