U.S. health officials were once again cautioning the public to refrain from using vaping products as related respiratory illnesses and even deaths continued to be disclosed last week. As of Friday, officials linked at least five fatalities to e-cigarettes...
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Police investigating rash of cannabis retail robberies in California capital
Police in Sacramento, California, are looking into roughly 10 break-ins at local marijuana shops in the past month, with the possibility the incidents might be connected. Such robberies apparently have escalated, according to West Sacramento...
Massachusetts launches initiative to get more minorities in cannabis space
Black entrepreneurs in Massachusetts who say people of color are being shut out of the lucrative marijuana industry are joining forces to close the gap. Real Action for Cannabis Equity (RACE) launched Thursday in Boston. Its founders say the coalition will work to...
California county shutters record illegal grow with 63,000 marijuana plants
Authorities in the famed wine country of Sonoma County, California, shut down the largest illegal marijuana grow operation in the county's history, seizing roughly 63,000 unlicensed cannabis plants. County inspectors with the Permit and Resource Management Department...
Medicine Man Technologies’ acquisition of CO marijuana firm its ninth this year
A buying spree by Denver-based Medicine Man Technologies continues, with a deal announced Wednesday to buy Colorado Harvest Co. and its three cannabis storefronts for $12.5 million. Medicine Man Technologies said it is paying $4 million in cash and 2.8 million shares...
Los Angeles opens next marijuana licensing round for 100 retail permits
Los Angeles, the largest marijuana market in the world, opened a two-week window on Tuesday for qualified social equity applicants interested in getting a retail cannabis permit.
Medicine Man Technologies buying five Colorado cannabis stores
Denver-based Medicine Man Technologies, a vertically integrated marijuana retailer, announced Tuesday it’s acquiring five Colorado cannabis shops from Starbuds in a $31 million cash and stock deal.
Michigan officials issue marijuana recall for four products
The Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency issued a health bulletin recalling four cannabis products because of an ongoing investigation of an MJ testing lab whose business license was suspended last month. All four products apparently failed...
Recreational marijuana business owners in Washington state look back
A half-decade ago, Washington state’s cannabis business owners took the reins of the country’s second recreational marijuana market behind Colorado, and they’ve learned plenty from their mistakes in that time.
California cannabis company accused of breach of contract, fraud
The owners of a high-profile marijuana shop in Southern California - Santa Ana's 420 Central - are accused in a lawsuit of defrauding investors. The suit, filed in Orange County Superior Court of California, contains a host of salacious allegations, including one that...
Weedmaps-linked marijuana manufacturing, distribution venture poised to proceed in West Sacramento, California
A company that's aiming to become a licensed cannabis business hub in West Sacramento, California, with ties to the online marijuana advertising site Weedmaps is poised to proceed - if the City Council gives its approval Sept. 4. The development comes on the heels of...
Chart: California marijuana market experiences license contraction in 2019
Before January 2018, when California launched its legal recreational marijuana market, estimates of how many dispensaries peppered the state’s landscape were in the thousands.












