A company's plans to convert the small California desert town of Nipton into a marijuana tourist hub may have hit an insurmountable obstacle. An existing law in San Bernardino County, where Nipton is located, "bars all sales, distribution and production of cannabis,"...
Less than a year after Grammy winner Melissa Etheridge keynoted Women Grow leadership summit, the organization started to stumble.
Women Grow’s leadership believes it’s establishing new business practices that will help put the company on more solid footing, both financially and for brand uniformity at events across the country.
Dixie Elixirs, one of the biggest names in the edibles business, has issued a voluntary recall for six products in Colorado because of potentially unsafe non-food-grade essential oils. Left Bank LLC, which does business as Dixie Elixirs in Colorado, recalled four...
By John Schroyer
It won’t be easy to top the landslide 2016 electoral victories for marijuana, but advocates are looking to make serious headway across the country once again on statewide ballots next year.
Campaigns are underway in at least five states to legalize either medical or recreational cannabis.
At least one Native American tribe - on the White Earth reservation in northwestern Minnesota - has decided to take a leap and get into the hemp business. The tribe has spent $100,000 on just a few acres of the crop, according to Minnesota Public Radio, but is hoping...
A second - and now competing - campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Michigan has gotten the go-ahead from state officials to begin collecting signatures in a bid to make the 2018 ballot. The campaign, Abrogate Prohibition Michigan, was approved Thursday by...
Maine’s recreational marijuana launch delayed, a deadline passes for Maryland’s licensed MMJ growers, and the DOJ nixes a DEA decision.
New Hampshire's four medical marijuana dispensaries are ramping up for an expected boost in both patient registrations and the resulting uptick in sales, thanks to new qualifying MMJ conditions that go into effect this month. The state updated its MMJ law in July to...
Governors in at least two states that have legalized recreational marijuana are pushing back against the Trump administration and defending their efforts to regulate the industry. Alaska Gov. Bill Walker, a former Republican, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General...
The Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions is forcing the Drug Enforcement Administration to backtrack on a new policy in which the DEA promised to issue more federal permits for scientific research into marijuana. The DEA's move a year ago was...
A company that just this month won a license to grow and sell medical marijuana in New York is about to change ownership. Citiva Medical - one of five companies to receive MMJ licenses in early August - is in the process of being acquired by iAnthus Capital Holdings,...
