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New York MJ Business Reveals Banking Partner

One of the 50 largest credit unions in the United States is banking legalized medical marijuana money. Ari Hoffnung, CEO of Vireo Health of New York, revealed to the Albany Business Review that his company has a deposit account with the State Employees Federal Credit...

Privateer Wins Major Public Relations Award

PR Week, a major advertising magazine, awarded cannabis equity firm Privateer Holdings and its public relations company, Colehour and Cohen, its top honor for “Investor/Financial Communications Campaign of the Year.” Thursday night’s announcement is yet another boost...

Effort to Expand New York’s MMJ Program Underway

Several bills proposed in New York seek to expand the list of qualifying conditions, double the number of dispensaries, and allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to recommend patients for receiving medical cannabis, according to the Journal News. Backers...

Licensing Delay Could Hurt Oregon Extract Companies

The Oregon Health Authority plans to launch the licensing application process for commercial extract companies on April 1, and in the meantime, is warning medical marijuana dispensaries not to accept cannabis extracts from unlicensed processors. The wait will likely...

Pennsylvania poised to legalize medical marijuana

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a medical marijuana legalization bill late Wednesday afternoon, greatly increasing the chances that the state will green-light the use and sale of MMJ. The bill cleared the House by a 149-43 vote. It must...

Alaska Releases MJ Business Applicant List

Nearly 200 marijuana business licenses applications have been submitted in Alaska since the state opened its application process on Feb. 24, according to a state list. As of March 14, there were 47 retail dispensary applications, 89 “standard cultivation site”...

California Court Ruling Could Halt MMJ Deliveries in LA

In a ruling that could adversely affect hundreds of medical marijuana businesses in Los Angeles, a three-judge panel of the state’s Second District Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling to block an MMJ delivery smartphone app. The judges agreed that marijuana...

Ohio Medical Cannabis Initiative Needs Work, Says AG

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has declined to give the green light to a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana, stating that the summary language was not a fair or truthful reflection of the proposal. In a statement, DeWine cited three problems...

Canadian MMJ Company to Expand U.S. Footprint

A publicly traded Canadian medical marijuana company is boosting its U.S. presence by entering into an agreement to acquire two marijuana licenses – one production, one processing – from a cannabis company in Washington State. Marapharm Ventures, which trades on the...

Study Results Send GW Pharma’s Stock Soaring

A British maker of cannabis-based drugs revealed some sorely needed good news on Monday, announcing that an epilepsy medicine it created has successfully treated a severe form of epilepsy in children, according to Reuters. In a clinical study, GW Pharmaceuticals said...

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