West Virginia could soon become the latest state to approve a functioning medical marijuana industry. Senate Bill 386, which already passed the state Senate in a lopsided vote, is slated for a possible floor vote in the House on Monday, according to MetroNews. The...
The Department of Justice is apparently gathering information from at least the Colorado attorney general’s office regarding criminal marijuana investigations.
A records request filed with the DOJ by the International Business Times yielded an email from a Drug Enforcement Administration official to Michael Melito, a lawyer with the Colorado attorney general’s office, in which the DEA agent requested information about specific Colorado cannabis cases.
Medical marijuana activists behind a successful MMJ legalization bill in North Dakota last year are threatening to run another ballot measure if state lawmakers stand by proposed regulations that would ban smokable cannabis for most patients. A bill approved by the...
Seven pro-marijuana industry bills were announced Thursday morning by a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers in the House and Senate, suggesting that 2017 may be the year real reform gets through the Capitol. The sponsors range from longtime marijuana industry allies...
The District of Columbia’s medical cannabis companies have been ramping up in the past month, largely because of new business-friendly regulations that have reshaped the future in terms of possible market size.
Marijuana consumption lounges in Las Vegas are looking more and more as if they’ll become a reality for cannabis entrepreneurs.
The Trump administration has been so ambiguous about its intentions regarding recreational cannabis that the Colorado Legislature is considering a bill to allow growers to reclassify their inventory as medical marijuana in the event of a federal crackdown. Though the...
A bill introduced in the California legislature by a coalition of Democratic lawmakers would prohibit local police and sheriff's deputies from aiding in any type of federal crackdown on state-licensed marijuana businesses. The intent, the bill's backers say, is to...
By John Schroyer and Omar Sacirbey New York tweaks its medical marijuana program, a Rhode Island MMJ committee meets eight years after its formation, and a new cannabis advocacy group is born. Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry...
California-based Steep Hill Labs entered into a partnership with iCAN, an Israeli medical marijuana company, to establish a testing lab in the Middle Eastern country. The deal is perhaps the first of its kind for a U.S.-based marijuana testing company to expand...
The Washington DC Department of Health plans to add a medical marijuana dispensary to the five already in operation. The license application period began March 6 and will end April 7, according to a public notice from the DC Department of Health. [include_post...
Adding to a growing trend among licensed Canadian medical marijuana producers, Hydropothecary Corp. went public Tuesday. The Quebec-based company started trading on the TSX Venture Exchange after completing a reverse takeover with BFK Capital Corp. last week, the...
