Ask cannabis dispensary owners and other professionals involved in the medical marijuana industry to list their top pain points, and you'll likely get a pretty standard answer: Government intervention, uncertainty over business taxes and....banking issues. The last...
By Jason Klein The Washington DC Medical Marijuana Program has been a long time in the making. Way back in 1998, 69% of residents in the District voted in favor of the medical use of marijuana. But Congress held the program hostage for more than a decade through the...
Unity. That, according to marijuana organizations and top medical cannabis people, is what the MMJ industry needs more than anything else right now. And that’s what the medical marijuana business community is finally starting to get, in ways both large and small. Last...
For MMJ dispensary owners, professionals in the medical cannabis industry and marijuana patients, next week will involve much more than exorbitantly priced flowers, romantic dinners and chocolates that come in heart-shaped boxes. It is, after all, Medical Marijuana...
It's been a good couple months for medical marijuana - at least when it comes to independent studies about the effects of cannabis laws on society. Last fall, there was the controversial study showing that crime increased in Los Angeles neighborhoods where pot shops...
In another blow to San Diego's cannabis industry - and to the California medical marijuana community in general - a Superior Court judge has ruled that the city can refuse to issue pot dispensaries a business tax certificate despite state MMJ laws. The judge...
Ohio billionaire and medical cannabis advocate Peter Lewis is putting his personal wealth behind another marijuana initiative. This time, he's backing a bid aimed at legalizing medical marijuana in Massachusetts - hoping to add it to the list of states with medical...
Cannabis caregivers, advocates, businesses and supporters from across the country have come together to create a new Michigan MMJ group that works to protect the rights of medical marijuana users in all states that have passed pot laws. The National Patients Rights...
Pay close attention to what's going on with Harborside Health Center in California, as the battle between the medical marijuana dispensary and the IRS could have repercussions for everyone involved in the cannabis industry. As we reported last week, the Oakland-based...
Curious as to how a marijuana dispensary such as Denver Relief - one of the first Colorado cannabis businesses - has managed to thrive in a constantly changing regulatory landscape that saw the recent introduction of an extensive (and expensive) new set of rules on...
Harborside Health Center - the prominent medical cannabis dispensary in Oakland led by well-known pot activist Steve DeAngelo - announced today that it has filed a petition protesting the $2.4 million bill it received from the IRS for back taxes after a long,...
While the federal government, state lawmakers and local city council members wage war on the California medical marijuana industry, the average resident supports the idea of legalized pot. That's the major finding of a new marijuana poll that asked 800 likely voters...
