Arkansas' Supreme Court disqualified one of two medical cannabis legalization ballot initiatives, leaving a lone measure for voters to decide on and perhaps improving its chances of success. The high court ruled 5-2 on Thursday that roughly 12,000 signatures submitted...
The medical cannabis industry in Washington DC is in for an interesting ride over the next few months, with regulatory changes on tap that could provide major expansion opportunities for businesses.
The Florida chapter of NORML said it is suing a county elections commissioner after Amendment 2, a state ballot initiative to broaden Florida's medical marijuana program, was found to be missing from some ballots. The scope of the problem is unknown, but the suspect...
By John Schroyer Washington State's marijuana industry appears to be evolving into a singular cannabis market, with almost no distinction between medical and recreational. That's the apparent outcome so far from the state's move to merge its previously unregulated MMJ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Tuesday published a tentative 25-page version of regulations for medical cannabis dispensaries and plans to release additional proposed rules for growers and processors by Oct. 29. The draft dispensary rules comes about two...
The U.S. Department of Justice is on the verge of dismissing a 3-year-old case against Berkeley Patients Group, according to a press release from the medical marijuana dispensary.
The cannabis industry still has a pesticide problem. Steep Hill, one of the leading names in cannabis testing, said in a press release Wednesday that a whopping 84% of marijuana samples submitted to its Berkeley, California, lab came back positive for pesticide...
Two new polls show cannabis gaining major ground with U.S. voters, with one finding that 60% of Americans want marijuana legalized and another discovering 55% support in Massachusetts for a ballot measure that would legalize recreational cannabis. The national poll,...
By John Schroyer Many in the medical cannabis trade have long viewed Florida as a plum waiting to be picked, a potentially ripe market for both new and existing marijuana companies given the state's massive population and heavy concentration of seniors. But the...
Oregon's emerging recreational marijuana industry surpassed $160 million in sales for 2016 at the end of September. Those numbers could be even bigger in reality, however, because the Oregon Department of Revenue is still waiting on some cannabis businesses to file...
With 54 towns and counties asking voters whether they want to opt back into the recreational cannabis market after having banned it, the Oregon adult-use marijuana market could get a lot bigger after Election Day. That's how many local governments in Oregon are...
The Turkish government has legalized medical cannabis production in 19 of its 81 provinces, but the step forward is quite tentative and has a lot of strings attached. According to Britain's Independent newspaper, the move by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and...
