Pennsylvania ponders allowing smokable flower to combat a medical marijuana supply shortage, police in Juneau, Alaska, green light transporting cannabis on commercial airlines, and Idaho lawmakers shelve a CBD bill. Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in...
Florida medical cannabis producers are seeing increased sales thanks to their ability to deliver products to customers at home. Some companies report that up to 50% of their sales stems from home deliveries, according to the Fort Myers News-Press. Florida has 28...
A lack of physician buy-in for medical marijuana has stalled several nascent state MMJ programs, such as New York and Minnesota. It looks as though Pennsylvania MMJ companies may be able to sidestep that problem. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), one...
Oregon lawmakers have dedicated an extra $1.5 million to local law enforcement agencies to combat illegal cannabis businesses in poorer counties. According to The Register-Guard, the move was largely in response to a summit last month hosted...
The National Cannabis Industry Association is poised to roll out an initiative aimed at uniting dozens of state-level trade groups, a move designed to make it easier for member businesses to work together to promote legalization and pro-marijuana policies.
The honeymoon is over for Weedmaps and California's gray-market marijuana businesses. The California Bureau of Cannabis Control sent a cease-and-desist letter last month to Irvine-based Ghost Management Group, the owner of popular marijuana dispensary finder...
Massachusetts got closer Tuesday to making recreational marijuana sales in the state a reality this summer after the approval of final regulations for MJ companies. The state Cannabis Control Commission voted unanimously in support of the rules, Boston radio station...
A hearing on Florida's ban on smokable forms of medical cannabis will be heard by a circuit court judge in May. Leon County Judge Karen Gievers will hold a nonjury trial on May 16 to determine if the ban violates the 2016 state constitutional amendment that legalized...
It looks as if MJBizCon won't have to relocate its long-running November show. A Nevada gambling commission unanimously recommended Monday that a strict wall be maintained between casinos and the cannabis industry. However, the group also said it should remain...
One arena in which the cannabis industry has struggled to make serious gains is the stock market. Most plant-touching companies that are also publicly traded still live on the over-the-counter markets, dreaming of the day when they'll graduate to the Nasdaq or the New...
Massachusetts health regulators temporarily closed two medical marijuana dispensaries after a test came up positive for a pesticide. The dispensaries - which are owned by Healthy Pharms and are located in Cambridge and Georgetown - notified state officials of the test...
At least two medical marijuana companies have begun the first-ever legal harvest of their crops, signaling that the island nation is well on its way to becoming a full-fledged MMJ market. Kaya Farms reportedly started its harvest Feb. 20, the...
