The presidential election is right around the corner and cannabis stocks are poised to benefit from this event as market sentiment improves with the opening of new state markets.

This November, a record number of states (at least nine) will have some type of cannabis initiative on the ballot. California, Arizona, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine will vote on recreational cannabis, while Florida, Arkansas, and North Dakota vote on medical cannabis.

The legal cannabis movement has created unprecedented opportunities for investors and this growth cycle will mint more millionaires than the tech boom. Investors looking for a new growth field need to take advantage of the cannabis sector as there will not be another growth opportunity like it for decades to come.

You know wine. You’re about to learn cannabis.

Earlier this month, Rainforest Farms became Juneau’s first working cannabis farm. Among its 240-some plants are 55 different varieties of pot. Two other Juneau farms have applied for licenses, and four other farms have started the licensing process, according to records kept by the Alaska Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office.

By the end of October, when retail sales are expected to begin, consumers will be confronted with dozens of different cannabis options. For connoisseurs, it promises to be a buffet of choice. For the rest of us, it’s cause for curiosity. Isn’t weed … well, weed?

With California poised to legalize recreational marijuana through Proposition 64 in November, California’s existing marijuana cultivators in Mendocino County are looking to protect their highest quality buds by applying for wine-style appellations.

The  Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that Justin Calvino, a “onetime Haight-Ashbury dope dealer,” is attempting to organize a formal designation, “Cannabis County,” for a specific geographically-defined region known to produce the state’s best crop.

The hope is to protect Mendocino farmers through “a legally defined and protected geographical identification system similar to what’s used in the wine industry.”

Eaze is a technology company that helps patients get medical cannabis deliveries on demand.

Anyone paying attention knows that the cannabis industry is rapidly becoming a multi-billion dollar industry—in spite of existing limitations and regulations. To learn more about the companies fueling this growth, we’re doing a series of profiles on the biggest names in cannabis.

That includes Eaze, a leading medical cannabis technology company, which connects verified patients with compliant dispensaries to get their medical marijuana delivered on demand. It is currently in operation in almost 100 cities in California.

iPhone scanners are helping legal cannabis growers track product and stay compliant with state regulations.

Before corporate shine and the smell of success, there was a counterculture aura and a whiff of weed. Pot and the dreams of some industrious guys shared a garage where the personal computing revolution incubated under the Apple brand.

So what would the late Steve Jobs think if he could see Apple’s iPhone used to keep the growing and selling of cannabis legal? Jobs, who said he smoked it early on because it made him feel more creative, might smile and say, cool!

In the beginning, of course, all the pot grew outside. 

When the colonists arrived in North America, they brought their love of cannabis with them. Cannabis is believed to have first been cultivated many thousands of years ago in the area north of the Himalayas. It has been prized by civilizations around the globe and used for medicine, textiles, nutrition, and religious ceremonies. After two millennia of human use, cannabis was an accepted part of many societies’ pharmacopeia.

By the 1800s, plantations had sprung up throughout the American colonies, dedicated to the growing of hemp for industrial purposes. Preparations of the plant could be found at many drug stores, and were an accepted product for medical use, even in children. 

Rebecca Reider says she's feeling a bit stoned.  

She's standing in the garden, admiring the size and health of her broad beans.

A TV3 crew have just visited moments before, to film the Californian-born Golden Bay resident smoking New Zealand's first legal buds since they were outlawed in the 1960s, from her stained glass pipe. 

Geoffrey Guy stood out when he began attending conferences of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Washington, DC, in the mid to late 1990s. The stout British gentleman, dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, was hard to miss among the other attendees dressed in tie-dye shirts and psychedelic parkas, recalled Allen St. Pierre, then NORML’s deputy national director.

But while he might not have fit in, Guy, a doctor in his early 40s who’d already made millions by founding a UK-based pharmaceutical company, was eager to learn all he could at the events about medical marijuana.

The state of the Denver industrial market in one word, according to the speakers at our Denver Industrial Investment & Development Conference: hot. Hot as it's ever been. Cannabis is one reason, but not the only reason.

A number of metrics show just how red-hot the market is, our speakers said. There have been 25 quarters of positive absorption in a row, vacancies below 5% since 2012, and every submarket is seeing record rental rates. Marijuana's been a piece of the story, but there's a diverse set of drivers, including population growth—after all, about 5,000 people a month are moving to metro Denver—and expanding ecommerce.