Day: February 18, 2021

A New Jersey appellate court lifted a 2019 order preventing the state from issuing an additional 24 medical cannabis licenses. The decision could allow for expansion of the medical marijuana industry in the state, perhaps before the launch, potentially later this year, of an adult-use market. Industry officials say NewContinue Reading

The Cannabis Regulators Association, a recently formed but potentially influential marijuana industry group, welcomed an overseer of the country’s biggest MJ market into its fold while pushing Congress on six key reform demands. California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control on Thursday became the newest member of the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA),Continue Reading

A subsidiary of California-based cannabis retailer Harborside must pay nearly $4.2 million in back taxes and penalties after losing a case in U.S. Tax Court. The Tax Court determined in a decision issued Wednesday that San Jose Wellness, the Harborside subsidiary, can’t claim tax deductions for depreciation or charitable contributionsContinue Reading

Working with GB Sciences, the Las Vegas-based R&D arm of the Canadian company GBS Global Biopharma, Michigan State University (MSU) professor Norbert Kaminski is using proprietary cannabinoid-containing complex mixtures (CCCM) in an attempt to treat Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS) and associated conditions such as macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and acuteContinue Reading

The development and extensive marketing of cosmetics containing cannabinoids—primarily CBD—has occurred in the absence of solid scientific evidence of their efficacy. Can cannabinoids even be absorbed into skin and, if so, can they have beneficial health effects? A recently published study suggests they can. Researchers in Poland have demonstrated theContinue Reading

The increasing value of both recreational and medicinal cannabis around the world is driving a need to purify large quantities of full-spectrum and individual cannabinoids for use in vapes, beverages, and capsules. BioHarvest—a plant-cell growth company—has announced that it can now grow cannabis cells and trichomes in liquid media, aContinue Reading

Efforts to thwart voter-approved marijuana legalization in Mississippi, Montana and South Dakota are evidence of a “playbook” that reflects new legal strategies and greater willingness among local government officials to nullify election results, experts say. Those efforts – led by anti-marijuana politicians and other opponents – threaten to stop orContinue Reading