A Silicon Valley venture capital firm with a successful track record in the tech industry announced that it's throwing considerable finances behind a California startup that's aiming to bring a marijuana breathalyzer to market. Benchmark Capital - which previously...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a bill that will allow hemp farmers in the state to use water from federal reservoirs. The measure, Senate Bill 117, asserts that Colorado hemp farmers be permitted to use federal reservoir water if they're registered...
A campaign to put a recreational marijuana legalization initiative before voters in Michigan got the green light from state election officials to start collecting signatures. The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol announced that the state board of canvassers...
Reports from New Mexico's seed-to-sale tracking system show that five of the state's medical cannabis businesses actually sold roughly 200,000 more grams of MMJÂ than they grew from January through March. A review of quarterly MMJ reporting documents by the New Mexico...
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission gave final approval to the first company to win a cultivation license under the state's MMJ program. The announcement Wednesday comes nine months after the state revealed 15 preliminary license winners,...
By John Schroyer A congressman, an activist and a pair of former federal officials agreed on one thing Wednesday on the first day of the Spring Marijuana Business Conference & Expo: The only certainty for cannabis businesses under the Trump administration is...
Australian businesses looking to enter the nation's nascent medical cannabis market are doing plenty of prep work, including raising millions and signing partnership deals. Within recent days, Perth-based AusCann was at the center of two such related developments. The...
At least two marijuana companies in Alaska have applied for - but almost certainly won't receive - formal state advertising labels that are typically granted to other agricultural products. The labels, which simply read "Alaska Grown," are handed out via the state...
By John Schroyer Facing a cloud of uncertainty under the new Trump administration, more than 3,000 cannabis entrepreneurs, investors and executives are descending on the nation's capital this week for the third annual spring Marijuana Business Conference & Expo....
Minnesota's two licensed medical marijuana manufacturers have lost a combined $11 million in just two years of sales, according to financial documents obtained by The Associated Press, continuing losses that hint at systemic problems with the state's tightly regulated...
Denver, which could become the first major U.S. city to allow cannabis consumption at mainstream businesses like restaurants and clubs, has put forward proposed rules to govern places that want to allow marijuana use on their premises. The...
By John Schroyer
Now that Nevada has approved an early start to recreational cannabis sales, existing medical marijuana companies in the state are readying for a burst of new business that could equate to tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue this year.
