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  Medical Marijuana Will Create 1,500 Jobs in Arizona

  May 13, 2013 at 9:04 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  When Arizona voters approved the use of medical marijuana in 2010, Steve Cottrell saw a way to combine his laboratory background and his interest in the plant he’d been studying since his 11-year-old son died of cancer more than a decade before. Cottrell is now the owner of AZ Med Testing, a medical marijuana testing laboratory in Tempe. Dispensaries pay Cottrell and his business partner, Brenda Perkins, to test marijuana samples for mold and pesticides. “We’re making money, but we [...]

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  Arizona Study Says Medical Marijuana Will Create 1,500 Jobs

  April 23, 2013 at 6:45 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  A new study says that an estimated 1,500 jobs will be created by Arizona’s new medical marijuana industry. Tim Hogan, a researcher with Arizona State University who wrote the study, said he used figures from Oregon’s established medical marijuana industry to estimate the size of Arizona’s market, reports Julia Shumway of Cronkite News Service. “It’s a pretty simple industry,” Hogan said. “There’s not too much nuance. The main driving mechanism is how many patients.” Hogan’s study, paid for by the Regulated [...]

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  Medical Marijuana Industry To Grow to 6 Billion By 2018

  April 15, 2013 at 9:23 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  With more than twice as many lobbyists in Washington as Congressmen, the pharmaceutical industry remains America’s most profitable, conducting 80 percent of the world’s research and development on new drug therapies for everything from the common cold to HIV. However, a subset of the legal drug industry that requires no research and development beyond undergraduate-level botany – marijuana – is growing rapidly into the sort of industry involving serious investor attention. In fact, San Diego-based Medical Marijuana, the industry’s largest business, is [...]

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