A group of licensed medical marijuana companies resumed efforts to challenge Pennsylvania’s MMJ clinical research program in court, saying the effort needs to pause until it has a transparent vetting process for selecting cultivators. At the heart of the lawsuit,...
The Nevada Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit that would have required the state to license only alcohol wholesalers as distributors of recreational marijuana. The decision doesn’t have an immediate effect, but “when we decide to open up more...
Minnesota is adding Alzheimer’s disease as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana, a move that could provide a boost to MMJ sales.
Utah lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Monday to pass a medical marijuana compromise bill with more restrictive business provisions than the ballot initiative approved by voters Nov. 6.
Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, signed the measure into law Monday night and said his administration would implement the law “as quickly as feasible.”
Two former executives of the once high-flying Colorado cannabis company Sweet Leaf have pleaded guilty to felony drug charges and are serving 30-day jail sentences, the alt-weekly Westword newspaper reported. The plea agreements by Nichole West, a former Sweet Leaf...
New Jersey legislative committees advance potentially groundbreaking adult-use cannabis legislation, an Ohio credit union offers limited banking services to medical marijuana companies, and sales are booming at Massachusetts' first two recreational MJ stores. Here’s a...
Michigan is trying to ease newly licensed medical marijuana dispensaries' concerns that they'll run out of supply and lose business during the transition to a new, stricter regulatory regime. The state’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory...
Steven Hawkins, who is now three months in as the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), said in a telephone interview with Marijuana Business Daily that he sees opportunities for rapid progress in the number of states that might legalize adult-use...
Possession and adult use of marijuana will be legal in Michigan starting Dec. 6, but the launch of what is expected to be a billion-dollar-plus commercial industry is still more than a year away.
New Jersey took a big step Monday toward becoming the latest state to legalize recreational marijuana when separate panels in the Senate and the Assembly approved identical legislation and sent it to the full Legislature for a vote. Gov. Phil Murphy, a pro-marijuana...
Some Michigan communities are already prohibiting adult-use marijuana businesses, a little more than a week after voters in the state approved legalization of recreational cannabis. According to various newspaper reports, Niles City in southwestern Michigan and...
A company that says it was part of a team vying for a medical marijuana business license in New York has sued multistate cannabis operator Acreage Holdings and others for $400 million, alleging they reneged on an ownership stake in a lucrative MMJ venture in the Empire State.
