A New Mexico hearing officer endorsed a plan to limit medical cannabis cultivation to 1,750 mature plants per grower, an effort to avert a possible market oversupply. State health department Secretary Kathyleen Kunkel will have the final say on whether to implement...
Harvest Health & Recreation is in high-stakes clashes with medical marijuana regulators in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and the disputes could potentially offer other MMJ firms cautionary lessons around the necessity to maintain extremely pristine regulatory compliance...
Medical marijuana businesses in Michigan soon will face a new licensing fee structure that will increase renewal costs for large growers but lower them for dispensaries. The tiered pricing structure for the state’s 250 MMJ businesses will go...
A Missouri company won a one-year contract estimated at $517,319 to review and score the medical marijuana business applications in the state.
New Jersey lawmakers may take one last stab at legalizing recreational marijuana. “I’m not going to give up trying,” state Senate President Stephen Sweeney told NJ.com. “We’ll make one more run at it," the Democrat told the publication....
In a development that could boost the medical marijuana market in New Mexico, a district court judge ordered the state to begin issuing cards to qualified MMJ patients regardless of where they live. The crux of the issue, according to NM Political Report, is a change...
Credit unions in state-legal markets won’t risk punishment for providing services to marijuana-related businesses as long as they follow strict banking regulations, a federal credit union regulator said. “It’s a business decision for the credit unions if they want to...
Louisiana launched medical cannabis sales after years of waiting, but market growth is expected to prove constrained because of bans on smokable flower and vaporizers, high prices and various regulations.
An Iowa state board added chronic pain as a qualifying condition to use medical marijuana, a development that should increase sales in the state's heavily regulated market. Chronic pain generally tends to lead sales for medical conditions in...
Prospective medical marijuana businesses in Missouri began vying for 348 potential licenses as the state's formal two-week application process got underway. More than 600 potential applicants already had prefiled facility application fees,...
A likely yearslong delay in the launch of West Virginia’s medical marijuana program reflects the uncertainties cannabis entrepreneurs face when vying to enter certain conservative states. State officials blame the holdup on a struggle to provide banking services for...
Because marijuana is illegal in the United States, financially distressed cannabis-related companies are between a rock and a hard place when seeking relief from creditors.
