By Jeff Siegel

As the foundation of marijuana prohibition continues to crack under the pressure of common sense and millions of rational voices, all kinds of new opportunities are appearing in the marijuana space. One in particular is the marijuana delivery service.

Of course, such a thing has long existed. It’s just that it was illegal. But with more and more states and provinces legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, it’s now existing on the up and up.

As an investor, I’m always looking for a new opportunity. And in the marijuana space, there are certainly some good ones. GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH) has actually been a very good one for me this year, delivering gains of nearly 70%, YTD.

There’s no chocolate river running through the new Altai Brands facility in Salinas. It’s missing a hoard of diminutive green-haired employees, there are no booby-trapped candies that expose children’s flaws, and as far as we know the company has yet to develop a snozzberry flavor. But still, Altai is the closest thing in existence to a Wonka-esque cannabis-infused chocolate factory—and co-founder Rob Weakley is its Willy (sans purple velvet suit).

Authorities are warning Oregon marijuana growers to be very careful using pesticides.
    
The Oregon Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it has drawn up a pesticide advisory, which the Oregon Health Authority is sending to registered medical marijuana growers around the state.
    
The advisory says no pesticides have been specifically approved for use on marijuana, which is still illegal on a federal level, and the health and safety impacts on cannabis workers have not been evaluated.
    
Department of Agriculture spokesman Bruce Pokarney says rules for pesticide use are being drawn up along with a host of other rules for growing and selling retail marijuana.
    

Understand the market

Figuring out the demand for product in a particular area determines so much about one's business, according to Kayvan Khalatbari, founding partner at Denver Relief Consulting. Once someone knows how much marijuana they should grow and/or sell, they can establish how much room they will need for their establishment.

Glenn Price, whose medical marijuana shop was raided by Winnipeg police this week, says he plans to challenge his drug-related charges in court.

Price was arrested at his shop, Your Medical Cannabis Headquarters on Main Street, along with his wife and a patient who was using the dispensary on Tuesday.

Police allege he was operating an "illegal drug trafficking business which was held out to be a medical marijuana dispensary."

He has been charged with drug trafficking, possessing a scheduled substance for the purpose of trafficking, possessing the proceeds of property obtained by crime and possessing a scheduled substance.

By Johnny Green

The State of Washington legalized recreational marijuana in November 2012. But it wasn’t until July 2014 until recreational marijuana sales started. After the delayed start of recreational marijuana sales, recreational marijuana sales numbers in Washington climbed steadily month after month. That streak ended last month when sales numbers took a dip in Washington for the first time. Per Marijuana Business Daily:

Marijuana has been legal to possess in the District of Columbia for approximately seven months, but now you can officially buy a bong from the man who made it all happen.

Adam Eidinger is reopening the doors to his head shop, Capitol Hemp, Wednesday, three years after D.C. police raided the original store, The Washington Post reports.

Like it or not, the cannabis industry has arrived.

One of the industry’s leading marketing gurus told a business networking group in Centennial last Thursday that regulation has made Colorado’s growing cannabis market a success — at least for now.

The Opportunity Coalition, which sponsors forums for business owners and entrepreneurs to connect, brought Dixie Elixir’s marketing chief Joe Hodas to discuss the growth of the industry in Colorado.

If you’ve been recruited to work at a startup, or are crazy enough to start one, chances are that you’ve dealt with issues of confidence.

Both in terms of your co-workers, or even yourself, it can often feel like riding a roller coaster: rising from the heights of overconfidence, plunging to the depths of under-confidence, and then just as suddenly back up again.

To help you determine just how much swagger you and your colleagues actually have in the tank, I’ve devised this 13-step self-administered questionnaire. It takes only a couple of minutes, so no need to overthink it—just answer quickly and honestly with a true or false, and then tally up your score of positive answers.