Medical marijuana advocates in Fort Collins, Colorado, have succeeded where their counterparts in San Diego failed, gathering enough signatures to get a key cannabis measure on the ballot this fall. Supporters of a proposal to overturn a recent marijuana dispensary...
Will California ever overhaul its medical cannabis rules and regulations to ensure that legitimate businesses can survive? Not this year, at least. A proposal to regulate dispensaries in California and allow cities to collect taxes on medical marijuana sales failed to...
As if the medical marijuana industry needs another challenge. Last week, we published an exclusive story about a move by the MMJ industry's primary credit card processor to stop handling Visa and MasterCard transactions made at cannabis centers as of July 1. We never...
The Los Angeles medical cannabis industry will have to wait another month for a verdict on its near-term future. City Council members delayed a vote this morning on two significant MMJ proposals until late July, a move that was widely expected. One of the proposals...
The fate of medical marijuana businesses in Los Angeles hangs in the balance today, with local leaders set to take up a hugely controversial issue that will reshape - and possibly decimate - the city's MMJ industry. Or not. Los Angeles City Council members are...
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of weekly updates about the National Marijuana Business Conference, which will be held Nov. 8 and 9 in Denver. These updates will feature news about the conference, including new speakers and short profiles of MMJ...
Two proposals to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio have lost momentum and are now on the verge of sputtering out, dashing hopes that the state will pass MMJ laws in 2012. The lack of support shows the dangers of having competing proposals on the table at the same...
With everything on the line and their immediate future at stake, medical marijuana advocates and MMJ professionals in San Diego went out with a whimper. The city's beleaguered medical cannabis community failed to muster up enough support for a proposal that could have...
Drive around Denver and you'll see a fair share of billboards, sign twirlers and banners advertising super-cheap ounces, half-price joints and discounted edibles. Outdoor advertising is a major piece of the advertising strategy and a key competitive tool for many...
The main national company handling payment processing services for the medical marijuana industry will no longer accept Visa and MasterCard transactions from dispensaries, according to information obtained by MMJ Business Daily. Electronic Merchant Systems (EMS) -...
There are some signs that fears are growing about a Big Pharma invasion in the marijuana industry, as evidenced in two stories we published last week.
By Khurshid Khoja This is the first column in a two-part series As the ongoing federal crackdown of dispensaries and cultivators erodes the medical cannabis industry's base, the impacts have rippled throughout the industry. Ancillary companies — such as agricultural...
