By Omar Sacirbey New federal rules allowing small businesses to tap ordinary folks will give upstart marijuana companies a sorely needed alternative to traditional sources of financing such as angel investors and venture capitalists. The Securities and Exchange...
Dispensaries in Michigan may be on their last legs after a state court of appeals effectively ruled that medical marijuana patients only can get their medicine by growing it themselves or from registered caregivers who are allowed to assist up to five patients. The...
The medical marijuana market moved towards a significant expansion and greater legitimacy after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to allow Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana to veterans in states where it’s legal. [include_post...
Federal agents raided one of Montana's largest medical marijuana dispensaries, sending shockwaves through the state's already withering MMJ industry. Drug Enforcement Administration agents were seen Wednesday carrying items from the Four Corners location of Montana...
A marijuana conviction often can disqualify you from receiving a cannabis business license, but in Oakland it can give you an advantage over applicants with clean records. The Oakland City Council passed a first-of-its-kind measure Tuesday night, the Equity Permit...
By Omar Sacirbey Louisiana is moving toward becoming the nation's 25th state to create a workable medical marijuana program, which would position it as an MMJ beachhead in the South. State lawmakers this week passed legislation that removes a major impediment to a...
A licensing logjam is preventing dozens of medical marijuana dispensary applicants in Massachusetts from tapping into a surging market for new patients. “The application process is completely jammed up ... and that’s not fair to patients who’ve waited for years for...
Meriwether Group, a leading Oregon brand-building firm, has taken an ownership stake in one of the state’s best known cannabis cultivators, Hifi Farms. Portland-based Meriweather will serve as business advisers for HiFi, calling the deal an opportunity to get involved...
The marijuana industry could generate up to $28 billion in tax revenues for federal, state and local governments if Uncle Sam legalized cannabis, according to a report from the nonprofit Tax Foundation. The conservative-leaning organization estimates revenues would...
The amount of marijuana allowed to be grown by state-licensed producers in Washington State is enough to meet the state’s medical and recreational demand, according to a study released May 13 by the Cannabis Law and Policy Project at the University of Washington Law...
At 24, Hillary Peckham is probably one of the youngest chief operating officers in the cannabis industry. She’s also confronting a medical marijuana market that’s one of the of the toughest in the nation – one that began at a snail-like pace.
Peckham is COO of Etain Health, a New York MMJ company.Â
The family of a Denver woman who was shot and killed by her husband in 2014 after he consumed cannabis-infused candy is suing the manufacturer of the edible and the store that sold it for wrongful death.
