The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has raided several medical marijuana businesses in San Diego over the past week, highlighting the Obama administration's efforts to conduct a sustained crackdown on California pot shops. In the latest series of marijuana raids,...
When all else fails, grow your own. That's the thinking behind the University of Spokamsterdam, a new school in Spokane, Washington, that teaches students how to grow pot. The school - which opened its doors this year - initially planned to focus on helping dispensary...
Two very different developments emerged in the MMJ industry at the end of last week, one immensely negative and one immensely positive for medical cannabis. First, the bad news: The federal government shifted the focus of its crackdown from the West Coast to Colorado,...
By Ellen Komp Californians, and the medical marijuana industry, have a chance to make an important stride for human rights in the coming weeks. Senate Bill 129 - introduced by Sen. Mark Leno - would grant needed employment rights to medical marijuana users, and will...
It's a great day for MMJ in Arizona...and for the entire medical cannabis industry. After a nine-month delay that threatened to completely derail the state's budding medical marijuana industry, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has directed Department of Health Services...
A federal medical marijuana crackdown that started in California and then spread to Washington and Montana has now made its way to Colorado, threatening what many see as the most stable MMJ industry in the country. The U.S. Attorney's office sent letters to 23...
A new voter initiative in California to legalize and regulate the general use of marijuana could help protect medical pot dispensaries from the Internal Revenue Service. The Regulate Marijuana Like Wine campaign seeks to repeal prohibition of marijuana for adults,...
The medical marijuana landscape in Colorado is as mixed and varied as the state's terrain. In cities like Denver and Colorado Springs, many patients get their cannabis from registered, regulated marijuana dispensaries. But in other areas - such as Fort Collins and...
The medical pot industry has been pretty vocal in its criticism of Barack Obama lately, berating the administration for cracking down on dispensaries, flip-flopping on the issue and creating mass confusion. Some MMJ professionals have even vowed to vote for someone...
The future looks bright for Cannabis Science, a California-based company that develops marijuana-based medicine. The firm issued strong financial guidance for 2012 and beyond, saying it expects to generate $6.8 million in revenues this year and as much as $65.7...
What a great week for the medical pot industry. At least in Arizona, where a federal judge threw out a lawsuit that questioned the legality of the state's voter-approved medical cannabis regulations. The decision clears the biggest hurdle for medical pot in Arizona....
What happens when a state allows medical marijuana sales but then backtracks and tries to more or less to shut down the entire industry? Pot advocates switch their focus from the medical aspect of pot to the decriminalization of the drug in general. At least that's...
