I received a phone call several days ago from Ryan Maitland of the Ohio Coalition for Medical Compassion, the group behind an effort to legalize medical marijuana in the Buckeye State. As I wrote about last week, the coalition submitted a petition to the state...
By Chris Walsh Want to know what gives the medical marijuana industry - and individual cannabis dispensaries - a bad name? Actually, there's a lot of things we could put on this list, like selling weed through back-door channels, allowing MMJ employees to smoke while...
Don't expect any further clarification from the government on medical marijuana until after the next presidential election, at the earliest. The Obama administration seems to be going out of its way to avoid the issue, afraid of the repercussions if it articulates a...
This weekend, I picked up a copy of Westword for the first time in probably a decade. I've been reading the Denver-based alternative weekly newspaper online over the past few months, primarily to keep tabs on medical marijuana developments. But I figured I'd check out...
While scouring the Internet for medical marijuana news, I've seen a fair share of stories over the past week about cities and communities banning pot shops. Here are some of the latest developments on this front: - California is a hotbed of activity when it comes to...
After a flurry of gatherings in late spring, the Colorado medical marijuana community has been relatively quiet on the event front. Blame it on the July 1 compliance deadline - which had dispensaries scrambling to meet new regulations - and the summer break for...
Early last week, it seemed Ohio was well on its way to becoming the next state to let voters decide if medical marijuana should be legal. A group of residents submitted a petition with 2,143 signatures from registered voters, the first step in the process of getting...
Colorado medical marijuana dispensaries toiled away day and night for months to prepare for new state regulations that went into effect on July 1. But they soon discovered that the agencies charged with overseeing the industry weren't even ready. Now, a month later,...
There's a golden rule in the medical marijuana business: Do everything in your power to appear legitimate, professional and law-abiding. In other words, don't toe the line when it comes to ethics, legal issues or anything else that could tarnish the perception of the...
A California hydroponics company is hoping to become one of the first major nationwide chains in the medical marijuana industry, announcing plans to open dozens of stores in several states.
Now here's an unusual (and controversial) marketing practice: A medical marijuana dispensary in Lansing, Michigan, recently offered customers a half gram of free weed if they registered to vote. Encouraging citizens to perform their civic duty is an honorable thing....
School's out for summer - and possibly forever. That's the case with Colorado-based Greenway University, which has been suspended because of discrepancies in the owner's application to run the school, according to a report by KMGH-TV in Denver. Greenway, founded in...
