By: Chuck Epstein
When Niko Russo’s father slipped on black ice and shattered his spine, he started a long journey that would eventually push him to become an expert in the properties of hemp and to ultimately form his own hemp production company.
For Russo and co-founder...
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By: Chuck Epstein of Salar Group
It’s no secret that every aspiring entrepreneur focuses on building a brand. For certain industries, this is a valid pursuit. But for the emerging cannabis industry, devoting excessive resources in time and money to build a brand may be a...
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By Chuck Epstein
Call it good timing, fortuitous luck, or being in the right place at the right time, but the cannabis industry seems poised to become the most technological industry ever to develop.
While the assembly line revolutionized auto manufacturing in the 19oo's, this sole technological advance...
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By: Chuck Epstein
As more states move towards legalizing cannabis for medical or recreational use, it has created a greater demand for accurate, quality information focused on demographics of the cannabis market on a state-by-state and national level.
The problem is that accurate, timely information about the...
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By: Chuck Epstein
The populist wave surging through U.S. politics is also reinforcing the developing cannabis industry nationwide as major institutional financing sources continue to shy away from lending to the stigmatized industry due to the legal gray space between federal and state laws and regulations....
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By: Chuck Epstein
Alarmed by the suicide rate of more than 22 veterans per day, a veteran’s group is challenging the U.S. Veteran Affairs Administration’s (VA) policies in court and on the public relations front about the restrictions of medical marijuana as an approved treatment for...
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By: Chuck Epstein
After a 15-year wait, the first medical marijuana dispensary opened in Nevada in July 2015 in Reno and the second opened in August in Las Vegas where out of the more than 9,500 registered medical marijuana users in the state, over 6,700 live...
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