California-based marijuana retailer MedMen disclosed that a content production firm it paid wound up promoting the company's stock through at least one online article, a move that drew scrutiny from U.S. over-the-counter trading officials. According to a news release,...
There are 58 bills pending before the California Legislature in 2019 that include the word “cannabis” or “marijuana,” which means the state’s industry could be in for another tumultuous year of big changes.
Oklahoma's new medical marijuana market is continuing to blossom, hitting more than $7.2 million in sales in February alone. That's up from $4.3 million in January, after a $1 million sales month in December, the first full month of MMJ sales...
Two marijuana companies both named "Harvest" are heading to court over the rights to the title, and both are claiming trademark protections for their respective companies. The case is far from the only cannabis dispute over a company name. One key to the Harvest case...
California state marijuana regulators announced Friday they are accepting grant applications from cities and counties that are implementing social equity programs for local cannabis businesses. The state's Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) will award $10 million to...
A California Senate panel on Wednesday advanced a bill – dubbed a “Band-Aid” by one sponsor – in a last-minute bid to prevent thousands of marijuana companies from being temporarily forced out of the legal market and causing chaos in the state’s marijuana supply chain.
But the move is likely to be in vain, at least in the short term.
A California cannabis distributor has lost the first round in what could prove to be an important test case in determining the role of the federal government in cracking down on marijuana companies. A state judge in California Superior Court in San Francisco County...
A legal case between two competing Los Angeles cannabis consulting firms that appeared to be shaping up last year as a serious courtroom brawl has apparently come to a close. Siva Enterprises filed suit last August against Cirrata Ventures and several of the company's...
“The year of stability.”
That’s what Lindsay Robinson, executive director of the California Cannabis Industry Association, is hoping 2019 will become in the Golden State.
And it very well could play out that way, especially compared to the roller-coaster turbulence California’s cannabis market experienced in 2018.
But there are many who would scoff at that notion.
In what is perhaps a potential lesson to other marijuana entrepreneurs as they attempt to navigate a plethora of environmental rules, a trio of California marijuana farmers were recently hit with nearly a quarter million dollars in fines in relation to infractions surrounding water regulations.
A small credit union in Sonoma County, California, is hitting pause on processing applications for marijuana companies because it’s trying to deal with a backlog of cannabis businesses clamoring for financial services.
A rural California county has begun the process of reversing a commercial marijuana cultivation ban established in January 2018, in what could prove to be a major win for cannabis growers in the region. The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors told staff to begin...
