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5/13/2020 - MJ Biz Daily: Is cannabis multistate operator Harvest Health in hot water – or just busy cutting deals?
4/20/2020 - USA Today: Marijuana's big moment: Pot stores are essential businesses. Will legal weed go mainstream?
4/4/2020 - Fortune: Why investors suddenly turned on pot stocks
3/26/2020 - MJ Biz Daily: Coronavirus impact felt in cannabis industry M&A as Harvest Health-Verano deal scuttled
3/17/2020 - USA Today: Will legal marijuana stores close? Americans stock up on pot for coronavirus quarantine
3/6/2020 - MJ Biz Daily: Coronavirus will compound financial pressures for cannabis companies but also provide openings for investors
2/13/2020 - USA Today: All eyes on New York state plan to legalize marijuana, help those hit by War on Drugs
2/11/2020 - Benzinga: Prohibition Is Expensive: Sit Or Get Off The 'Pot'
9/30/2019 - TD Ameritrade: Interview on Vaping Crisis
8/13/2019 - Cheddar TV CannaBiz: “GreenWave Discusses Pot Stock"
8/09/2019 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Dixie Brands New Partner”
8/08/2019 - TD Ameritrade Network: Video “The Watch List”
7/30/2019 - The Verge: “Drink up, stoners Big Alcohol is pouring billions into the drinkable marijuana market. But is that how anybody wants to get high?”
7/26/2019 - Cannabis Law Report: Greenberg Traurig LLP Cannabis ETF Deal Illustrates Wall St Firms are Moving Past Fears Of Working With Cannabis Companies
7/03/2019 - Cheddar: “Despite Being Fired, Ex-Canopy CEO Bruce Linton Tells Cheddar ‘The Place Will Rip On”
6/17/2019 - Fortune: “This Pot Company Stock Is Now More Popular Than Apple Among Millennials”
5/25/2019 - USA Today: “As marijuana prices drop, growers push ‘organic’ cannabis – with a higher price tag”
5/05/2019 - The New York Times: “Breaking the News to Mom and Dad: I’m Selling Weed (Legally)”
4/22/2019 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Marijuana Vaporizer Company Pax Labs Raises Benchmark Raises $420 Million in Funding”
4/20/2019 - The Motley Fool:” Why MedMen Could be the Best Pot Stock in the U.S..or the Worst”
4/10/2019 - Yahoo Finance: “Colorado’s Q1 Cannabis Sales Figures Reveal Continued Cannibalization Of Medical Markets”
4/06/2019 - Uptown Radio: “Ban on Vertical Integration Considered as Solution to Diversity in New York’s Cannabis Industry”
3/09/2019 - Cheddar: “Despite Being Fired, Ex-Canopy CEO Bruce Linton Tells Cheddar ‘The Place Will Rip On”
3/07/2019 - Benzinga: “California Marks 1 Year Of Recreational Marijuana: How Much Cannabis Was Sold?”
3/06/2019 - The Motley Fool: “The Marijuana Industry: Everything You Need to Know”
2/23/2019 - The Motley Fool: “Is It Time to Buy This Marijuana Supplier Stock Again?”
2/22/2019 - The Motley Fool: “3 Retail Marijuana Stocks to Watch Now”
2/14/2019 - Marijuana Business Daily: “After String of Successes, Multistate Cannabis Firm MedMen Forced to Confront Adversity
2/08/2019 - The Street: “Investing Ideas for Extraction and Vape”
1/21/2019 - Market Watch: “Pot Stocks, ETFs, Top News And Data From The Cannabis Industry This Week”
1/17/2019 - The Motley Fool: “The Big News That’s Moving Marijuana Stocks Higher”
1/14/2019 - The Motley Fool: “It’s Official: Canopy Growth’s Coming to America After All”
1/09/2019 - The Motley Fool: “Are These Top Marijuana Stocks to Own in 2019?”
12/30/2018 - CPA Trendlines: “Cannabis CPA Carves Out Investment Research Niche”
12/24/2018 - Michigan Radio NPR: “2019 is expected to be a busy year for marijuana investors in Michigan”
12/23/2018 - The Motley Fool: “What Are the Best Marijuana Stocks?
12/12/2018 - The Motley Fool: “3 Pot Stocks to Play Florida’s Burgeoning Medical Marijuana Market”
12/12/2018 - New York State Society of CPAs: “Speaker: Cannabis Industry Ramping Up, with Major Opportunities for CPA Firms”
12/10/2018 - National Real Estate Investor: “Cannabis Legalization in Michigan and New Jersey Should Provide CRE Investors with New Opportunities”
12/05/2018 - Yahoo Finance: “State-By-State Cannabis Sales Show That Recreational Weed’s Disruption Of Medical Pot Continues”
11/21/2018 - The Street: “Pot Stock Saturation Is Turning the Cannabis Bull Market Into a Bear”
11/20/2018 - The Motley Fool: “Marijuana Sales Just Jumped in California”
11/04/2018 - USA Today: “Future of legal marijuana: Canadian greenhouses could mean cheaper, safer pot”
10/20/2018 - The Motley Fool: “Colorado’s Marijuana Market Just Hit This Huge Milestone”
10/08/2018 - USA Today: “What is CBD? And why is the cannabis-derived ingredient on the rise for wellness products?”
10/03/2018 - The Green Rush Podcast: “Advising on the Green Wave”
9/30/2018 - Ad Week: ” CBD Marketers are High On Endorsements to Get Their Message Out”
9/24/2018 - CNBC: “Eyes of the global marijuana industry are on Canada as it legalizes recreational use”
9/24/2018 - CBC: “Canadian cannabis companies invest millions in Pablo Escobar’s home turf in Colombia”
9/21/2018 - Nightly Business Report Produced by CNBC: VIDEO: GreenWave Advisors Founder Matt Karnes Chimes in on Canadian Recreational Use Market
9/20/2018 - The Motley Fool: ” Will Aurora Cannabis Be The Next Marijuana Stock To Tap U.S. Investors”
9/19/2018 - Freedom Leaf: “The Meteoric Rise of Canada’s Legal Cannabis Industry”
9/14/2018 - The Street: “Bankers Are Getting More Comfortable With Cannabis”
9/13/2018 - Marijuana Business Daily: High Times Parent Hustles to Lure Cannabis Investors; Here’s What You Need to Know
8/28/2018 - Cheddar TV: VIDEO – GreenWave Advisors Founder Matt Karnes Featured on CannaBiz
8/22/2018 - Forbes: “Roll-Out Feels Slow, But California Could Sell $2.5 Billion Of Legal Weed This Year”
8/22/2018 - The Street: “Tilray Offers Test of Transitioning to Recreational Cannabis Use in Canada”
8/20/2018 - Green Market Report: “California Cannabis Tax Receipts Fall Short of Plans but MedMen Grabs 6% of Sales”
8/17/2018 - The Street: “MedMen sees traction in California despite market challenges”
8/09/2018 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Before Going Public, Marijuana Companies Should Consider These 5 Steps
8/01/2018 - The Street: “Insys Therapeutics Is a Pretend Cannabis Stock”
7/31/2018 - Forbes: ” WeWork For Weed: The Beauty Queen Of Cannabis Blockchain Tackles Co-Working”
7/18/2018 - High Times: “Cannabis Illicit Market Shrinking, New DEA Homeland Security Numbers Suggest
7/17/2018 - The Street: “Aurora Cannabis Inks Online Deal Shopify
7/13/2018 - The New York Times: “As Marijuana Goes Mainstream, Investors Rush In
7/09/2018 - The Street: “Canopy Growth Leads Cannabis Debt Bonanza”
7/04/2018 - Entrepreneur: “3 Challenges You’re Likely To Face Once You Open for Business”
6/28/2018 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Is CBD a Threat to THC-Focused Marijuana Companies”
6/26/2018 - The Street: “FDA Approval Puts GW Pharma, Three Other Cannabis-Related Names in the Spotlight”
6/26/2018 - Entrepreneur: “What Canada’s Legalization of Marijuana Means to the US, Eh”
6/22/2018 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Medical Marijuana vs Opioids in NY”
6/12/2018 - VIDEO – Cheddar TV: “Canada Weed Stocks to Watch”
6/07/2018 - VIDEO – CNBC: “Canada Set to Vote on Legal Weed”
4/27/2018 - USA Today: “Medical marijuana used pot’s emotional connection to spread nationally”
4/20/2018 - CNET: “Cannabis Club TV streams marijuana videos to dispensaries”
4/20/2018 - USA Today: “Snap a selfie with a 24-foot bong! Entrepreneurs dream up pot-tourism destinations”
3/27/2018 - Emerald Report: “How legalization is likely to bring cheaper cannabis to California”
3/09/2018 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Marijuana heavyweights Helix TCS, BiotrackTHC agree to merge”
2/15/2018 - Marijuana Business Daily: “A $1 billion cannabis company? Recent deals shed light on marijuana valuations”
2/01/2018 - Rolling Stone: “How the U.S. Government Is Profiting From Keeping Pot Illegal”
1/27/2018 - The Motley Fool: “Here’s How Big the Marijuana Market Could Be in Colorado in 2018”
1/26/2018 - Miami Herald: “Trump says America open for business. Marijuana industry asks “What about us?”
1/21/2018 - USA Today: “Marijuana money increasingly flowing to Republican lawmakers”
1/11/2018 - CNBC: “Restricted banking access for the marijuana industry may spell a boom for security business”
1/06/2018 - USA Today: “Marijuana sellers undeterred by threat of federal prosecution”
1/05/2018 - The Washington Post: “Marijuana stocks tumble after Jeff Sessions announces pot crackdown”
1/02/2018 - Playboy: “Can Cannabis Ever Disrupt the Alcohol Industry?”
12/31/2017 - Forbes: “Florida’s Medical Marijuana Industry Is Losing Its Bank, But Others Are Stepping In”
12/28/2017 - USA Today: “What California’s legalization of marijuana means for you”
12/28/2017 - USA Today: “Legal marijuana arriving in California after decades of underground dealing”
12/16/2017 - The Motley Fool: “Here’s How Big the U.S. Marijuana Market Could Be in 2018”
12/13/2017 - Leafly: “The Kid Won’t Quit the Company: Inside the Epic Battle for MassRoots”
12/05/2017 - Playboy: “The First Full-Service Cannabis-Infused Vacation is Here”
11/26/2017 - Forbes: “California Weed Entrepreneurs Will Make $5.2B In 2018 With Almost No Banks To Put It In”
11/16/2017 - The Globe and Mail: “The cryptocurrency craze – are digital coins on verge of going mainstream?”
11/13/2017 - Institutional Investor: “Wall Street’s Invasion of the Legal Weed Market”
11/09/2017 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Failed deal, red ink, dwindling sales put MassRoots on the ropes”
10/12/2017 - USA Today: “California’s marijuana farmers fear crops could go up in smoke”
10/12/2017 - FHM: “Predicting The Next State To Legalize Marijuana (With Experts Telling Us Why It’ll Happen)”
9/10/2017 - The Motley Fool: “U.S. Marijuana Sales Are Predicted to Hit $30 Billion by 2021, According to a New Report”
8/30/2017 - Forbes: “4 Fundamental Investment Tips For Up-And-Coming Rappers”
8/03/2017 - Cannabis Industry Journal: “Florida Medical Cannabis Market Growth Stymied By Red Tape”
8/02/2017 - Marijuana Business Daily: “New York’s next medical marijuana licensees leap into embattled market”
7/31/2017 - USA Today: “Marijuana’s legalization fuels black market in other states”
7/28/2017 - Marijuana Business Daily: ” Week in Review: Lawsuit to legalize cannabis, judge sidesteps Nevada dispute & High Times + Nasdaq”
6/14/2017 - The Motley Fool: “Will Donald Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions Undermine Legal Marijuana?”
6/10/2017 - The Motley Fool: “How Big Is the Marijuana Stock Opportunity in Cannabidiol?”
6/07/2017 - Marijuana Business Daily: “New York legal battle pits medical marijuana firms against state health department”
6/04/2017 - The Motley Fool: “Will the Marijuana Industry Really Be Bigger Than the NFL by 2020?”
5/18/2017 - CNBC: “How the Trump administration is affecting the multibillion-dollar marijuana industry”
5/08/2017 - Forbes: “The Marijuana Industry Is Getting Super-Sized”
4/20/2017 - USA Today: “Marijuana’s big day is here: ‘420’ celebrations ready to roll”
4/20/2017 - CNN: “This couple met through a dating app for marijuana users”
4/18/2017 - Yahoo Finance: “GreenWave’s Matt Karnes Talks About Cannabis Banking, Tax Burdens And Stocks To Watch”
4/17/2017 - Yahoo Finance: “GreenWave’s Matt Karnes Predicts Fully Legal Cannabis Markets In 8 New States By 2018”
4/10/2017 - The New York Times: “Legal Marijuana Ends at Airport Security, Even if It’s Rarely Stopped”
3/27/2017 - USA Today: “Marijuana equipment start-ups flourish as large rivals avoid legal pitfalls”
3/26/2017 - Fox Business News: “More Marijuana Sales Taxes Are Coming”
3/25/2017 - CNBC: “‘Don’t try to be Warren Buffett’ with pot stocks: Analyst”
3/19/2017 - Fox Business News: “Every State Could Legalize Marijuana by 2021”
3/15/2017 - Forbes: “Even If Trump Challenges The Marijuana Industry, The Market Could Hit $18 Billion By 2021”
2/27/2017 - Forbes: “Texas Could Lose Millions Of Tax Dollars If It Stalls Medical Marijuana”
2/24/2017 - CNBC: “Marijuana entrepreneurs try to stay calm after Spicer comments on weed”
2/16/2017 - Fortune: “Pro-Pot Lawmakers Launch a Congressional Cannabis Caucus”
2/14/2017 - Fox Business News: “Top 5 States for Marijuana Stocks”
1/29/2017 - Fox Business News: “How Big Is the Opportunity for Marijuana Stocks in Florida?”
1/27/2017 - Marijuana Biz Daily: “Week in Review: Marijuana industry trademarks, cannabis banking & Oregon rec sales”
1/22/2017 - Fox Business News: “How Big Could the Opportunity Be for Marijuana Stocks in California?”
1/17/2017 - Extract Suntimes: “Tips for successful cannabis investing in 2017”
1/14/2017 - Fox Business News: “Here’s How Big the Opportunity Could Be for Marijuana Stocks”
1/10/2017 - Benzinga.com : “Top Cannabis Industry Experts Share 17 Predictions For Marijuana Markets In 2017”
1/05/2017 - KARK TV: “How Many Marijuana Plants can Producers Grow in Arkansas?”
1/03/2017 - Adweek: “Why Marijuana Marketing Will Be Bigger Than Ever This Year”
12/26/2016 - LA Weekly: “What Does 2017 Hold for California’s Marijuana Economy?”
12/13/2016 - Forbes: “The Cannabis Market That Could Grow 700% By 2020”
12/05/2016 - Forbes: “Marijuana Industry Entrepreneurs Want Donald Trump To See Them As Job Creators”
12/02/2016 - CNBC: “Weed business set to be one of fastest growing job generators in US”
12/02/2016 - Crain’s New York Business: “New Yorkers with chronic pain will soon be able to treat it with medical marijuana”
11/19/2016 - Forbes: “PayQwick Aims to Be The PayPay of Pot”
11/09/2016 - The New York Times: “Marijuana Company Prepares to Cross State Lines, as Legally as Possible”
11/05/2016 - New York Post: “Why marijuana will be a ‘shadow’ business for a long time”
10/27/2016 - Cannabis Industry Journal: “Election Day is a Decisive Moment for the Cannabis Industry”
10/20/2016 - Crain’s Silicon Velley: “High finance: Tech firms, investors budding up to cannabis”
9/28/2016 - Forbes: “Retail Marijuana Could Hurt Medical Marijuana”
9/26/2016 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Chart: New York Medical Marijuana Patient Counts Rising, But Still Have Long Way to Go”
9/26/2016 - Cannabis Industry Journal: “California Poised to Make Huge Advances in Market Expansion and Regulation”
8/19/2016 - CFO Magazine: “Banking, Tax Regs Eat Into Marijuana Profits
8/12/2016 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Week in Review: Five Takeaways From the DEA’s Marijuana Decision”
8/10/2016 - CNBC: “Banking on Pot?”
6/17/2016 - The New York Times: “The First Big Company to Say It’s Serving the Legal Marijuana Trade? Microsoft”
4/20/2016 - Forbes: “Number Of Medical Marijuana Patients Drops In Places That Have Legalized Recreational Use"
3/17/2016 - U.S. News and World Report: “How to Invest in Marijuana Legalization”
3/17/2016 - GreenWave Advisors Reiterates $4.8 Billion U.S. Retail Marijuana Market in 2015
3/12/2016 - Business Insider: “How two guys from Stanford built the ‘iPhone of vaporizers”
2/15/2016 - Newsweek’s Special Edition, Weed 2016: The Beginning of the End for Pot Prohibition
2/04/2016 - The New York Times: “Legal Marijuana Sales Hit $5.4 Billion in 2015, Report Says”
1/13/2016 - Marijuana Business Daily: “A Marijuana First: Oakland Dispensary Shares To Be Publicly Traded”
1/12/2016 - CNBC: “New York’s pot program rolls out”
1/05/2016 - CNBC: “A look inside Manhattan’s first medical marijuana dispensary”
12/22/2015 - CNBC: “New York state’s marijuana start-ups gear up for sales”
12/21/2015 - Forbes: “Cannabis Testing Companies Get Green Light From BofA Merrill Lynch
12/11/2015 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Positive Merrill Lynch Report”
12/18/2015 - Cashinbis: “Wall Street & Silicon Valley Are ‘High’ On Cannabis Industry’s Future
11/20/2015 - CNET: “Snoop Dogg wants you to light up”
11/05/2015 - CNBC: “Emerald City start-ups seeing green”
11/05/2015 - GreenWave Advisors Increases U.S. Marijuana Industry Forecast to $25 Billion by 2020 In New Market Research Report
11/03/2015 - The Village Voice: “Why the Architect of New York’s Medical Marijuana Law Is Already Trying to Change It”
10/10/2015 - Market Watch: “Marijuana companies struggle to find a place to put their green”
9/25/2015 - The Patriot Ledger: “Pot shops slow in opening on South Shore”
9/11/2015 - CNBC: “Manhattan medical pot dispensary to open on 14th St.
8/18/2015 - Marijuana Business Daily: “Tuatara Capital Raises $26M to Invest in Cannabis Companies
8/07/2015 - The Herald Tribune: “Regulate Florida’ marijuana initiative would legalize the plant for adults “
8/03/2015 - New York Business Journal: “What banking problem? 3 questions Union Square’s first medical marijuana shop asked its bank before expanding”
7/31/2015 - Marijuana Business Daily: “CDC Weighs in on Edibles”
7/30/2015 - The Village Voice: “New York’s Medical Marijuana Licenses Expected to Be Awarded by Friday”
7/29/2015 - Reuters: “In rise of U.S. vape shops, owners eye new marijuana market”
7/19/2015 - Forbes: “Top Ten New Technology Opportunities In Legal Cannabis
7/15/2015 - Crain’s New York Business: “Facing long odds, weed growers pull out the stops
7/15/2015 - MarketWatch: “Marijuana could be a $35 billion market by 2020
6/30/2015 - Fortune: “Medical marijuana firms in New York get ready to grow
6/16/2015 - GreenWave Advisors, LLC Issues Report on Marijuana Lab Testing
6/04/2015 - Bloomberg Business: “America’s Quality Pot Is Changing the Drug War”
6/01/2015 - National Geographic Magazine: “Marijuana’s Moment”
4/30/2015 - Foundation & Endowment Intelligence: “Global AgInvesting: Legitimizing Marijuana Investment”
4/26/2015 - New York Post: “Legalized cannabis isn’t good business – yet”
3/18/2015 - CNBC: “Medical Marijuana Business May Have Met its Match”
3/16/2015 - GreenWave Advisors, LLC Issues Report on The State of Colorado
3/02/2015 - Seeking Alpha: “Is Now The Time To Pounce On The Pot Business?
1/20/2015 - The Huffington Post: “5 Biotech Trends to Watch in 2015, According to Five Top Biotech Experts”
1/08/2015 - The Washington Post: “Pot firm lands multimillion dollar investment from fund with stakes in Facebook, Airbnb”
12/15/2014 - Investing.Com: “4 Companies Rising on Medical Marijuana’s Increasing Buzz
12/15/2014 - "CannaInsider.com Estimates 200,000 New Jobs in the Cannabis Industry by 2015"
12/03/2014 - The Huffington Post: “5 Things High Net Worth Individuals Need To Know About Medical Marijuana”
11/18/2014 - TIME: “Official Bob Marley Marijuana is Coming”
10/26/2014 - United Press International: “The marijuana industry could soon make more revenue than the NFL”
10/23/2014 - The Washington Post: “The marijuana industry could be could be bigger than the NFL by 2020″
10/23/2014 - The Street.Com: “Despite Legalization, Pot Use to Lag Alcohol, Cigarettes”
10/23/2014 - The Huffington Post: “Marijuana Industry Could be Worth $35 Billion in 2020, If All States And Feds Legalize It”
10/22/2014 - Crain’s New York Business: “Medical Marijuana Markets”
10/22/2014 - New York Business Journal: “Just how much medical marijuana could New Yorkers use? Here’s an educated guess”
10/21/2014 - PRESS RELEASE - GreenWave Advisors, LLC releases “The GreenWave Report:: State of the Emerging Marijuana Industry – Current Trends and Projections”