Harborside Health Center – the prominent medical cannabis dispensary in Oakland led by well-known pot activist Steve DeAngelo – announced today that it has filed a petition protesting the $2.4 million bill it received from the IRS for back taxes after a long, drawn-out audit. Last year, the IRS ruled that the California dispensary owed […]
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Altitude Organic to Buy Colorado Marijuana Dispensaries Amid Cannabis Industry Consolidation
Owners of Colorado cannabis dispensaries who want to get out of the medical marijuana industry or simply turn a quick profit might find their savior in Arizona-based Altitude Organic Corp. The company announced recently that it plans to make formal bids for a handful of medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, saying it has identified cannabis […]
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Washington DC Medical Marijuana Symposium to Unite Cannabis Dispensaries, Pot Growers
The Washington DC cannabis scene is heating up, with medical pot dispensaries and marijuana growers gearing up to start serving MMJ patients. To help the DC medical marijuana industry get off on the right foot, a local law office is hosting a first-of-its-kind meeting in DC that will bring together individuals who submitted applications to […]
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Need Business Investors for Your Cannabis Dispensary? Our Financing Toolkit Can Help
Starting a medical marijuana dispensary is an expensive endeavor. Pot entrepreneurs must shell out a small fortune for everything from grow equipment and security systems to MMJ registration fees and building modifications. The costs can multiply quickly once the business is up and running, particularly if an upgrade or expansion is on the horizon. So […]
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18 States Considering Medical Marijuana Laws in 2012 Despite Pressure on Cannabis Business
Medical marijuana raids in California, Colorado, Washington and other states make newspaper headlines seemingly every morning. Pot dispensary bans, moratoriums on weed dispensaries and community protests lead the nightly newscast. Speculation about what the federal government might do next fills online MMJ chat rooms. Given all the negative news, one would think that medical marijuana […]
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Officials Attempt to Iron Out Washington Medical Cannabis Laws After Tumultuous Year for MMJ
Lawmakers are trying once again to tweak medical pot laws in Washington State in a bid to come up with a long-lasting solution that will appease marijuana dispensaries, cannabis patients, local governments and the population at large. Good luck with that. Crafting a medical marijuana regulatory structure that all sides can agree on will be […]
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Weekly Wrapup: Government Shows it’s Serious About Cracking Down on Medical Cannabis, Pot Shops
If you think the federal government is playing a game of chicken with the medical marijuana community, you are sorely mistaken. It became abundantly clear last week that the Obama administration is serious about cracking down on the cannabis industry. Rather than try to simply scare individuals away from the medical marijuana industry by making […]
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Judge Orders Gov. Brewer to Implement Arizona Pot Dispensary Program, Nixes Licensing Restrictions
Some people just don’t know when to quit. That seems to be the case with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, whose efforts to halt the state’s medical marijuana program and prevent pot shops from opening continue to come up short. Brewer lost another key battle in her war against medical weed this week when a state […]
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Medical Marijuana Business Alliance to Discuss Colorado Pot Crackdown During Tonight’s Meeting
It’s been a rough start to the new year for Colorado medical marijuana businesses, which find themselves in the crosshairs as the Drug Enforcement Agency widens its assault on the cannabis industry. So it’s an ideal time for the Medical Marijuana Business Alliance – a trade organization for the state’s MMJ industry – to hold […]
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Marijuana Raids Target Four San Diego Dispensaries as DEA Continues to Close California Pot Shops
The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has raided several medical marijuana businesses in San Diego over the past week, highlighting the Obama administration’s efforts to conduct a sustained crackdown on California pot shops. In the latest series of marijuana raids, agents served warrants at four San Diego dispensaries, forcing the MMJ businesses to shut down and […]
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Weekly Wrapup: Crackdown in Colorado + Dispensaries to Launch in Arizona
Two very different developments emerged in the MMJ industry at the end of last week, one immensely negative and one immensely positive for medical cannabis. First, the bad news: The federal government shifted the focus of its crackdown from the West Coast to Colorado, demanding that nearly two dozen dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools […]
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Arizona to Move Forward With MMJ, Start Issuing Marijuana Dispensary Licenses After Long Delay
It’s a great day for MMJ in Arizona…and for the entire medical cannabis industry. After a nine-month delay that threatened to completely derail the state’s budding medical marijuana industry, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has directed Department of Health Services officials to “begin accepting and processing dispensary applications and issuing licenses for those facilities” in the […]
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