At 4:20 a.m. on a recent day, a group of marijuana activists, passing around the occasional joint, stood in line outside the Russell Senate Office Building for the first day of the confirmation hearings of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), nominated to be attorney general. They wanted the man who once told his colleagues that “good people don’t smoke marijuana” to see them inside — and to smell their pot-stained clothes.

A new report estimates consumers spent $53.3 billion on cannabis in North America last year.

The first-of-its-kind analysis, compiled by ArcView Market Research, spans legal, medical and illegal marijuana markets across both the United States and Canada. At around $46 billion, the illegal market constituted 87 percent of marijuana sales in 2016 (a decrease from 90 percent in 2015), dwarfing both medical and legal sales.

The marijuana investment and research firm provided a 25-page executive summary of its fifth annual State of Legal Marijuana Markets to The Huffington Post Tuesday, ahead of the full report’s release in February.

Concentrates can refer to a multitude of products in the world of cannabis – from oil to wax to shatter. The term is a generic way to reference any cannabis product that has been created through the extraction of cannabinoids from the plant.

Concentrates are growing in popularity and are generally considered some of the most refined cannabis products. Although a few forms of concentrates have been used all over the world for hundreds of years, many are recent innovations created to meet the demands of a newly-legalized mass market.

It looks really close to becoming official.

All signs are pointing to marijuana being legalized in Canada sometime in 2017. Millions of Canadians who enjoy a puff or two every now and again are excited they?ll no longer have to hide their habits from their friends, professional colleagues, and especially law enforcement.

But the excitement of the average smoker doesn?t get close to the euphoria surrounding investing in the drug. There are thousands of investors convinced pot stocks are the next big thing.

The lit world is a wired world. Here's how to keep charged.

Consuming cannabis is more in vogue than ever before. Everyone smokes; or vapes, or eats, or dabs weed. Well, not literally everyone does, but literally every adult American human belongs to a demographic that does partake. And all of those demographics propelling the retail weed and ancillary industries have a buyer’s crush on sweet tech products.

If Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for drug czar, marijuana advocates might not be as disappointed as they imagine.

True, in 2014 Bondi went all out trying to keep John Morgan's medical marijuana initiative off Florida’s ballot. It didn't work, Floridians voted on the initiative anyway, but it only received 57.6 percent of the vote, falling short of the 60 percent constitutional amendments need to win.

By 2016 Bondi had thought it through. She could have done it again -- hard-charged after the amendment, working to kill it before the ballots were printed. 

New public service announcements in Colorado aim to keep people’s attention on using marijuana and marijuana-related products safely and responsibly.

The Marijuana Industry Group (MIG), a trade association representing marijuana businesses, is backing the campaign. MIG touts itself as the oldest and largest trade association for legal and licensed cannabis businesses.

The campaign seeks to make people aware they need to take precautionary measures when using cannabis to ensure the safety of themselves and others.

Denver is starting work on becoming the first city in the nation to allow marijuana clubs and public pot use in places such as coffee shops, yoga studios and art galleries.

Voters narrowly approved the "social use" measure last November. But the ballot proposal didn't spell out many rules for how the marijuana could be consumed, beyond saying that the drug can't be smoked inside and that patrons must be over 21.

A workgroup made up of Denver business owners, city pot regulators and marijuana opponents starts work Wednesday on suggesting regulations.

The state Liquor Control Board already has decreed that no businesses with a liquor license can allow marijuana use. That leaves it to restaurants that don't serve alcohol and other event spaces.

With a new year and a new presidential administration set to begin, my firm is fielding a lot of questions about what is going to happen and is hearing a lot of claims about the cannabis industry that just aren’t true. In the past, I’ve written about the top 10 industry red flags and the top 10 industry red herrings. In this post, I discuss the following six bogus claims about the marijuana industry:

President-elect Donald Trump and appointee U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not impair state-legal marijuana.

Eaze is a cannabis delivery service in California. Using the company app, customers can order online from a choice of high-quality, lab-tested products, and then track the progress from the local dispensary to their homes. Eaze has become the largest such company in the country, growing with the help of $13-million of venture capital investment late last fall. We recently caught up with founder Keith McCarty by e-mail. Here are his thoughts on the company's growth potential in the era of greatly expanding medical and recreational cannabis markets.