As the cannabis plant awaits a high-stakes review from international health authorities, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking the public to weigh in on whether cannabis, CBD and other cannabis extracts should be declassified as a controlled substance.
The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) made a preliminary announcement in December that CBD has a low potential for abuse and shouldn’t be scheduled as a controlled substance.
Alaska's marijuana regulators have postponed until June action on draft rules for allowing people to consume adult-use cannabis in authorized retail stores. Erika McConnell, the director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, had recommended that the Marijuana...
North Dakota's Great Depression-era law banning corporate farming won't preclude horticulture operations from growing medical marijuana, provided it's not done on agricultural land, the state's attorney general has determined. The state health department sought...
Arkansas' attorney general is appealing a judge's order that forbids the state to license five companies to grow medical marijuana. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office on Friday filed a notice that it's appealing Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen's...
North Dakota has begun accepting applications from potential medical cannabis cultivators, though it's still unclear whether growers will need to comply with the state's anti-corporate farming law. The application period, which runs through April 19, is the latest...
North Dakota lawmakers on Monday signed off on rules for the state's developing medical marijuana program, a necessary move if MMJ sales are to begin later this year. The legislature's Administrative Rules Committee reviewed the dozens of pages of proposed rules that...
Legislation that could enable a Black farmer to receive a Florida license to grow medical marijuana is headed to the governor’s desk.
Arkansas cannabis regulators on Tuesday announced the five companies the state intends to license to grow medical marijuana under a voter-approved amendment that legalized MMJ for certain patients. The growers approved by the Medical Marijuana...
Nearly two months after California launched recreational marijuana sales, less than 1% of the state's known growers have been licensed, according to a report released by a cannabis industry group. According to a 38-page report from the California Growers Association,...
The director of the Nevada Department of Taxation, who also serves as the chief regulator of the state's fledgling adult-use marijuana industry, has announced her resignation. Deonne Contine will leave Feb. 9 to pursue an opportunity in the private sector....
The cannabis industry is poised for huge growth in 2018 thanks in part to the expected launch of several massive new marijuana markets such as California and Canada, which will generate billions of dollars in sales and create tens of thousands of business opportunities.
The changing business climate will lead to new challenges, struggles and, potentially, failures for companies and the individuals behind them.
As we hurtle into 2018, the editorial staff at Marijuana Business Magazine – which is published by Marijuana Business Daily – singled out 20 executives in the cannabis space who bear watching in the year ahead.
A Republican lawmaker has persuaded nearly the entire Arizona legislature to sign on in support of his proposal to require medical marijuana to be tested for mold and agricultural chemicals. The proposal from Sen. Sonny Borrelli would appropriate $2 million from the...
