The U.S. Congress always has been slow to act, but that’s been especially true for marijuana reform, which has been a stigmatized issue for decades.
As a result, cannabis companies have been waiting and hoping for years that Congress will take action to guarantee banking access to law-abiding marijuana businesses and ease the excessive tax burden from 280E.
The California Growers Association (CGA) has dropped a lawsuit it filed a year ago against the state over a regulatory loophole that allowed commercial-scale cannabis farms to begin operating in 2018. In a Jan. 8 court filing in Superior Court of California in...
California’s fully legal recreational marijuana market is now more than a year old, but is it maturing?
Sort of.
The California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved final marijuana industry rules that regulators had published in December, paving the way for the state to implement a permanent regulatory framework for the nation's largest cannabis market. The regulations,...
A Los Angeles jury recently awarded what could be a record amount of damages to date in a legal business dispute over a marijuana grow and retail business. The case, which was first filed in November 2016Â in California Superior Court in L.A. County, came to a close on...
In his first state budget, California Gov. Gavin Newsom recommended a sharp increase in spending for marijuana regulatory programs. But it's an open question whether additional funding will be enough to help steady the state's cannabis economy. [include_post...
It shocked some cannabis industry watchers last year when Santa Barbara County developed front-runner status among California's 58 counties by accruing the most marijuana cultivation permits. Humboldt County - the centerpiece of the famed Emerald Triangle to the north...
A Massachusetts company specializing in cannabis technology, cultivation and support solutions unveiled a program aimed at bolstering entrepreneurs who were previously impacted by marijuana prohibition but now want to get into the plant-touching side of the MJ...
On Jan. 10, California's legal cannabis industry is expected to get even smaller. Medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives will become illegal without a state license that day, per guidance that the Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC)Â issued in January 2018....
Marijuana Business Daily caught up with Cat Packer, executive director of Los Angeles’ Department of Cannabis Regulation, to get her take on the city’s regulated market, and expectations for 2019.Â
Two new rulings from the U.S. Tax Court this week provided more guidance for cannabis companies dealing with 280E - and while one was hailed as a "Christmas present" to the industry, the other was a bit of a holiday downer. The first, which is a follow-up ruling...
The California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC) this week identified 29 separate companies that have been told to recall marijuana products after Sacramento-based Sequoia Analytical Labs' said its former lab director falsified pesticide test results. The BCC also...
