Get ready for prime time, baby. As we Tweeted last week, the medical marijuana industry will get its day in the sun via a new reality show on the Discovery Channel focusing on Harborside Health Center in Oakland, California. And it's got a great name: "Weed Wars." The...
Nearly two dozen medical marijuana dispensaries have sprouted up in the college town of Fort Collins, Colo., since 2009. Now, a group of citizens is attempting to turn back the clock to the days when marijuana wasn't openly sold from storefronts. Organizers behind a...
Opinion: The medical pot regulatory structure of the future will highly favor pharmaceutical firms and health professionals, who will use their political clout and business heft to win dispensary licenses and push out the little guys.
If you own a dispensary or hope to open one someday, you should pay particularly close attention to what's going on in Seattle. It's a sign of things to come for medical marijuana in other large cities. Seattle's City Council passed a measure last night to license,...
Los Angeles has a medical marijuana dispensary for every 4,000 residents. Denver has one dispensary for every 1,500 or so residents. But tiny Alma, Colorado, has a medical marijuana center for every 137.5 residents. Weird-but-true, Alma also is geographically the...
I met with Colorado attorney Brian Vicente yesterday for the first time, dropping by his office in downtown Denver to formally introduce myself and pick his brain about the medical marijuana industry. It was long overdue. I've read his quotes in plenty of news reports...
National Public Radio aired a 4-minute segment on Tuesday covering recent developments in the medical marijuana industry. It's good to see the mainstream media take the sector seriously. In fact, on the same day this story aired, medical marijuana was a more popular...
You've no doubt read articles about dispensaries robbed at gunpoint. And we've all heard about attacks on workers delivering medical marijuana. It's enough to make you want to close up shop or abandon plans to start a medical marijuana center. Lawmakers who oppose the...
How much does it cost to comply with Colorado's new medical marijuana regulations? Think $30,000 minimum and more than $100,000 on the high end, according to estimates provided by a handful of dispensary owners I've spoken to in recent weeks. The regulations, which...
Pot supporters in Colorado are gearing up for what they hope will be a watershed year in 2012, starting a drive today to gather the roughly 86,000 signatures needed to get a measure on the ballot that would essentially legalize the recreational use of cannabis. A...
With July 4th in the rearview mirror, many Americans are recovering from holiday hangovers tied to beer or mass amounts of hot dogs and burgers. This year, however, those involved in the medical marijuana industry find themselves battling another type of indigestion....
Well, you asked for it, and now you got it. Unfortunately, it's probably the worst news possible for the medical marijuana industry. Yesterday, the Department of Justice issued a long-awaited clarification on the government's stance toward medical marijuana in a...
