Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

Vermont’s governor on Wednesday halted, at least temporarily, efforts to become the ninth state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but offered to
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 26, 2017

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

West Virginia’s House voted Tuesday to legalize doctor-prescribed marijuana to treat certain medical conditions following Senate passage of a similar measure last week.


Continue Reading The Week in Weed: April 7, 2017

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

Lawmakers are proposing to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois but say the legislation probably won’t come up for a vote until next year.


Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 24, 2017

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

Startups are finding new ways to tailor technologies specifically to cannabis businesses.


Continue Reading The Week in Weed: February 3, 2017

Strong intellectual property is the cornerstone of most start-up companies, and in most cases it is the key asset utilized by companies in securing financing and investment.  Studies have estimated that non-tangible assets represent over 80% of an average business’ value, and when it comes to startups, the number is even higher.[1]  The marijuana industry, because of its uncertain legal status under federal law, is at a strategic disadvantage, but despite this fact, the industry has still continued to blossom and is currently valued at $6.7 B and is expected to rise to almost $20 B by 2020.[2]  However, failure to secure traditional forms of intellectual property (i.e., patents, trademarks, and copyrights) should not dissuade marijuana entrepreneurs from the inherent value intellectual property.  Developing a keen business strategy around both traditional and non-traditional forms of intellectual property can open the door to additional revenue opportunities.
Continue Reading Unharvested Opportunities for the Marijuana Industry – Exploiting Non-Traditional Forms of Intellectual Property

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

In a major positive step for the cannabis industry, the New York Stock Exchange last month listed a new real estate investment trust called Innovative
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: January 27, 2017

As we reported last month, on October 17, 2016, Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc., a real estate investment trust (colloquially, a REIT) specializing in the acquisition, ownership and management of industrial properties leased to experienced, state-licensed operators of regulated medical use cannabis facilities, filed a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission under which the company is offering up to 8.75 million shares at an initial public offering price of $20 per share.  The Company simultaneously filed to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Continue Reading November Surprise? NYSE Approves Industrial Innovative Properties’ Listing Application

As election day draws near, proposed laws which would permit recreational or medical use of marijuana are on the ballot in nine states.  Riding the wave of the legalization movement–in addition to the nine states with legalization measures currently on their ballots, four states have already legalized recreational marijuana and 25 states currently permit medical use–business interests are lining up to service the potentially burgeoning cannabis industry, and one company in particular is poised to take a marijuana-related business model public and mainstream.
Continue Reading Trick or REIT: A Marijuana-Focused Real Estate Company is Going Public, but will NYSE be on Board?

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

You would have been hard pressed, just a few years ago, to find investments outside of family-office groups. Then Washington and Colorado legalized.


Continue Reading Week in Weed: July 22, 2016