By John Schroyer New York's health department recommends doubling the size of the state's medical marijuana industry, Oregon recreational applications flood in as adult-use sales skyrocket, and Michigan's MJ legal limbo may persist a few more years. Here’s a closer...
A pair of recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates have packed up, moved to Chicago, and raised $4.5 million to launch a first-of-its-kind trading platform for industrial hemp. The duo said traditional markets have overlooked hemp, Crain's Chicago...
One of Canada's 35 licensed medical marijuana producers has big plans for the future - plans the size of 10 football fields. That's how big an automated greenhouse in Alberta will be once Vancouver-based Aurora Cannabis is finished building it out, the Calgary Sun...
Michigan residents may not get the opportunity to vote on legalizing recreational cannabis in November after a local judge rejected a pro-marijuana campaign's effort to place an adult-use initiative on the statewide ballot. Michigan Court of Claims Judge Stephen...
Oklahoma could become the ninth state to vote on some form of cannabis legalization in November after the secretary of state ruled on Tuesday that a pro-medical marijuana campaign submitted enough valid signatures to make the fall ballot. The initiative, Question 788,...
By John Schroyer Significant changes are on the way for Los Angeles' sprawling, largely unregulated medical marijuana industry. City lawmakers are expected to place a measure on the local ballot next year to reform existing rules and create a new regulatory framework...
Oregon's recreational marijuana sales have passed the $100 million mark this year. Although rec sales began at medical dispensaries last October, the state didn't begin taxing those sales until January, at 25%. The 2016 sales figures for the first seven months are in...
Uruguay made history nearly three years ago when it became the first modern country to legalize recreational marijuana at the federal level. But given how difficult the country's industry rollout has been, at least one Uruguayan cannabis producer is shifting its...
Madison County, just east of Syracuse, New York, is home to the first legal industrial hemp crop in the state in 80 years. And thanks to a bill signed into law on Friday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the cultivators will be allowed to sell it under an existing pilot program,...
The U.S. Army Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Nadja West, has declined to support the use of medical cannabis for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. West's opposition deals a setback to efforts in the cannabis industry to extend the use of...
Interest in Oregon's recreational marijuana industry is off the charts. The state has received over 1,300 applications from companies that are hoping to obtain licenses to open recreational marijuana businesses. To date, the Oregon Liquor...
A second campaign in Arkansas to legalize medical marijuana submitted a final round of signatures to the secretary of state's office on Friday, and it's likely more than enough to secure the initiative a spot on the ballot, the Arkansas Times reported. The campaign,...
