London-based Technavio, a market research firm, has issued a report listing what it considers to be the top seven American marijuana vendors. The report focuses on four markets: Arizona, California, Colorado and Washington State, as opposed to all 23 states across the...
Washington State marijuana businesses are now subject to new rules under which various products can be recalled and even destroyed due to pesticide use. The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board adopted emergency rules this week to address pesticides in cannabis...
Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division, which oversees both recreational and medical cannabis businesses across the state, began overhauling its site last fall to make business information more readily available to the public. For example, the MED's site now allows...
By John Schroyer Before landing her current job as deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, Taylor West spent more than a decade working in national politics, including four years in Washington DC. During that time, West gained insight she can...
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom formally threw his full support behind a proposed ballot measure to legalize recreational cannabis on Monday, in an editorial published in the Modesto Bee. The move marries Newsom to the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), which has...
Colorado-based MJ Freeway has won a state contract with the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health to implement a seed-to-sale inventory tracking system for the state's medical cannabis industry. The contract is for five years and is worth $603,393, a company...
While hemp production is rapidly expanding in Kentucky, the number of farmers sowing the crop is being cut in half in neighboring Tennessee. In Kentucky, according to the Commonwealth Journal, the state has authorized 4,500 acres to be cultivated with industrial hemp...
Colorado recreational cannabis businesses can relax: The U.S. Supreme Court won't be overthrowing the state's 2012 voter-approved law. The court announced Monday morning that it had decided by a 6-2 vote not to take up the case, which was brought by the attorneys...
CanopyBoulder, a business accelerator based in Colorado, announced on Friday it has completed yet another seven-figure round of fundraising to invest in startups. The accelerator raised $2 million to help new marijuana-related companies get off the ground in 2016...
Vireo Health, one of the five licensed medical cannabis businesses in New York, is trying to persuade Google to change its mind about running ads from the company. Google has rejected proposed ads from Vireo seven times now, pointing to policies that ban...
New Jersey's five operating medical cannabis dispensaries may have the highest MMJ prices of any market in the country, according to the state's own officials. The state department of health released a report on March 11 that found the average ounce of cannabis in New...
By John Schroyer and Omar Sacirbey Pennsylvania moves closer to legalizing medical cannabis, a New Mexico MMJ business gets hit with a five-figure fine, and crackdowns in two states highlight the dangers of operating in unregulated markets. Here’s a closer look at...
