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A Czech immigrant named Walter Lappert launched Lappert’s ice cream in 1983. Little did the hippie entrepreneur know that his dessert storefront would serve as a stepping stone for his grand son Isaac to launch a cannabis-infused ice cream brand called Isaac's Cannabis Creamery.
"It's super premium ice cream made with 16% buttermilk content, which is delicious fat," said the 24-year-old Lappert. “It’s not being whipped up in my sink without any bacteria...

Bethenny Frankel is reportedly joining the ranks of Bob Marley’s family with her intent to launch Skinnygirl Marijuana that suppresses rather than activates the appetite during use. Critics are already slamming the reality tv star for being greedy and a bad role model. 
“It is an outrageous, immoral, greedy money-making scheme that Bethenny Frankel is perpetrating,” said Carole Lieberman, a psychiatrist and author of the 2010 book Bad Girls. “She is simply and...

We know Tony Alfiere as uber cool Ripley's Formula (THC drink "eases the day") CEO but it's Tony's broad cannabis industry experience that underlies his new guidebook for marijuana entrepreneurs. The industry's inspiring growth rate is a magnet for would be pot moguls; Tony's Pot Inc. is their bible.
Tony Alfiere Ripley's Formula Potrepreneurship Interview IP Staff: Why did you write your book Pot Inc. and who is it for?
Tony Alfiere: I wrote Pot Inc. for both veteran cannabis...

According to the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the total value of the world’s marijuana market was more than $140 billion. In the United States alone the black market cannabis industry is valued at nearly $50 billion, according to research done by Dutchess Capital – the majority of which is provided by the Mexican drug cartels.
The legal cannabis industry, spread across the 23 states that have legalized it in some form, has a value just north of $2 billion currently...

Another one of the interesting products featured at the Houston Marijuana Invesment Conference this week is a new cannabis-infused beverage called Ripley's Formula.  The drink isn't, of course, legal in Texas, so my student Griffin Scheumack didn't get a chance to sample it, but he reports that there are some positives to the new product:
    Ripley’s Formula debuted at the Marijuana Investment Convention this last weekend. This "magical elixir product," say...