A recent trio of polls suggest that attitudes toward cannabis reform continue to spread, with support for marijuana legalization evident in Florida, New Hampshire and Canada. In Florida, 65% of voters said they will vote for one of the two medical marijuana...
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Massachusetts MMJ bottleneck moves from state to local level
By Omar Sacirbey The opening of two new dispensaries in Massachusetts since the start of the year has buoyed hopes that the state's medical cannabis industry has moved past a serious bottleneck and that more storefronts will launch in the coming months. Don’t count on...
Australian Medical Cannabis Firm Raises $3.59 Million
An Australian medical cannabis company has raised $3.59 million ($5 million Australian) in an institutional placement, according to Business News of Australia. The company - MMJ Phytotech, which develops medical cannabis pills, capsules and dosage regulators -...
Rec legalization no slam dunk in Vermont
One of the prime states expected to legalize adult use cannabis this year via its legislature may not get across the goal line after all. A legalization bill won a narrow victory in the Vermont state Senate last week, but getting a legalization bill passed in the...
First Things First
When “marijuana” and “state trooper” are used in the same sentence, it usually means someone is in trouble.
Not so if you’re referring to marijuana and Mark Lally, a decorated retired state trooper who runs the only medical cannabis dispensary currently operating in Delaware. Lally opened First State Compassion Center on June 26, 2015, after experiencing bureaucratic holdups and construction delays.
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Soft-spoken, clean-cut and often donning a crisp shirt, tie and suit, Brendan Kennedy doesn’t exactly scream rebel.
But the 43-year-old co-founder and CEO of Privateer Holdings could be considered somewhat of a rule-breaker, at least inside his company.
Nevada Tribe Getting Into MMJ Business
On Monday, the Native American footprint in the cannabis industry got a little bigger. The Las Vegas Paiute Tribe announced that it is partnering with Ultra Health, a medical marijuana production business based in Scottsdale, Arizona, to open two dispensaries and a...
Problems Looming as AZ Preps for New MMJ Licensing Round
The lottery system used to award medical cannabis licenses in Arizona is at least partly to blame for a reported deluge of business lawsuits regarding the industry, but there are other problems the state will have to face as well as it prepares to issue new dispensary...
Colorado Court Finds Some Legal Marijuana Insurable
A U.S. District Court Judge in Colorado ruled this month that legal marijuana is insurable under commercial property policies, according to Lexology.com. The ruling came in a case in which the plaintiff, The Green Earth Wellness Center, which operates a medical...
Rec License Application Process Begin in Alaska
Alaska opened its adult use marijuana business license application process on Wednesday, with 68 businesses starting their online paperwork, according to a release from the state’s Alcohol & Marijuana Control Office. The state’s Marijuana Control Board (MCB) will...
Kentucky Entrepreneur Vows to Buy All the State’s Hemp
Grow it and he will buy it. John Roulac, the founder and CEO of a major hemp foods company, Nutiva, said he plans to buy all the organic hemp that Kentucky can produce, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. But labeling hemp as organic has been a controversial...
Canadian Court’s Ruling Could Put Dent in Cannabis Sales
The 29 licensed medical marijuana producers in Canada could face a new financial squeeze following a federal judge’s ruling on Wednesday that registered MMJ patients can grow their own cannabis. Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan struck down what is known as the...




