The U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico has made good on its governor's executive order from last year to legalize medical cannabis. On Thursday, the Puerto Rican Health Department announced it had promulgated rules for the upcoming industry, according to the...
Five men who were arrested last summer when a medical cannabis dispensary was raided by local police have now been formally charged, and could each face more than a decade in prison. When Advance Medical Care in Shelby Township was raided last July, it wasn't...
The four dispensaries open to date in Massachusetts are having a hard time keeping up with demand, especially because they can't get enough inventory to satisfy all of the registered patients clamoring for cannabis. According to The Boston Globe, the quartet of...
By John Schroyer The world has taken enormous strides in relaxing marijuana laws as of late. Nearly 20 countries have legalized cannabis possession and consumption to some degree (primarily for medical purposes), including Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Jamaica, Italy...
John Morgan is a man of his word. After a narrow defeat in the 2014 election, Morgan, a millionaire Orlando attorney who almost single-handedly bankrolled the Florida MMJ campaign, vowed that the issue would return this year if the legislature didn't legalize medical...
Talk about planning big. Minnesota-based Vireo Health, the parent company of Minnesota Medical Solutions, announced this week that it's attempting to raise $31.5 million in equity financing in order to fund expansion into between 17 and 20 new states, according to the...
By John Schroyer It took some time, but edibles manufacturers have finally figured out ways to expand beyond their home states and begin developing national - even international - brands. The pace has accelerated in recent months, with numerous established edibles...
Alaska has cemented rules governing its emerging recreational marijuana industry, giving entrepreneurs an idea of what it will take to run a cannabis business in the state. The rules notably allow for on-site consumption at retail shops, a landmark move that is thus...
Hemp farmers in Oregon are getting more interested in the potential medical uses of their crops instead of the traditional industrial ones. The Oregon Department of Agriculture is poised to begin reissuing licenses for hemp growers in the state next month. As...
An Israeli company has released a new and innovative product line that may be something of a gamble: a non-psychoactive line of flavor additives derived from marijuana terpenes. The company, Eybna Technologies, announced the new line in a press release, claiming that...
Heading into the last month that local California governments can take regulatory action on marijuana before a new state law kicks in, more than 160 jurisdictions have either approved or introduced bans on medical cannabis growing. The "banapalooza," as the California...
A new threat to legalizing recreational cannabis in Massachusetts has emerged from a unexpected source: a lobbyist with ties to the state's medical marijuana industry. Daniel Delaney, a registered lobbyist for the dispensary company Patriot Care and at least one other...
