All signs point to medical marijuana being added to the November ballot in Utah. Roughly 160,000 signatures have been gathered in support of an MMJ ballot initiative, and around 120,000 signatures have been verified by county clerks, Salt Lake City TV station Fox 13 reported. MMJ advocates needed 113,000 signatures toContinue Reading
Michigan’s medical marijuana regulators added three more review meetings in an effort to undo a growing logjam of MMJ license applications. The state’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, which is responsible for licensing medical cannabis businesses, originally scheduled five meetings over the course of the year to review applications. However,Continue Reading
(This story has been updated from an earlier version.) A large network of independently owned pharmacies in Canada is securing medical cannabis supply, becoming the fourth pharmacy chain to launch efforts to enter the fast-growing MMJ market. Pharmasave, which operates a network of 650 stores across Canada, signed a letterContinue Reading
To reduce the California cannabis industry into a day, to package it and present it to a novice audience, defies the laws of gravity. Behemoth forces of capital and regulatory government must be reconciled with decades-old cannabis movements resistant to corporate influence, and then filtered through the environmental and politicalContinue Reading
A woman who owns a company that claims to be California’s largest landlord of marijuana businesses sued the city of San Bernardino to overturn a cannabis regulation ordinance that could bar her from the industry. Stephanie Smith, owner of a business called Bubba Likes Tortillas, claims in the lawsuit that the city’sContinue Reading
A growing number of companies that service the wine industry are now pursuing opportunities in the cannabis sector, hoping to generate new revenue streams. For marijuana businesses, that means a host of potential new ancillary companies to choose from, as well as added legitimacy from an industry that once appearedContinue Reading
