As marijuana use broadens across the age and culture spectrum, the products that will get the most traction are not the ones that get the most attention: namely, very high potency cannabis. Rather, many of the more popular products will be - and already are - much...
By John Schroyer The Marijuana Policy Project's executive director is threatening to spend thousands of dollars to disrupt a pair of Arizona dispensaries, saying a key staffer of the businesses who also headed up MPP's campaign to legalize recreational cannabis in the...
By John Schroyer By some measures, the Arizona cannabis market is riding high. The state reported $112 million in sales in 2014, making it one of the largest MMJ industries in the country. That number is set to get even bigger this year, and Arizona is one of the...
The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) says Tom Burns, the former head of marijuana programs in the state, was terminated from his post because he leaked sensitive documents to lobbyists for cannabis growers and dispensaries. Burns was directly involved in the...
Tommy Chong is expanding his marijuana empire. According to a press release, Bud Genius will take over managing licensing and production of Chong products in California. The deal covers assurance, quality control, overseeing distribution, building customer loyalty...
A study released last week backs up what many in the marijuana industry view as a foregone political conclusion: recreational marijuana is ahead in the polls in California. The Public Policy Institute of California's survey found that 53% of state residents support...
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman filed a formal response with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday regarding a lawsuit from the attorneys general of Nebraska and Oklahoma, who are asking the nation’s high court to nullify Colorado’s recreational marijuana law.
Only a fraction of expected medical marijuana patients have signed up so far for Illinois’ MMJ program, opponents of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts are getting louder as the 2016 campaign season approaches, and Mexican cartels that used to rely on marijuana trafficking in the U.S. are taking a hit.
Under a new bill in the Colorado Legislature, the state would create established testing standards for cannabis. The measure, House Bill 1283, would set up a "reference library" for labs to help ensure that methodologies and therefore testing results become more...
By next year, legendary 81-year-old performer and noted cannabis fan Willie Nelson plans to have his own recreational marijuana shops and eponymous brand of marijuana to smoke. In doing so, Nelson becomes the latest in a string of celebrities who have gotten into the...
Georgia is poised to become the next state in the union to legally allow marijuana to be used as a treatment for a handful of ailments, but there’s a big question mark: how patients will obtain their cannabis.
The small but slowly growing patient base in Illinois' medical marijuana program has some businesses concerned, and apparently reluctance on the part of physicians to prescribe MMJ may be partly to blame for the situation. Despite possibly tens of thousands of...
