Extroverting

Author: Brad Dunn

  • Canadian Pot Producer to Hold Job Fair to Keep Up With Demand

    With legal recreational sales of marijuana right around the corner, one of the companies that will supply New Brunswickers with cannabis is looking for new workers to meet the demand.

    Last week, Finance Minister Cathy Rogers laid out the first steps that will see a new Crown corporation oversee recreational sales in the province. The provincial government still hasn’t provided details on a retail model or where these stores will go, according to CBC News.

    But Organigram and Canopy Growth have secured a deal to supply at least nine million grams of cannabis a year for sale in the province.

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  • Legal Pot Brings Bonanza of Gov’t Jobs in California

    Legal Pot Brings Bonanza of Gov’t Jobs in California

    Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists.

    Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California in 2018, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn’t green and leafy, it’s government jobs, according to the L.A. Times.

    The state is on a hiring binge to fill what eventually will be hundreds of new government positions by 2019 intended to bring order to the legal pot economy, from keeping watch on what’s seeping into streams near cannabis grows to running background checks on storefront sellers who want government licenses. Thousands of additional jobs are expected to be added by local governments.

    The swiftly expanding bureaucracy represents just one aspect of the complex challenge faced by California: Come January, the state will unite its longstanding medical cannabis industry with the newly legalized recreational one, creating what will be the United States’ largest legal pot economy.

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  • Standing Room Only at Marijuana Job Fair in Pennsylvania

    Standing Room Only at Marijuana Job Fair in Pennsylvania

    A standing room only crowd of more than 400 job seekers packed a ballroom in Danville, Pa., where resumes were collected and one-on-one interviews conducted for what will eventually be 100 hires in a medical marijuana facility due to begin operation in December.

    There was barely enough standing room in the ballroom, located at 239 Mill St., to handle all the people standing, because the 250 seats were all taken about half an hour before the formal presentation began, according to The Daily Item.

    “What an incredible turnout,” said Pete Kadens, CEO of Green Thumb Industries. “This is exactly why we came to Danville.”

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  • Want to Invest in Cannabis? Here’s Where to Start

    Want to Invest in Cannabis? Here’s Where to Start

    For much of the past year, and even beyond, marijuana-related stocks have been practically unstoppable, according to The Motley Fool.

    U.S. legal pot sales are expected to grow by approximately 30% in 2017, and by an estimated 300% between 2016 and 2021 to around $17 billion. Investors clearly want in on this growth, which is why we’ve seen so many pot stocks rally by 100% or more over the trailing year.

    What are the two key metrics every investor should consider when buying cannabis-related stocks? Working capital and cash flow. Click here to learn why.

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  • Marijuana and ‘Spice’ Could Trigger Seizures, Study Says

    While a number of studies have suggested that marijuana may be effective for reducing seizures, new research cautions that potent and synthetic forms of the drug have the opposite effect.

    Researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan found that both natural tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the psychoactive chemical in marijuana — and the synthetic cannabinoid JWH-018 known as “spice” caused seizures in mice.

    There has been increasing research for the use of marijuana – particularly a cannabinoid in the drug called cannabidiol (CBD) – in the treatment of seizures in patients with epilepsy. However, the new study from Malyshevskaya and team suggests that general use of high-potency marijuana may actually trigger seizures.

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  • Green on Green: Colorado Ranchers Create Zero-Carbon Footprint Pot Farm

    Green on Green: Colorado Ranchers Create Zero-Carbon Footprint Pot Farm

    Rob and Linda Trotter looked around at their TNT Ranch, at the fertile soil, at the snowmelt water that starts at 12,500 feet above sea level and flows to them before it goes anywhere else, and decided they should grow something.

    And so they launched Pot Zero, which they say are the most environmentally conscious marijuana products in Colorado and beyond. Their outdoor grow operation creates no carbon footprint.

    “We are blessed with fantastic mountain loam soil, intense ultraviolet light because of our 8,200-foot elevation and water that comes directly to our property from a pristine, 12,500-foot mountain,” Rob Trotter said.

    A hydroelectric plant generates all the power the ranch needs and more.

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  • Marijuana and Infertility: What You Need to Know

    Cannabis And Infertility: It’s a longstanding complaint that, when it comes to medical research, men’s bodies still represent a sort of norm against which women are considered a hard to understand deviation. The field of medical cannabis is no exception.

    According to a 2013 literature review, the role of the cannabinoids in women’s reproductive health “has been poorly studied.” That’s despite the fact that we knew all the way back in 1973 that cannabinoid blood levels spike during ovulation and that a 2009 study established that the entire endocannabinoid system (ECS) is present and quietly active in the ovaries.

    Read the full story at the NY Daily News.

  • New Data Reveals Average Cost of Marijuana in Canada

    New Data Reveals Average Cost of Marijuana in Canada

    With all the controversy surrounding the legalization of marijuana across Canada and the uncertainty of just how much it’ll cost 4/20 friendly Canadians, weed is definitely on the brain. Just yesterday the Ontario government gave an estimate on just how much they might be selling legal marijuana for and many were not happy. There defense for the price suggested was that it met the black market average.

    However, what exactly is the average cost of marijuana across Canada really? How much is each province paying? Well one reddit user posted a graph of the average marijuana prices of 1 gram in each Canadian province and the territories as a whole. The averages are according to the calculations taken by the Parliamentary Budget Office of Canada from 2015-2016.

    The national average for one gram of weed in Canada is priced at $8.32.

    Click here to see the data.

  • Canadian College First to Put Cannabis on Curriculum

    Canadian College First to Put Cannabis on Curriculum

    A southern Ontario college says it will be the first to offer a post-secondary credential in the production of commercial cannabis, according to CBC News.

    Niagara College says the graduate certificate program will launch in the fall of 2018 and aims to prepare students to work in the licensed production of cannabis, which includes marijuana, hemp fibre and hemp seed.

    The college’s president, Dan Patterson, says the program is meant to address a growing labour market need in the wake of legislative changes in Canada and abroad.

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  • Police Discover 9-Foot Marijuana Plant on Domestic Dispute Call

    Police Discover 9-Foot Marijuana Plant on Domestic Dispute Call

    When Clayton County sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic dispute earlier this month, they instead found a 9-foot-tall marijuana plant and another 4-foot-tall plant, according to the Atlanta Journal Constituition.

    The incident began Sept. 7 on Mockingbird Trail when Diane Hazelrigs told authorities her 30-year-old son, Douglas Hazelrigs, left her house threatening to shoot her when he returned, according to the sheriff’s office. He was yelling and using profane language, the woman said.

    She then pointed out two houses on the neighboring street of Hummingbird Way where her son is known to hang out with brothers Michael McGuoirk and William McGuoirk, authorities said.

    “Deputies were told that Michael’s brother William had given him seeds so that he could grow a plant of his own and that they would find a much larger plant where William lived on the same street,” the sheriff’s office said.

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