Two polls released on - of all dates - "4/20" show that the American public solidly supports national legalization of marijuana as well as states' rights to legalize and regulate cannabis as they see fit. A CBS News poll and a study by Quinnipiac University both found...
Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.
By John Schroyer Colorado State Bank Commissioner Chris Myklebust flew to Washington DC in March to meet with a group of state bank regulators. He also met with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, and a staffer for U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Colorado...
It's official: West Virginia has become the 30th state in the nation to legalize medical cannabis, and the first to do so in 2017. Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 386, the Medical Cannabis Act, and said it was "a monumental day," MetroNews reported....
Colorado Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, one of the four founding members of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, said during a panel discussion Tuesday in Denver he believes the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment - which protects medical marijuana businesses from the...
Concerned they're losing business to medical marijuana retailers in unincorporated parts of Clark County, city officials in Las Vegas are now eyeballing possible rollbacks to city MMJ rules that may let Sin City dispensaries stay open later and serve more customers....
By John Schroyer
A little over a year ago, Detroit enacted a new restrictive set of zoning ordinances designed to legitimize some medical marijuana dispensaries and to close dozens of others.
Today, according to the city, just three “caregiver centers” are licensed and 59 are in the approval process.
A series of proposals from California Gov. Jerry Brown to merge regulations for medical and recreational marijuana have come under fire from some state lawmakers and political stakeholders, throwing the future of the regulatory changes into uncertainty. Some in...
Florida-based Franwell, which built Colorado’s cannabis tracking system, has been awarded a state contract from Michigan worth nearly $450,000 to implement a similar inventory tracking program for the state’s medical marijuana program.
North Dakota's legislature has passed a bill establishing a regulatory structure for the state's upcoming medical cannabis industry. The measure - which now goes to the governor, who said he would sign the bill - includes several business-friendly provisions....
It's money week in the cannabis industry: Three Colorado-based ancillary marijuana companies announced multimillion-dollar capital raises totaling $7.35 million. BDS Analytics on Monday revealed it had successfully completed a $2.1 million round of fundraising from...
A turf war over Arizona’s medical cannabis vaporizer market has spilled into the courts, with one multistate marijuana company suing another over an alleged smear campaign.
