Law enforcement officials in Santa Barbara County, California, seized a whopping 400,000 marijuana plants from an illegal cultivation site. That's the "largest to date" found in the county since the launch of the regulated market, according to a news release from the...
The California Bureau of Cannabis Control on Friday announced the approval of a dozen annual marijuana business permits for 10 retail locations, one distributor and one event organizer.
The same Florida politician who saw two of her bank accounts closed this year after voicing support for medical cannabis is now spearheading a Democratic push for a state-run bank to service the medical marijuana industry. Nikki Fried, who is...
California has issued its first full annual cannabis business permits, doling out two recreational cultivation licenses to Forbidden Fruit Farms in Humboldt County as well as one recreational and medicinal manufacturing permit to Om Edibles in the Bay Area.
The cultivation licenses were issued over the weekend by the state Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and the manufacturing permit on Monday by the Department of Public Health (CDPH).
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission issued a formal hold on all products from one of the state's licensed medical marijuana growers, prohibiting those goods from being sold until further notice. But the agency hasn't given a clear reason for its decision....
The owner and six employees of an unlicensed cannabis store in Los Angeles were arrested and charged with misdemeanors, according to the California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC). The shop, One Stop Healers, was the subject of a search warrant served by the BCC and...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Josephine County against the state of Oregon over legalized cannabis. The suit, filed in April, contended the federal law that prohibits marijuana pre-empts Oregon's law legalizing cannabis for commercial sales. U.S....
New York’s cannabis industry is changing quickly with the expansion of home medical marijuana delivery, and now there’s also news that liquor stores are aiming to enter the MJ space.
The biggest bottleneck to the development and expansion of the legal cannabis industry across California has been local governments banning commercial marijuana companies. That roadblock could morph into more of a speed bump after the November election, when at least...
California’s proposed marijuana business regulations continue to evolve, this time in an updated draft of permanent industry rules released Friday by state officials.
The proposed rules – from the state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control, Department of Food and Agriculture and Department of Public Health – touch on areas including marijuana delivery, packaging and events.
In November 2016, the U.S. marijuana industry was aflutter over both the election of President Donald Trump and his nearly immediate appointment of then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general.
Worries abounded among cannabis industry executives that Sessions would resurrect the war on drugs.
California's cannabis cultivation market is a maze of farms that run the gamut from cottage growers with a few dozen plants to commercial-sized industrial operations. That also means the scope of business difficulties - and opportunities - are wide-ranging in the...
