The first dispensaries in Hawaii likely won't begin serving patients until much later this year, even though they're officially allowed to open next week. The reason: they're simply not ready. Hawaii officials just awarded business licenses in late April, so the...
Helix TCS, a Colorado cannabis company that offers a wide range of services for industry firms, announced Tuesday it has acquired Cannabase, a leading online wholesale platform where many of the state's growers and retailers buy and sell marijuana. The move broadens...
A key component in southeast Alaska's upcoming recreational cannabis industry is almost complete: Marijuana testing labs in Juneau, the state capital, are expected to be licensed soon. That's important for local cannabis entrepreneurs. All marijuana must be lab-tested...
By John Schroyer The recreational marijuana price drop many in Colorado's industry have been predicting for over a year has occurred - at least at the wholesale level. The average price wholesale growers are asking retailers, edibles producers and others to pay for...
Steep Hill Labs, a prominent marijuana testing company, has severed all contracts with New Jersey-based Pazoo, which had struck a deal to operate Steep Hill-branded cannabis testing labs in Colorado, Nevada and Oregon. In a press release, Steep Hill said the...
Colorado marijuana advocates - including many MJ companies - have formed a coalition to combat a proposed ballot measure that many in the industry say would gut the state's cannabis market. The proposed ballot initiative would cap cannabis product potency at 16% THC....
California’s recreational marijuana campaign makes the November ballot, GW Pharmaceuticals’ MJ-based epilepsy drug could play a role in DEA rescheduling, and a possible new dawn in Illinois’ medical cannabis program.
Canadian medical cannabis producer PharmaCielo has secured a license to manufacture MMJ products in Colombia, the first of what will likely be many companies to win a permit in the Latin American country. In fact, Colombia could prove a fertile business opportunity...
An Arizona campaign to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday filed 258,582 signatures with the secretary of state's office, a week in advance of the July 7 deadline. The total far exceeds the 150,642 valid signatures required to get the initiative on the 2016...
One of two licensed Missouri businesses legally allowed to grow and dispense CBD is now open and has been serving patients for about two months. BeLeaf is growing and dispensing a high-CBD strain of industrial hemp called Noah's Releaf imported from California. It so...
By John Schroyer Comedian and TV personality Whoopi Goldberg announced in March she was teaming up with California edibles producer Maya Elisabeth to tackle a new medical cannabis demographic: women who suffer from menstrual cramps. The business - Whoopi & Maya...
One of Canada's largest medical cannabis producers has found yet another international partner - this time in Brazil. Canopy Growth Corp., which owns Bedrocan, has teamed up with Brazilian company Entourage Phytolab SA and also founded a new subsidiary, Bedrocan...
