Arizona marijuana advocates who believe that opponents to their legalization efforts won’t put up a fight better think again. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and two prominent prohibitionist lawyers in the state are putting on a March 2 workshop on how to defeat...
For perhaps the first time in history, cannabis advocates lined up outside a new medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts...not to welcome it, but to protest it. Why? Because they say a lobbyist tied to the dispensary's parent company opposes ending prohibition...
Washington State’s Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) is cracking down on illegal pesticide use in the marijuana industry, but it has yet to issue product recalls against offending cultivators.
By Omar Sacirbey Hawaii may be a tropical paradise for tourists, but companies that win licenses to grow and sell medical cannabis in the state might feel as if they're in purgatory for a while. Businesses will face enormous challenges at first because of high...
What's one way that the marijuana sector is similar to any other industry? Those trying to play by the rules can still get taken advantage of by corrupt government overseers. Case in point: A Washington State jury has found an Internal Revenue Service agent guilty of...
Dispensaries in Massachusetts are now allowed to sell more than double the amount of medical marijuana to patients than they could before, and move that could help boost industry revenues significantly. State health officials raised the amount of medicine that medical...
Snoop Dogg keeps finding new cannabis-related business ventures, and now, the longtime marijuana enthusiast has forged a partnership with Canadian MMJ cultivator Tweed.
Some good news for Nevada's medical cannabis businesses: the number of MMJ patients in the state may more than quadruple in coming years, according to a state health official. Nevada is receiving about 300 medical marijuana card applications per month. If that pace...
In a reminder that cannabis businesses are still not immune from federal law enforcement - even in states with legal marijuana - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents recently searched the homes of the owners of a THC extractor and seller in Oregon. DEA agents...
A new bill introduced Wednesday in California would impose a 15% percent tax on medical marijuana sales to pay for state programs and enforce new regulations, according to SFGate.com. But the Marijuana Value Tax Act, as the bill is known, may not be the only expense...
The Anchorage City Assembly finalized its regulations for the upcoming recreational marijuana industry on Tuesday night, tweaking buffer zone rules, prohibiting small-scale commercial grows and taking other steps. The new rules reduce the required distance between...
Nationally known chef Mindy Segal and Cresco Labs are partnering to produce a line of marijuana-infused sweets.
