This may be the strangest marijuana-related story you read all week. A Russian cannabis company has paid more than $200,000 for the rights to Ebola.com, according to Time Magazine. The company, Weed Growth Fund, threw down $50,000 in cash and nearly 20,000 shares of...
A Washington State sheriff has a message about marijuana for Oregon voters. "The sky hasn't fallen," King County Sheriff John Urquhart said in a recent interview with The Associated Press, referring to Washington's new recreational cannabis industry. Urquhart went so...
By John Schroyer and Chris Walsh Hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries and recreational shops across the country abruptly lost their cashless ATM accounts on Wednesday with no explanation, according to sources close to the situation. One insider told Marijuana...
The first country in the world to fully legalize the sale and possession of recreational cannabis may take a huge step backwards if a presidential candidate has his way. National Party candidate Luis Lacalle Pou said publicly that he will attempt to repeal many parts...
Obtain a state permit or shut down. That's the gist of a letter Seattle's Department of Planning and Processing sent to 330 medical marijuana businesses across the city recently. The agency warned the businesses that they have until July - or possibly as late as Jan....
By John Schroyer What the heck is going on in Florida? That's the question many cannabis entrepreneurs are asking after the release of several new polls showing vastly different support levels for a medical marijuana legalization measure that will appear on the...
Nevada lawmakers will tackle the recreational marijuana issue early next year, whether they're ready to or not. Advocates have reportedly collected more than 100,000 signatures for a measure that would legalize the production, sale and use of recreational cannabis. As...
A Colorado company attempting to develop THC breathalyzers is getting some help from the state - in the form of a sizable cash infusion. Lifeloc Technologies was recently awarded a $250,000 grant by the Colorado Office of Economic Development to develop the...
Cannabis growers of a different stripe can begin submitting applications to the Missouri government next month for licenses to cultivate hemp. Missouri is one of several states that passed legislation this year permitting the cultivation and use of high-CBD, low-THC...
Colorado edibles manufacturers can let out a sigh of relief. A proposal on Monday to ban nearly all marijuana-infused edibles in the Centennial State was torpedoed almost as quickly as it arose after word of the suggestion spread across the Internet and social media...
Several businesses have taken a big step forward in their quest to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Chicago. City zoning officials awarded special use permits last week to three groups seeking dispensary licenses. The trio still must win approval from the state,...
San Francisco, which was at the forefront of the medical marijuana movement a decade ago, has developed a case of cold feet when it comes to a proposed expansion of its MMJ industry. The city's Planning Commission has decided to wait until December to make a decision...
