As the cannabis business arena expands at a rapid rate, investors, Wall Street, the marijuana community and the public in general are all wondering what it will eventually mean.
And the world is embracing cannabis more and more. It’s likely that every November election in America from now until 2030 will include new states in the Union adopting legal cannabis.
Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that eight medical schools—including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Penn State College of Medicine—have been approved by the state to conduct medical marijuana research.
In December 2015, with much fanfare and political grandstanding, the Pittsburgh City Council announced it had passed an ordinance decriminalizing cannabis.