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New Market: California awaits regulations before unleashing huge industry

California’s recreational marijuana market has the potential to dwarf all others as long as workable statewide regulations are ironed out, municipalities allow adult use and legal businesses can supplant the…

News January 12

Maine lawmakers seek to delay launch of rec industry

Lawmakers in Maine have introduced a bill that would postpone the start of the state’s recreational marijuana industry. The proposal, introduced by leaders of the state House and Senate, would extend…

News January 11

Arkansas to award 32 medical marijuana dispensary licenses

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission will issue 32 licenses for medical cannabis dispensaries once the application process begins. The commission on Tuesday also set dispensary license application fees at $7,500, Little…

News January 11

MedMen acquires troubled New York medical cannabis licensee

MedMen, a California-based marijuana management and consulting firm, has acquired Bloomfield Industries, a financially troubled New York cannabis business license holder that in recent months has been unable to pay vendors and…

News January 11
Becjy DeKeuster

New career, MMJ-rec tensions and cannabis under Trump: Q&A with pioneer Becky DeKeuster

By Omar Sacirbey Becky DeKeuster went from being a Catholic high school teacher to a cannabis pioneer who co-founded the Wellness Connection of Maine. DeKeuster helped Wellness Connection earn a…

News January 11

AG pick Sessions ‘won’t commit to never enforcing’ US law on MMJ

The murky legal situation between the federal government and states that have approved cannabis in some form was not made any clearer Tuesday when U.S. attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions…

News January 10

Marijuana Business Daily’s annual industry survey underway

Marijuana Business Daily has launched its annual survey of executives and major investors in the cannabis space, which will help the company provide key market, financial and operational data for businesses…

News January 10

Canadian medical cannabis biotech firm to get CA$4 million infusion

CannaRoyalty Corp., a marijuana-focused Canadian investment company, plans to pay 4 million in Canadian dollars ($3.03 million) for a 20% stake in Anandia Laboratories, a biotech firm that breeds and…

News January 10

Oregon received nearly 2K rec marijuana applications last year

The agency that governs Oregon’s recreational marijuana industry was swamped with nearly 2,000 adult-use business license applications in 2016, far above the 800-1,200 it expected. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission…

News January 10
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