Some of Seattle’s medical marijuana dispensaries are giving the entire industry a bad name. Roughly a third of the city’s estimated 105 dispensaries have yet to obtain a business license, meaning they are technically violating local laws, according to The Stranger, a...
Medical pot is an extremely risky business to be in these days, with raids, arrests and the threat of criminal prosecution becoming commonplace. The federal government is now even targeting dispensaries and MMJ businesses that are in compliance with state laws,...
Add Florida to the list of Southern states that could see some type of medical marijuana initiative next year. Democratic Rep. Jeff Clemens filed a resolution that would let voters decide whether medical pot should be legal via an amendment to the state’s...
Talk about one-stop shopping for wholesale medical marijuana. Most of the individuals and groups hoping to start cultivation centers in Washington, D.C., are eyeing not only the same area, but in some cases also the same buildings. All but two of the 22 applicants...
The Medical Marijuana Business Alliance - a Colorado-based trade group for the MMJ sector - has been resuscitated after spending a few months on life support. The organization will host its first meeting in months on Wednesday night (Oct. 19) with a "state of the...
Last week, the federal government intensified its campaign against the medical marijuana industry by raiding two cooperatives in California and a wellness center in Colorado. Raids are somewhat common in the industry, as law enforcement agents are always on the...
Businesses that make marijuana-infused treats have been burgeoning as of late, with patients gobbling up everything from cannabis brownies and ice cream to pot pizza, peanut butter and lasagna. But the laws and regulations governing edibles are just as vague and...
Medical marijuana trade groups, lawyers and industry advisers across the nation are trying to allay fears that the federal government's crackdown in California will spread to other states. California's pot industry, they argue, is mostly unregulated, allowing shady...
Just when it appeared New Jersey was finally on track to move forward with its dispensary program, yet another setback has cropped up. The zoning board in Maple Shade, New Jersey, unanimously rejected a group's request to use a relatively isolated building surrounded...
Two rather interesting, and related, developments on the medical marijuana front in Colorado this week: - The local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union announced that it now represents several hundred medical marijuana workers, according to a...
Dozens of California cities large and small have come out against medical pot in recent months, with some forcing existing dispensaries to leave town and others enacting bans that will prevent MMCs from setting up shop in the first place. Now, it looks like the pot...
The largest city in Montana will wait another two weeks to decide whether to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, as officials want to get more input from citizens on the issue. Billings City Council was set to vote earlier this week on a measure that would make it...
