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Credit Card Companies Barring Dispensary Owners From Opening Accounts for Other Businesses

Dispensary owners affected by credit card companies' moves to cut ties with the medical marijuana industry in recent years could find it exceedingly difficult to open merchant accounts for other…

News May 14
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Weekly Wrap-Up: 100s of California Dispensaries to Close? + Final Marijuana Regulations in Colorado

If it isn’t one thing for California’s medical marijuana industry, it’s another. The MMJ business climate in the state is as turbulent as it gets, with dispensaries and related businesses…

News May 13
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Bright Marijuana Business Outlook: 80% of Ancillary Cannabis Firms Expect ‘Big’ or Moderate Growth

The future of the marijuana industry is extremely bright, at least if you ask those who have hitched their wagon to it. Roughly 80% of executives at ancillary cannabis companies…

News May 10
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Top 20 Business-Related Aspects of Colorado’s Recreational Marijuana Regulations

Colorado entered the cannabis history books yet again yesterday, becoming the first state in the nation to officially pass regulations covering the cultivation and sale of marijuana for adult use.…

News May 9
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Rob Hunt: Massachusetts Dispensary Regulations Will Create Shotgun Marriages, Boost Risk

By Robert E. Hunt So you want to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts? Before you go any further, you may want to examine what you’re up against. The…

News May 9
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Dispensary Raids, Warning Letters Stoke Fears of Renewed Crackdown on Cannabis Businesses

The headlines coming out of California and Washington state over the past few weeks conjure up memories of last spring, when the medical marijuana industry was under assault on many…

News May 8
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Fallout From CA Ruling: More Dispensary Bans, Uncertainty…and Pressure for Statewide Regs

The California Supreme Court’s landmark ruling yesterday allowing cities to outlaw cannabis dispensaries leaves the local medical marijuana industry in disarray, ensuring that a confusing patchwork of bans continues to…

News May 7
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Weekly Wrapup: Medical Cannabis Funding Climate Improving Amid New Deals, Developments

The medical marijuana industry may have finally turned a corner on the financing front, as evidenced by two important developments last week: #1. Five ancillary cannabis companies received a combined…

News May 6
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Medical Marijuana Inc. on the Defensive After Outside Criticism Sets Shareholders on Edge

One of the more prominent publicly traded cannabis companies has come under fire recently in blogs and stock message boards for its financial accounting methods and other issues, spooking investors…

News May 3
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