Televangelist Pat Robertson created some of the biggest news in the cannabis community last week - or at least the most interesting, judging from the huge number of stories, tweets and Facebook comments. In an interview with the New York Times, the controversial...
By Mark Goldfogel What do you get when you close medical marijuana centers? A thriving, untaxed, unregulated and illegal drug market. In Colorado, users are still patients, so cops have nothing to enforce. Drug dealers (you know, the ones on the corner who don’t care...
The upcoming Seventh National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Arizona might sound a bit dry to the average professional in the medical marijuana industry. Just take a look at the lineup of science-focused sessions, which feature titles such as...
The marijuana community - and, by extension, the medical cannabis industry - is getting support from an unlikely source: Controversial Christian televangelist Pat Robertson. In an interview this week with The New York Times, Robertson criticized the long-running and...
Lawmakers in Colorado will wait a bit longer to decide the fate of a proposal that would bring more legitimacy - and some leniency - to the medical marijuana industry by encouraging cannabis dispensaries and other MMJ businesses to bolster worker training. A Senate...
Two prominent executives in the medical marijuana industry caught up in a contentious feud have agreed to bury the hatchet and go their separate ways for the good of MMJ in general. Dhar Mann, the founder of hydroponics giant weGrow, and his former business partner...
An interesting turn of events in Rhode Island over the past few days has given medical cannabis proponents, would-be MMJ professionals and industry vendors new hope that the state will move forward with its marijuana dispensary program. Last week, Rhode Island Gov....
Making predictions about the medical marijuana industry could be considered a fool’s task. It’s impossible to guess what will happen tomorrow or next week, let alone next month or later in the year. Just look at all the unexpected events that unfolded in 2011.
Our top news from last week highlights just how inconsistent attitudes, policies and perceptions of medical cannabis - and marijuana in general - have become. Ok, ok, it's always been that way. But it's even more so now. On one hand, we have states that pioneered the...
Efforts to get medical cannabis laws passed in the Big Apple received a shot in the arm yesterday when the New York City Council voted to support a state bill that would pave the way for MMJ legalization.
The rapid erosion of Montana's medical marijuana industry has continued into the new year, with the number of registered cannabis patients tumbling another 11% in January from the previous month. According to the latest data from the Montana medical marijuana...
The federal government's crackdown on the medical cannabis industry in California is an attempt to shut down marijuana businesses raking in huge profits at the expense of patients, according to the U.S. attorney in Sacramento. "We have received information that some...
