A Florida judge on Tuesday lifted a stay on smoking medical marijuana, opening up new revenue potential for the state's MMJ businesses. Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers upheld her May 25 ruling that the Florida Legislature's provision banning smokable...
Southern University in Louisiana has contracted with a company to run the school's medical marijuana program, but the firm's principals are embroiled in an ownership struggle. According to The Advocate, the Baton Rouge university said Thursday it had signed a contract...
The chief executive of one of Minnesota’s two medical marijuana manufacturers has left the company after years of financial losses.
Andrew Bachman, LeafLine Labs’ co-founder and its chief executive since 2016, is no longer with the company “in any official capacity,” the company said Thursday in a statement to the Associated Press.
Medical marijuana businesses would be permitted to sell MMJ to treat more diseases and disorders under two bills that are steps from final passage. Doctors could recommend medical cannabis for five conditions contained in House Bill 579, which Senators approved 25-9...
The top prosecutor in Utah's largest city is speaking out in support of an effort to legalize medical marijuana. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said Tuesday that using medical cannabis should be a decision between a patient and a doctor rather than a...
The number of retail cannabis shops in Fairbanks, Alaska, has been set at 25. After the City Council deadlocked 3-3 on whether to allow 15 or 25 stores, Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly was called in to break the tie, the Daily News-Miner reported. He voted to set the...
The lawsuit filed by a construction worker who was badly burned after an explosion and fire at an Oregon marijuana extraction facility has been settled. Jacob Magley filed an $8.9 million suit in February 2017 against Jason Oei and William "Chris" West, who leased the...
A ballot drive to legalize recreational marijuana in Michigan has cleared a key hurdle. The state's elections board said Thursday that organizers of a ballot drive to legalize adult use have collected enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. According to...
A CBD treatment for epilepsy is closer to becoming the first cannabis medicine approved for the U.S. market.
It’s shaping up to be a watershed summer for the cannabis industry with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration poised to approve the first drug made from the plant.
Cannabis business owners increasingly must confront a workplace reality that mainstream companies have faced for generations: organized labor.
Front and center is the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which is aggressively seeking cannabis workers to join its ranks.
Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana in South Dakota have failed to bring the matter to a public vote. A petition to put medical marijuana on the ballot for the state's November general election was rejected because it didn't have enough...
