Marijuana cultivation businesses hoping to grow cannabis for Louisiana State University under a new medical marijuana law have more time to make their case. LSU extended the deadline for growers to submit plans on how they would run the university’s MMJ cultivation...
Pineapple Express, which provides consulting, financial and real estate services to marijuana businesses, has been named in a lawsuit filed by three companies that allege the Los Angeles firm owes them nearly $685,000.
Pineapple Express CEO Matthew Feinstein stressed in an email to Marijuana Business Daily that a subsidiary the company has since sold is the target of the lawsuit, not Pineapple Express.
Eight years after its formation, a legislative committee tasked with overseeing Rhode Island's medical marijuana program will meet for the first time on March 28. It’s unclear why the "Legislative Oversight Commission of the Edward O. Hawkins and Thomas C. Slater...
Canada’s federally licensed medical marijuana cultivation companies have raised roughly 700 million Canadian dollars ($524 million) in the past six months, according to canna-centric analysis firm Canaccord Genuity. The investment frenzy started in the third quarter...
Arizona's Court of Appeals ruled that the former director of the state’s Department of Health Services did not violate the law when he decreed that doctors may recommend medical marijuana to treat only the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, not the illness...
About 200 Massachusetts liquor store owners are considering applying for recreational marijuana business licenses in a bid to capitalize on the state's new adult-use program. If approved, the liquor stores' entry would add a new wrinkle to the competitive landscape...
The CEO of one of Canada’s biggest medical marijuana cultivators wants to see the country’s public health department implement a strict system of product testing for cannabis companies after recent pesticide-related recalls. Marijuana...
Federal securities regulators charged a California company peddling marijuana vending machines and its founder with issuing bogus news releases that bragged about phony "record" sales and touted the business as an MJ industry leader. Much of Medbox's revenue, however,...
The city council in Oakland, California, expanded a groundbreaking but controversial cannabis business license program that supporters say is needed to help reverse the underrepresentation of minorities in the industry - while opponents charge the plan unfairly...
The Alaska Marijuana Control Board voted 4-1 to revive a proposal to allow and regulate on-site cannabis consumption at cannabis retail stores. Tuesday's vote was an about-face from a Feb. 2 meeting in which the board rejected a public consumption plan. Board member...
By Omar Sacirbey
Cannabis industry advocates in Massachusetts know changes are coming to the law that voters passed last November legalizing recreational marijuana.
But how modest or extreme those changes will be, and whether they’ll constrain the market, is less certain.
The top regulator in charge of Oregon's recreational marijuana program is stepping down, adding to a growing trend of cannabis overseers who are leaving the industry for the private sector. Rob Patridge said in a news release Tuesday he is resigning as chair of the...
