Good news for Real Estate’s Alternative Investment sector. For the first time ever, a provision protecting state medical marijuana laws is being included in base funding legislation for the U.S. Department of Justice. President Trump and both houses of Congress support Sens. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) and Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) new legislation which will exempt state-legal marijuana activity from the provisions of the federal Controlled...

For decades, the US has been the bastion of innovation and more recently, technological creativity that has fueled startup ventures. On closer examination, it’s interesting to find that a high-proportion of the ventures are credited to immigrants. A recent article on Axios.com reported that of the 87 startups worth at least $ 1 billion in 2016, more than half were founded or co-founded by US immigrants. The most highly represented country was...