One of Canada’s largest medical marijuana producers, Canopy Growth Corp., has increased a subsidiary's production and processing capacity by almost threefold through the purchase of a former candy factory and the 42-acre site it sits on for 6.6 million Canadian...
Maine Gov. Paul LePage reversed his initial opposition and signed a bill delaying the rollout of the state’s adult-use cannabis program by a few months.
Hoping to increase its medical marijuana patient numbers, MMJ business operator Etain Health in New York will introduce a repeat customer discount plan for purchases of its medicine. It's the latest incentive offered by one of the state's five licensed MMJ operators,...
Headspace, a multimillion-dollar marijuana oil company in Southern California that sells a product called The Clear, filed a trademark infringement suit against a Washington state MJ cultivator, Podworks, for using the name Top Shelf Clear for one of its products. The...
Medical marijuana patients in Arizona bought a record 29 tons of cannabis products in 2016, a 53% increase over the 19 tons that were purchased in 2015, according to a report from the state Department of Health Services. The sales surge could be attributed to an...
San Diego and San Francisco, two of the most populous cities in California, moved to delay cannabis-related businesses. The San Diego City Council on Tuesday unanimously extended a moratorium on recreational marijuana retailers until December, and the San Francisco...
Israel’s Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry plans to spend 8 million shekels ($2.1 million) on research into cannabis cultivation, biochemistry and medicine. The government is hopeful the research will lead to cannabis-based therapeutic products, the Times of...
Roor, one of the best-known names in cannabis smoking utensils, has filed almost 200 lawsuits since 2013 to protect its trademark against smoke shop and convenience store owners in California, Florida and New York for allegedly selling counterfeit products bearing the...
Hawaii saw a 16.6% increase in registered medical marijuana patients in 2016, a great sign for the state's eight licensed dispensaries preparing to open soon. There were 15,334 medical marijuana patients registered in Hawaii in December, an increase of 2,184 patients...
A Toronto-based cannabis, coffee and clothing business, Tokyo Smoke, secured 3 million Canadian dollars ($2.25 million) from investors, claiming it's the first marijuana-related consumer brand in Canada to raise capital. The company, which describes itself as a...
Regulators in Guam have received at least 40 applications for medical cannabis business licenses since the application process opened Wednesday (Tuesday in U.S.). An official predicted MMJ sales could start as soon as summer for certain medical qualifying conditions,...
Brazil's health care regulator, ANVISA, handed out the nation's first license for the sale of a cannabis-based drug - one designed for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. According to Reuters, U.K.-based GW Pharmaceuticals PLC developed the marijuana-based oral...
