Just after 9 a.m. Monday, Frank Berardi waited in the entryway of the Fairbanks International Airport Police and Fire Department building. Sean Martines, chief of police and fire for the airport, arrived a few minutes later. He shook Berardi's hand.

"I've got some marijuana for you," Martines said.

Berardi's marijuana – 8 grams of the strain Pineapple Express – had been taken while he was passing through airport security on July 27, headed to Anchorage on an Alaska Airlines flight, he said. When a Transportation Security Administration agent asked if he had anything breakable in his carry-on bag, Berardi mentioned the jar of marijuana.

It’s been a wild ride for marijuana stocks in the past month or so, from legalization in several states to the great weed boom and bust cycle we’re witnessing in the stock market. Now is the time to keep sharp on marijuana stocks.

With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of three different factors that any self-respecting marijuana stock investor should want to keep in mind.

Know Marijuana Stock’s Value 

You’e heard it before (even from us), but it bears repeating: Be careful about the hype.

From funds to private equity to fertilizer stocks, the fast-growing cannabis industry is providing outsized opportunities.

Let’s take a pause from the high drama of Donald Trump and politics to recognize that Nov. 8 was also a watershed moment in the decades-long campaign to legalize cannabis. 

Voters approved measures legalizing the adult use of cannabis in four states, including California. Medicinal use of cannabis was approved in three additional states and expanded in one other.

The Game is not taking involvement in the marijuana industry lightly, and he’s diving head first into the big bad world of Mary Jane investing. On the heels of him investing in medical marijuana dispensary The Reserve in Santa Monica, the California rapper has now started his own investment fund.

Game announced on social media that he is set to launch his TreesByGame Holdings marijuana investment fund, and is inviting fans and shareholders around the world to get involved.

Early this year, a disabled former automobile body worker named Greg Vialpando explained to lawmakers in New Mexico how medical marijuana helped his chronic back pain.

State legislators were considering a bill backed by workers’ compensation insurers that would have exempted them from paying for medical marijuana. But Mr. Vialpando and another patient described how smoking the drug let them escape years of stupor caused by powerful prescription narcotic drugs known as opioids.

The lawmakers ended up dropping the bill, and Mr. Vialpando’s expenses for buying marijuana are covered by insurance.

“I would recommend that people use medical marijuana over opioids any day,” Mr. Vialpando, 58, said in a telephone interview.

Now that the citizens of Nevada have decided to permit recreational marijuana both the state’s gaming licensee’s and gaming regulators need to figure out what it really means to the state’s gaming industry.

One might think – since the state has approved the use of both medical and recreational marijuana –what’s the big deal? Why not treat cannabis consumption no differently than, say, a new beer?

Because, gratitude.

The upcoming holiday season serves as a nice reminder to consider all the things we are grateful for in this big, beautiful world. Oh, we are so incredibly grateful for cannabis. And, why not? Weed is amazing! Today, over 60 percent of U.S. citizens support legalization, that’s the highest amount in recorded history. Here are seven reasons why cannabis lovers should be grateful. If you don’t love weed, that’s OK. This list may nudge you to appreciate it a little more. There’s a lot of goodness happening here.

On this Thanksgiving Day, Reggie Williams will move freely and with only minor pain. A man who has endured 24 operations on his right knee, who has spent the last two decades in chronic agony, now passes his days in true thanks, for a treatment he says is his salvation.

Williams is a regular user of medical cannabis, and doesn’t mind letting the world know about it. He says he isn’t looking to start a crusade, but Williams is a natural crusader. He wants the NFL and its players union to consider his story when next they sit around a conference table.

Everything you need to know about the 5th Annual Marijuana Business Conference and Expo in Sin City.

Spirits were high at the 5th annual Marijuana Business Conference in Las Vegas this past weekend. Attendees were universally excited by the election results, which saw voters approve 8 out of 9 marijuana legalization ballot measures.

This year’s conference was the biggest ever, sold out with attendance exceeding 10,000 people. Next year, the conference will be moving to a bigger site at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The conference featured a dizzying array of vendors spread across three expo halls, all of which were jam-packed. 

With marijuana now a legal business in many states, enthusiasts want to meet online like everybody else.

Marijuana has always been a shared experience. As a prohibited substance, users gathered together, sometimes in the shadows. Because it was once relatively scarce and expensive, it was passed around in private. And, because use enhanced experience, the smokers needed someone to listen.