Finally, there's a string of good news for New Jersey's medical marijuana industry. Last week, the owners of a planned dispensary spoke at a council meeting in Bellmawr, addressing community concerns and outlining their plans going forward. The dispensary - called...
The marijuana industry could get help on one of its thorniest problems - banking - in an indirect way from the emergence of the adult-use cannabis markets in Colorado and Washington. Both states are set to begin accepting applications for marijuana business licenses...
An event held by The ArcView Group in Denver this week is expected to result in more than $1 million in deals between investors and cannabis companies from around the country when the dust settles. But the total could have been higher - perhaps significantly so - if...
At the start of 2013, the future seemed exceedingly bright for medical marijuana businesses in San Diego. The city's new mayor, Bob Filner, went to bat big-time for the industry, pushing for regulations that would allow dispensaries to operate in San Diego, speaking...
And then there were 158. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has eliminated nearly two dozen applicants for dispensary licenses in the first round of the process, leaving a still-crowded field to compete for a limited number of permits and paving the way for...
Imagine if locally licensed shops selling cannabis to adults for recreational use were allowed to crop up in the shadow of the very agencies responsible for spearheading the nation's decades-long war on marijuana. Several years ago the idea would've seemed very...
A committee created to craft regulations on medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon has set an aggressive timeline for the rule-making process, saying it wants to give entrepreneurs plenty of time to read and understand the guidelines before the state begins...
Entrepreneurs who want to sell medical cannabis in Sin City will have to wait at least six months to apply for a business license - and perhaps much longer to actually open a dispensary. The Las Vegas City Council this week voted unanimously in favor of a measure that...
Advocates and cannabis evangelists play important roles in getting state-level medical marijuana laws passed via the legislature and the ballot box. But building support among lawmakers and voters, funding related campaigns and writing workable proposals to get a law...
Just days after the governor of Illinois signed off on the state's medical cannabis law, a clinic focused on helping patients get MMJ cards when the program is up and running announced it was open for business. Talk about hitting the ground running. The opening of...
Ask cannabis professionals and advocates what they think about last week's announcement from the Department of Justice, and you'll likely get an answer filled with superlatives. Some are calling it the biggest development for the cannabis cause in decades and a...
This week's earthshaking announcement by the Department of Justice paints a brighter picture of the industry's future, opens the door for legalization in more states and increases the possibility of long-term, fundamental change. But there are also some signs that...
