Month: September 2017 (Page 30)

By John Schroyer A key federal law protecting the medical marijuana industry from interference by the U.S. Department of Justice has been extended until Dec. 8 under the provisions of an emergency aid package approved Friday by Congress, Marijuana Business Daily has learned. Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment extended until December is aContinue Reading

Marijuana will be sold in Ontario through a chain of government-run stores, all existing medical cannabis dispensaries will be closed, and consumption will be limited to private homes, Ontario’s Liberal government said Friday in announcing the province’s framework governing recreational MJ. The measures effectively shut the door to private businesses in theContinue Reading

A Manitoba First Nation is making a major investment in a Canadian company that operates medical cannabis clinics, adding itself to a growing list of indigenous communities getting involved in the MMJ sector. The Opaskwayak Cree Nation, located 530 kilometers (329 miles) northwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has purchased 3 millionContinue Reading

Denver-based AmeriCann announced that it has secured $10 million in equity financing to help finalize the build-out of a massive Massachusetts medical cannabis cultivation operation. The financing, from Mountain States Capital, will be mostly used on the company’s “flagship project,” a 1 million-square-foot multi-building MMJ cultivation and processing center inContinue Reading

In this article from 2015, Robert Jacob the former dispensary owner at Sparc, straddles the two worlds of politics and pot. The first U.S. mayor in history to be openly involved in the cannabis industry sat down with Cannabis Now in 2015 to discuss the experience of holding political officeContinue Reading

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has established a Marijuana Advisory Commission that will study the best way to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. The commission created Thursday must issue a report to the legislature by January. In May, the Republican governor vetoed a limited recreational marijuana bill passed by the LegislatureContinue Reading

Is it legal to own a firearm as a legally registered medical marijuana patient? The simple answer is no, but how strictly is this law enforced? The post Can Medical Marijuana Patients Legally Own Guns? appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Can Medical Marijuana Patients Legally Own Guns?Continue Reading