Month: October 2019 (Page 5)

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New England Treatment Access (NETA), a Massachusetts medical and recreational marijuana company, settled a lawsuit with Boise Cascade, an Idaho lumber business, over a logo trademark dispute. A spokesman for NETA, which owns two cannabis retail stores, said in a statement that the dispute with Boise Cascade “has been resolved amicably,” Masslive.comContinue Reading

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Michigan regulators will start taking recreational marijuana business applications on Nov. 1, but sales aren’t expected to begin until March or April at the earliest. There are a number of factors delaying the launch, according to the Detroit Free Press, including: The state is concerned about a medical cannabis shortageContinue Reading

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Amid the quick expansion of the legal cannabis market, many cannabis growers and business owners are pushing to secure intellectual property rights for the strains and products they’ve created. Cannabis patents currently exist in a still-clouded regulatory atmosphere thanks to federal prohibition, but it’s still possible to receive one —Continue Reading

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Harborside, the pioneering Oakland, California-centered cannabis mega-dispensary, owes the U.S. Internal Revenue Service $11 million in back taxes, a U.S. tax court judge ruled last week. But in a very Harborside judo move, the publicly-traded cannabis company characterized the bill as a huge win — a bold stroke which isn’tContinue Reading

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On Thursday, Oct. 24, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the self-professed democratic socialist and longtime independent senator from Vermont, released his ambitious cannabis legalization plan. The plan includes the now-standard buffet of progressive cannabis policy ideas: removing the plant from the Controlled Substances Act, creating a robust equity program toContinue Reading