A lawsuit against the federal government on which several cannabis legalization advocates had pinned their hopes has officially lost. At least its first legal battle, anyway. Judge Alvin Hellerstein, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...
And the winner is ... The Coffee Joint. That's the moniker of a proposed coffee shop that wants to allow customers to vape cannabis and use edibles onsite under a social-use permit it was awarded Monday, The Denver Post reported. The company...
West Virginia's medical marijuana board will recommend that state lawmakers allow patients who meet certain requirements to buy smokable forms of the medicine, a move that could boost MMJ sales. Such a move would also buck a trend in several other states that have...
The first medical cannabis sale in Louisiana could take place by the end of summer.
Less than two months after California's legal cannabis industry launched on New Year's Day, state officials are starting to target hundreds of marijuana companies that are operating illegally without a license. The state's Bureau of Cannabis Control has sent out about...
Six companies that lost out in November when Ohio awarded 24 medical marijuana cultivation permits have filed suit against the state's Department of Commerce over what they allege was a "flawed scoring process." According to The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, the six...
The Hershey Co. , perhaps the world’s most famous confectioner, has apparently ramped up its oversight of trademark infringements by marijuana operators.
The Ohio Department of Commerce is weighing the addition of a 25th medical marijuana cultivation business permit to the 24 it's already handed out. According to WOSU Public Media, the department admitted in a letter to state Auditor Dave Yost that errors in the MMJ...
Michigan has released an official symbol to label medical marijuana products that are sold in the state and is detailing required label information for such goods. The symbol is an upside-down green triangle with an image of a green marijuana...
Detroit officials said they plan to file a formal legal challenge to two medical marijuana laws that were approved by city voters last year. The laws, if implemented, could greatly expand the city's MMJ industry footprint. According to the Detroit Free Press, the...
Los Angeles has issued licenses to nearly 100 marijuana retailers, but police estimate there are at least double that number operating illegally in the city and undercutting cannabis businesses that are playing by the rules. Police have shut down eight illegal...
Colorado’s junior senator, Republican Cory Gardner, blinked first in a standoff with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
According to the Denver Post, Gardner said he will stop blocking appointees from the Department of Justice in retaliation for Sessions’ revocation last month of several nonbinding cannabis-related policy memos.
