Massachusetts voters are split down the center over whether to legalize marijuana, although the anti-legalization campaign appears to have gained ground, a new poll shows. The Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll of 500 Bay State voters found that 45.8% opposed...
New Mexico's state auditor has asked two state agencies to look into the actions of a local medical marijuana executive who doubles as an accountant and is accused of a possible conflict of interest tied to her audit work. Kevin Sourisseau,...
Colorado state lawmakers have rejected legislation to certify organic marijuana, because of worries the label would imply MJ is healthy. A senate panel this week killed the bill 4-3. It would have made Colorado the first state in the nation to offer organic...
New Hampshire’s medical marijuana market is now officially up and running. The first two dispensaries in the state have opened their doors, nearly three years after New Hampshire lawmakers legalized medical cannabis. The move brings another new MMJ market into the...
A veteran entrepreneur has launched a Denver facility, Good Life Colorado, that will focus on helping young and established cannabis-infused products companies expand. Housed in a 1,500-square-foot space, Good Life will offer companies space to develop their products...
Hawaii’s eight medical marijuana license winners have their work cut out for them as they enter what could be a tough initial market in the state.
The winners – announced last week – are allowed to open July 15, but it is unlikely they will have their first harvests ready by then.
Germany, the world’s fifth-biggest economy, is expected to legalize medical marijuana in 2017. The German cabinet approved a bill Monday that would allow medical cannabis to be used by seriously ill patients who have consulted with a physician and have no other...
Supporters of marijuana legalization in Vermont are in mourning after the state’s House of Representatives rejected an adult-use cannabis bill their Senate colleagues approved in March. The lopsided 121-28 vote means Vermont, for now, will not...
The Canadian city of Vancouver launched its crackdown on unlicensed medical marijuana dispensaries, with 22 storefronts agreeing to close and city inspectors ticketing 44 others that defied an order to do so, according to Canadian press reports. Vancouver became the...
The Fourth Corner Credit Union in Colorado has appealed a federal judge's decision to dismiss a lawsuit the upstart financial institution had filed in an effort to provide financial services to cannabis companies. U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson in January threw...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily suspended trading in Pineapple Express, a cannabis consulting and investment company headquartered in Los Angeles. The agency said it did so "because of recent, unusual and...
In 2009, 55-year-old California resident Bob Leber visited a dispensary for the first time after receiving a medical marijuana recommendation from his doctor to help with nausea.
“A kid handed me an edible with 75 milligrams of THC and said ‘you’ll be out for two days,’” Leber recalled. “That wasn’t what I was trying to do. I was trying to take care of my medical issue and hoping I wouldn’t get stoned.”
