A 6,000-square-foot vape lounge for medical marijuana users that opened recently in Canada has averaged 110 customers a day in its first week of business, according to its owners. Higher Limits - located in Windsor, Ontario - generates revenues via a $5 charge to...
An economist at a major investment bank is estimating in a new report that Canada’s marijuana market could surpass $7 billion annually - or about $10 billion in Canadian dollars - if legalization proceeds there. CIBC World Markets economist Avery Shenfeld based the...
A subsidiary of Canada’s largest medical marijuana grower announced it is lowering its MMJ prices to $5 per gram, about a third lower than the average price in the country of $7.50 per gram. Bedrocan Canada, which is owned by Ontario-based Canopy Growth Corporation,...
A marijuana legalization group in Vermont has unveiled a television ad featuring a white-bearded, bow-tied former state attorney general who laments the pitfalls of prohibition and urges marijuana legalization. The ad, “Time to End Prohibition (Again),” begins airing...
By Omar Sacirbey
Hannah Byron – who took the reins of Maryland’s medical marijuana program a year ago and officially steps down this week – shares her views on the state’s MMJ program, what makes for a winning application and the climate for cannabis businesses.
A developer and his partners plan to turn part of a former food-processing plant in Tacoma, Washington State, into a hub for cannabis companies. George Heidgerken and his partners in a company called That Other Stuff recently bought the former Nalley Fine Foods plant...
A Colorado man is asking the state’s attorney general to investigate officials in the town of Palisade, who he accuses in a lawsuit of creating an illegal monopoly by limiting the number of medical marijuana businesses to one. If the lawsuit succeeds, it could become...
Connecticut has announced that three new medical marijuana dispensaries will open sometime in early summer, according to the state’s Department of Consumer Protection. The new dispensaries bring the total to nine in Connecticut, which also has four cultivation...
Travis Maurer, a prominent marijuana activist who played a major role in getting marijuana legalized in Oregon, is embroiled in legal issues over two different business ventures. The larger of the two lawsuits involves a partnership to start a legal dispensary and...
Seattle is moving to heighten enforcement of the state's recreational marijuana law by targeting illegal delivery services, according to KING News. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis board has estimated that black market marijuana accounts for about 28% of...
Marijuana business owners in Illinois say they need to see 20,000 to 30,000 customers in the next six to 12 months to stabilize what they worry is a struggling industry, according to the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago. So far, about 4,000 patients have registered...
The group behind last year's failed bid to legalize marijuana in Ohio will dissolve completely, despite vowing to take another shot at legalization in 2016. ResponsibleOhio co-founder Jimmy Gould said the group's leaders have determined that...
