A ratepayer-funded agency in Maine that promotes sustainable energy will allow licensed marijuana businesses to apply for energy-efficiency grants. Efficiency Maine lifted a ban on cannabis businesses by a vote of 5-2, saying marijuana businesses are as likely as...
In a rare move, the Florida Supreme Court heard additional oral arguments Wednesday on a case to decide whether the state's medical marijuana licensing scheme is unconstitutional, with questions focusing in large part on whether the system is closed or open. The case...
A legal challenge to the Washington state’s cannabis licensing residency requirement is being sent back to state court by a federal judge.
Publicly traded multistate marijuana operators appear to be in better financial health than they were at the beginning of the year, but many have shed operations in potentially lucrative markets to bolster their balance sheets.
How federal labor laws affect state-legal marijuana businesses could remain murky after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an overtime pay case in the cannabis sector. A petition by Helix TCS, a Colorado cannabis security firm, for the Supreme Court to review...
Illinois is continuing to run into major legal problems in its bid to award 75 additional marijuana retail licenses and prove the merits of its social equity plan.
West Virginia regulators awarded 10 medical cannabis cultivation permits as one of the country’s slowest MMJ programs to launch took a major step toward a possible market start in spring 2021. The cultivation license award winners included at least three multistate...
Smoke and ash from the record wildfires in the western U.S. are slowing the growth of outdoor marijuana plants and forcing cultivators to rethink when to harvest their crop. MJBizDaily takeaway: Growers in California, Oregon and Washington state are struggling at how...
Marijuana multistate operator Green Thumb Industries announced an amended sale-leaseback deal valued at up to $32.2 million for a facility in Ohio, reflecting a further loosening of capital - especially for expansion in fast-growing markets. The transaction with San...
A leading Arkansas medical marijuana dispensary says it's facing a product shortage that can be resolved only by additional cultivation capacity. Dragan Vicentic, owner of Green Springs medical marijuana dispensary in Hot Springs, the leading MMJ seller in the state,...
Voters in five states will decide whether to legalize medical and recreational cannabis on Nov. 3, with billions of dollars of market opportunities hanging in the balance.
Oregon regulators suspended the license of a marijuana testing lab for a series of violations, most of which predate the facility’s destruction earlier this month by the Almeda wildfire. The order by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) bans Ecotest Labs from...
