What Are the Best Marijuana Events in 2017?
Whether you are an activist, a cannabis industry professional, or a new or veteran cannabis consumer (or all of the above!) attending marijuana events will help with furthering this move- ment and with education and awareness about the cannabis plant itself.
It is certainly an interesting time in history for marijuana…regardless of how people feel about it. Here are a few must-attend events for the new year. We will definitely update this list as more cannabis events surface. We hope you find one, or several, that are a good fit for you!
January, 2017
• NCIA Quarterly Caucuses – various locations • Oregon Cannabis Industry Mixer and Networking Event – Portland, OR • High Times Business Summit – Los Angeles, CA
February, 2017
• CCC 3.0 – Portland, OR • CannaCon – Seattle, WA
March, 2017
• MJIC California Cannabis Business Expo – San Diego, CA • Cannabis Cultivation Conference – Oakland, CA • Cannagrow Expo – Reno, NV • Cannabiz Day – Orlando, FL
April, 2017
• Imperious Expo – Phoenix, AZ • High Times Southern California Cannabis Cup – San Bernardino, CA • Thrive Cannabis Conference – Miami, FL • World Medical Cannabis Conference and Expo – Pittsburgh, PA • New England Cannabis Convention – Boston, MA
May, 2017
• Spring 2017 Marijuana Business Conference and Expo – Washington D.C.
June, 2017
• High Times Northern California Cannabis Cup – Santa Rosa, CA
• NICA Cannabis Business Summit – Oakland, CA • Cannabis World Congress & Business Expositions (CWCBExpo) – New York, NY
July, 2017
• Dispensary Next Conference and Expo – Denver, CO
August, 2017
• Leafly Cannafest – Grand Forks, B.C (Canada) • Seattle Hempfest – Seattle, WA • Cannabis Science Conference – Portland, OR
September, 2017
• Cannabis World Congress & Business Expositions (CWCBExpo) – Los Angeles, CA
October, 2017
• Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo (CWCBExpo) – Boston, MA • Cannagrow Expo – Denver, CO
November, 2017
• Fall 2017 Marijuana Business Conference & Expo – Las Vegas, NV
December, 2017
• Help us find events to list!
About the Author
Leah Maurer is a happily married Portland mom to 3 young boys. She is one of the owners of The Weed Blog and contributes content regularly for the site. She also does some freelance writing, helped launch and is still very active in Portland’s Women Grow chapter, and is the Branding and Outreach Manager for Yerba Buena Farms. Leah is a cannabis legalization activ- ist and hopes to see the prohibition of cannabis end on a federal level, and to see the cannabis conversation normalized across America.