The chair of a key U.S. Senate committee declined Tuesday to commit to considering legislation that would provide federal protections to financial institutions serving state-legal marijuana businesses, which is dubbed the SAFE Banking Act. Sen. Mike Crapo, a...
Roughly 50 unlicensed medical cannabis firms in Michigan won another extension to stay open, with a judge ruling they can do so as long as their state license applications are pending. This is just the latest reprieve for unlicensed MMJ...
Massachusetts regulators signed off on preliminary plans for recreational marijuana home delivery, but the program would limit participation in the first two years to applicants that fit under the state's social equity and economic empowerment...
Colorado legislators passed a bill to open the state’s $1.5 billion-a-year cannabis industry to outside investors and capital such as publicly held companies and large venture funds. The measure, which comes a year after former Gov. John Hickenlooper rejected similar...
Missouri medical marijuana regulators announced they plan to issue 60 cultivation, 86 processing and 192 dispensary licenses in the state's initial MMJ permitting round. Businesses can obtain applications online June 4. The state will accept...
Massachusetts regulators warned they’ll crack down on any marijuana businesses that try to skirt license limits - and then look to mislead the state about ownership relationships. The warning by the state's Cannabis Control Commission followed...
Legislators in Washington state passed several cannabis bills of interest to the marijuana industry in the final days of the session that concludes by Sunday. The measures include one that reforms enforcement procedures and another that allows MJ product labels to...
A Denver federal judge denied an early motion to toss out most aspects of a landmark cannabis patent lawsuit, allowing the case to proceed toward a jury trial. The suit, filed last summer by Colorado-based United Cannabis Corp. (UCANN), alleges Pure Hemp Collective,...
A marijuana industry pioneer alleges that High Times infringed on her Women of Weed federally registered trademark and did so in a "sexualized" way. Ah Warner, founder and CEO of Seattle-based Cannabis Basics, also said High Times has ignored repeated requests to...
Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill that would establish a limited medical marijuana sales and taxation program to treat debilitating illnesses and conditions. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 in favor of the bill after a public hearing. The bill now moves to...
U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Colorado Democrat, introduced legislation six years ago to provide federal protection to financial institutions that serve state-legal marijuana businesses. No one in Congress would give him the time of day. “Every time you brought marijuana...
U.S. cannabis reform efforts have seen movement recently with a House committee's endorsement of a banking bill and Attorney General William Barr's comments that a federal shift would be preferable to the current "intolerable" situation. But the progress that...
