At least 10 national polls since mid-2014 have now found a majority of Americans favor legalizing cannabis. The latest, from Quinnipiac University, was released Monday morning. It found that overall 54% of U.S. voters believe marijuana should be legalized, while an...
A trio of marijuana-related campaigns - two in favor of legalization and one against - are scrambling to get the requisite number of signatures in advance of a June 17 deadline for putting the issue on the November ballot. One, spearheaded by the anti-cannabis Safe...
One of Canada's few licensed medical marijuana producers, Aurora Cannabis, said it has secured a $5 million equity investment from a New York-based investment firm, Alumina Partners The deal calls for Alumina to purchase $5 million in shares and warrants from Aurora,...
Arizona's medical marijuana market - already one of the largest in the country - could get even bigger after a judge ruled the state improperly rejected a hearing into whether patients with Parkinson's Disease should be added to the qualifying list of conditions for...
Minnesota authorities are probing whether one of the state's two licensed medical marijuana producers illegally shipped $500,000 worth of MMJ oil to a sister company in New York. The company in question, Minnesota Medical Solutions, is owned by Vireo Health, the same...
Arizona announced it will accept applications from July 18-29 for its new round of licensing for medical cannabis dispensaries, a move that will increase the number of dispensaries in the state by roughly 30%. The Arizona Department of Health Services will dole out a...
By John Schroyer Henry Wykowski scored a big victory for the cannabis industry last month after the Department of Justice dropped its case against one of his clients, California-based Harborside Health Center. Now the Bay Area attorney has a new federal government...
A Seattle-based startup that focuses on technology to infuse products such as sugar with THC has raised $410,000 to help fund its growth. DeepCell Industries, which isn't a marijuana plant-touching company but stays strictly on the tech-development side, licenses its...
AÂ campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Michigan has submitted roughly 100,000 more signatures than needed to qualify for the ballot, fueling optimism that voters will get to decide the issue this November. Jeffrey Hank, chair of MILegalize, said in an email...
Ohio appears poised to become the newest state to approve a medical marijuana program, which could create one of the largest MMJ industries in the nation with patient numbers in the hundreds of thousands and annual sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Former NFL running back Ricky Williams is one of the partners in the upcoming  San Francisco marijuana-friendly fitness center that an enterprising workout enthusiast has planned for this fall. Williams, a longtime cannabis user who played for the Miami Dolphins and...
An Israeli Israeli generic drugs and medical devices company has partnered with a New Mexico-based MMJ producer and dispensary operator in a bid to expand its interests across the globe.
