An Overview Of The Voluntary Carbon Market – Forbes

It’s no secret that organizations, businesses and NPOs can effectively lower their own carbon footprints with some simple steps like increasing energy efficiency, optimizing their logistics or simply auditing and adjusting their behaviors to reduce their carbon impacts. While the compliance markets are regulated by mandatory national, regional or international carbon reduction organizations, the voluntary […]

A Leak Reveals A Republican-Led Bill To Federally Legalize And Tax Marijuana – Forbes

The Food and Drug Administration would be instead limited in its regulatory authority. Furthermore, the draft bill would protect veterans from discrimination in federal hiring due to their cannabis use, and doctors with the U.S. Mace, who took office earlier this year, was the only Republican lawmaker to support the Marijuana Research bill to conduct […]

Crypto Price Prediction: Bitcoin Could Lose Its Crown To Ethereum By 2022 Even After … – Forbes

The bitcoin price rally comes after ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, soared to never-before-seen highs last week. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened within the cycle,” Rahul Rai, the co-head of market neutral at BlockTower Capital, told Insider. “Bitcoin is a store of value, it’s digital gold,” said Rai. As well as demand for ethereum […]

Canada House: Where Veterans Are Helping Veterans Gain Access To Medical Cannabis – Forbes

In North America, it is estimated that between 10 and 20 percent of veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder in any given year, a mental health condition for which there are very few treatment options. At a network of medical cannabis clinics in Canada founded by retired Sargeants Fabian Henry and Michael Southwell, staff are […]

JPMorgan To Restrict Trading In Some U.S. Cannabis Stocks – Forbes

cannabis firms that have a “direct nexus to marijuana-related activities” and are not listed on the Nasdaq, the New York Stock Exchange or the Toronto Stock Exchange. Under the new policy, JPMorgan will no longer permit new purchases or short positions in such “plant-touching” cannabis business stocks beginning on November 8. Steve Hawkins, CEO of […]

Dwayne Johnson Latest Who Wants Real Guns Banned From Film Sets After ‘Rust’ Killing. Here Are The Others.

His decision will likely “kick-off a domino effect of safe decision-making across Hollywood productions,” according to Variety. Dave Cortese’s bill would apply to “any kind of gun capable of setting off gunpowder, which is used for real bullets and blanks,” according to Deadline. I’m a breaking news reporter for Forbes based in my native New […]

Bitcoin Mining Stocks In North America Surge As Companies Press Their Advantage – Forbes

China’s broad Bitcoin mining expulsion this year, coupled with its most-serious crypto ban to date,  is a clear inflection point in the nascent-yet-growing Bitcoin space. In the subsequent fallout, North America—particularly, the United States—emerged as the dominant mining hub around the world. Though this data from Cambridge’s Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index is imperfect; it leans […]

Crypto Price Prediction: Bitcoin Could Hit $100,000 Before The End Of 2021—But Lacks … – Forbes

The bitcoin price rocketed into 2021, soaring to around $65,000 per bitcoin before crashing back to $30,000 in July. Alongside bitcoin’s rally, ethereum has also charged higher, surging amid widespread adoption of ethereum-based decentralized finance . Ethereum’s growing list of use-cases, combined with a hotly-anticipated upgrade that is reducing supply and that developers hope will […]

Why Police Can Ruin Confiscated Marijuana, Even If It’s Legal—And Why They Don’t Have …

But as civil actions Sutula filed to have the cannabis returned wound its way through the courts, the cannabis simply sat around in an evidence locker—attracting bugs, mold, and slowly but surely becoming totally worthless. In August 2018, in a case titled Smith vs. A state law proposed in 2014 that would have mandated “reasonable […]

Study Finds Medical Marijuana May Help Treat Depression And Anxiety And Improve Sleep – Forbes

Depression affects more than 300 million people globally, according to statistics from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, making it one of the most debilitating medical conditions in the world. “Anxiety and depressive disorders are highly prevalent,” Erin L. As an alternative to commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals, many people with anxiety and depression turn to cannabis […]

Is Your Marijuana Vaporizer Leaching Toxic Heavy Metals? It’s Possible, Study Claims. – Forbes

And although at least one dedicated anti-marijuana legalization group repeatedly claimed—very falsely, as it turned out—that several people were sickened with EVALI after using products purchased from legal cannabis dispensaries, nearly all reported cases came from states with no legal cannabis. That may have been so with EVALI, but vaporizer pens are not risk-free. MILAN, […]

Will This Generation Of “Climate Tech” Be Different? – Forbes

New funds devoted specifically to climate have launched at an astonishing rate in 2021: from blue-chip venture capital firms like Union Square Ventures, from large private equity players like TPG and General Atlantic, from a whole new breed of climate-specific VCs like Lowercarbon Capital. Between 2006 and 2011, the field of “cleantech” underwent one of […]

Somehow, Marijuana Legalization Is Making The Annual “Marijuana-Tainted Halloween … – Forbes

Whether categorized as “remix culture” or “logo-jacking” or something else, underground markets of all kinds—fashion, food, music—are full of derivative references to mainstream brands. But James wasn’t worried about copyright infringement. According to the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, science has yet to record a single death attributable solely to cannabis overdose. As columnist Jacob […]

The Next Shiba Inu? Facebook Meta Sends The Price Of This Minor Bitcoin Rival Soaring … – Forbes

The shiba inu price has surged almost 1,000% this last month alone, far outpacing bitcoin’s mere 50% rally. Decentraland, launched in 2019 after raising $25 million in its 2017 initial coin offering and described as a metaverse built on the blockchain, has this week seen traders pile into its mana token due to interest surrounding […]