Owners of Colorado cannabis dispensaries who want to get out of the medical marijuana industry or simply turn a quick profit might find their savior in Arizona-based Altitude Organic Corp. The company announced recently that it plans to make formal bids for a handful...
Wow, what a year! While medical cannabis continues to fatten the wallets of lawyers nationwide, the marijuana industry passed the crucial “tipping point” in 2011, where it is now too big to fail and provides too many jobs to be shut down.
The Washington DC cannabis scene is heating up, with medical pot dispensaries and marijuana growers gearing up to start serving MMJ patients. To help the DC medical marijuana industry get off on the right foot, a local law office is hosting a first-of-its-kind meeting...
The names are not the ones you’d typically associate with medical marijuana: Alabama, Idaho, Florida and North Carolina, to list a few. But these states – and 14 others – are among those that could join the U.S. medical cannabis community in the near future. As we...
The press release sounds promising: Medical Marijuana Inc, a publicly traded firm that invests in and purchases hemp and cannabis companies, saw revenues double in the fourth quarter of 2011 over the previous three-month period. The company, it seems, is doing well...
Starting a medical marijuana dispensary is an expensive endeavor. Pot entrepreneurs must shell out a small fortune for everything from grow equipment and security systems to MMJ registration fees and building modifications. The costs can multiply quickly once the...
Medical marijuana raids in California, Colorado, Washington and other states make newspaper headlines seemingly every morning. Pot dispensary bans, moratoriums on weed dispensaries and community protests lead the nightly newscast. Speculation about what the federal...
Lawmakers are trying once again to tweak medical pot laws in Washington State in a bid to come up with a long-lasting solution that will appease marijuana dispensaries, cannabis patients, local governments and the population at large. Good luck with that. Crafting a...
Ahh, the 1920s. Flapper girls and dapper gents in fedoras. Dixieland Jazz and the Charleston. Creative alcoholic concoctions mixed in secretive underground clubs away from the watchful eye of authorities. That’s the vibe medical pot advocates hope to create at the...
If you think the federal government is playing a game of chicken with the medical marijuana community, you are sorely mistaken. It became abundantly clear last week that the Obama administration is serious about cracking down on the cannabis industry. Rather than try...
Some people just don't know when to quit. That seems to be the case with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, whose efforts to halt the state's medical marijuana program and prevent pot shops from opening continue to come up short. Brewer lost another key battle in her war...
It's been a rough start to the new year for Colorado medical marijuana businesses, which find themselves in the crosshairs as the Drug Enforcement Agency widens its assault on the cannabis industry. So it's an ideal time for the Medical Marijuana Business Alliance - a...
