Florida’s medical marijuana market is expanding quickly, thanks in large part to the rapidly growing number of physicians certified to recommend MMJ. There are more than 1,200 doctors in Florida who can recommend medical marijuana, up from roughly 300 when voters...
By Omar Sacirbey A major bank’s decision to close accounts tied to the Marijuana Policy Project and NORML put cannabis advocacy groups on high alert, with some fearing the start of a concerted attack on the MJ movement by the Trump administration. But the groups say...
The owner of a medical marijuana company that’s seeking final approval for a dispensary license in Maryland is under federal investigation for workplace discrimination stemming from a previous business, a situation the state’s embattled medical marijuana commission had no knowledge of.
According to the Capital Gazette, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court alleging that David Podrog – owner of Advanced Alternative Therapies near Baltimore – discriminated against Hispanic employees of an Annapolis car wash under his ownership.
In the latest example of a mainstream company getting involved with the marijuana industry, Netflix recently partnered with a California medical marijuana dispensary to develop and sell 12 cannabis strains based on 10 of the company's shows. The entertainment and...
New York's Medical Cannabis Industry Association (MCIA) has changed law firms in its lawsuit to stop the state’s health department from issuing new medical marijuana business licenses. The trade group - which represents the five vertically integrated marijuana...
By Omar Sacirbey Many marijuana businesses sell goods based on strain names, but those days could be coming to an end. More industry participants seemingly are starting to view strain names as unreliable indicators of a plant’s genetics and what types of cannabinoids...
Ohio regulators don't expect to issue the state's first medical marijuana cultivator licenses until around November, at least a month later than growers expected. The new timeline could delay the startup of the state's MMJ program beyond the planned September 2018...
Legal marijuana businesses shouldn't be worried about a federal crackdown, a panel of experts from the legal, political and policy realms said. According to The Boston Globe, the panelists reasoned that the federal government won’t go after marijuana businesses...
Florida has approved two more business licenses for medical marijuana treatment centers, increasing to 11 the number of companies authorized to grow, process and distribute MMJ. The Florida Department of Health on Wednesday issued approval letters to the Sun Bulb...
Since founding Auntie Dolores’ edibles company in Oakland nearly a decade ago, Julianna Carella has seen many changes in California’s medical marijuana sector, particularly in infused products. She says California has made great strides in nine years - "the labs...
Marijuana businesses in Clark County, Nevada – which includes Las Vegas – will have to be careful about how they promote their businesses or risk penalties or even a loss of licenses.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration wants to reduce the amount of marijuana and other drugs it plans to produce for research purposes. The DEA's goal is to decrease the amount of marijuana from 472,000 grams - about 1,040 pounds - it allotted in 2017 to 443,680...
