Tag: medical marijuana
Cannabis protector rolling out transport division
June 9, 2014Amy Canfield
DENVER—Securing the increasing number of legal marijuana growing sites and sales outlets in the U.S. poses a unique set of challenges, including transporting the product. Canna Security America is launching Cloverton Group to help deal with that.Still in the process of obtaining full funding for a national rollout of the new division, Canna Security, which provides security to 350 facilities, will provide armed guards and transportation vehicles with bulletproof glass, CEO Dan Williams told...
DirectView explores legal marijuana vertical
February 26, 2014Leif Kothe
Though 18 states had previously legalized marijuana for medical use, it was the pair of initiatives passed in Colorado and Washington that legalized the substance recreationally that seems to have made the security industry more attentive to what kind of possibilities lie ahead in this new and rapidly expanding market.
It's not difficult to see why. Those operating dispensaries and growing facilities will require security solutions for many of the same reasons an end user at a jewelry store would:...
Canna Security looks to grow with $1m investment
May 8, 2013Martha Entwistle
DENVER—ArcView Investments, a group of high-worth angel investors, on May 3 announced that "five companies received at least $1 million in commitments." Among those five companies is Canna Security, a company dedicated to protecting legal marijuana facilities.“We opened Canna Security in 2009 and business has taken off. We just expanded to Washington state,” Daniel Williams, president of Canna Security, told Security Systems News.Funds will be used for bringing on full-time technicians,...