The biggest marijuana-related measure this election season is in Colorado, where voters will decide whether the state should implement special taxes on the recreational cannabis industry. A lot is at stake. Proposition AA calls for a 15% excise tax on wholesale...
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) has accepted 136 applications for licenses to operate recreational marijuana retail shops since the process began in October, representing about a quarter of those eligible to apply. Under the law, only existing medical...
Efforts to legalize and regulate marijuana in Maine and New Hampshire sputtered out this week, dashing hopes for an expansion of the recreational cannabis industry in 2013.
The recreational marijuana market in Colorado and Washington could be substantially larger than initial predictions, with the local customer pool alone hitting a combined 3.1 million in the two states. A new poll found that 26% of Americans said they would purchase...
The Vermont Department of Public Safety has conditionally approved a medical marijuana dispensary in the town of Brattleboro. The dispensary - called Southern Vermont Wellness, Inc. - will be the fourth and final MMJ center to open in the state as part of Vermont’s...
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office is stepping up efforts to close dispensaries it deems to be in violation of Proposition D, a set of rules aimed at curbing the city’s rapidly growing marijuana industry. But some centers targeted by the city say they are...
A conservative advocacy group is preparing to fight a push to legalize medical marijuana. Amy Ronshausen - the interm deputy director of Save Out Society From Drugs - released a statement Tuesday saying that "crude marijuana does not meet the standards of modern...
Marijuana tourism companies are preparing for the start of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado on Jan. 1, promoting themed packages that include visits to retail marijuana shops and access to concerts and parties. One company - Get Elevated - is offering a...
Arizona dispensaries could sell marijuana extracts and popular types of edibles without fear of legal repercussions if a lawsuit filed Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union is successful.
Dispensaries in rural towns face a series of business challenges that shops in cities and other urban areas do not. From unfriendly small-town politics to zoning issues, regulatory obstacles have driven most of the business into cities. But even when regulations are...
New Jersey’s second medical marijuana dispensary opened Monday in the township of Egg Harbor, roughly five miles west of Atlantic City. The clinic, called Compassionate Care Foundation, grows all of its marijuana in a former warehouse of Trump Casinos. The move ends a...
Government officials in Solano County, California, will meet next week to discuss reversing a ban on medicinal marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated areas of the county. Located in the Northeast Bay Area, the county currently outlaws dispensaries in unincorporated...
