Colorado’s Department of Revenue reports that marijuana retailers sold nearly $19 million in recreational weed in March, up from $14 million in February. The first three months of...
Because marijuana is illegal under federal law, financial institutions are reluctant to serve state-licensed marijuana businesses. These businesses currently operate almost entirely on a cash-only basis, which...
As the pot businesses blossom, a robust supply chain is needed to help grow, package and market legal marijuana. Where there’s weed, there’s also a growing need for everything...
Uruguay has published regulations for a new, legal marijuana market, a measure approved by lawmakers there in December. The law and the new regulations make Uruguay the...
By a vote of 48-18, senators approved the legislation that would make Minnesota the first state to prohibit patients from smoking marijuana to ease their symptoms. Twenty-one...
The Colorado legislature neared agreement Monday on a series of marijuana spending and regulation plans, all modest proposals compared with last year’s splashy set of pot bills...
Uruguay will formally unveil the regulations for its legal marijuana commerce next week, although the broad outlines are already known. The stuff will be genetically tracked from seed to sale and...
Medical marijuana patients sued San Diego, claiming its restrictions on the number of pot shops in the city exacerbate pollution by increasing the number of people who...
Parents 4 Pot Oregon has come together and shown how fast a group can get results with a dedicated team of volunteers. Their only online presence is...
CT’s law approving the sale of marijuana for medical purposes has been on the books for two years, but the drug is still not available. Among the challenges...
A Colorado plan to set up the world’s first financial system for marijuana survived less than 24 hours before state lawmakers changed course and shelved the idea. The...
A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian (2014, The New Press, 264 pp., $14.04 PB Amazon) After Legalization: Understanding the Future...
A sweeping number of Oregon cities have imposed a moratorium on medical marijuana. It is clear to me that these moratoriums have been set out of fear...
Voters in California adopted the country’s first medical cannabis law in 1996, but the state has lagged behind in implementing it. The Medical Marijuana Program Act (SB...
llinois patients can have guns, but New Hampshire patients can’t grow their own medicine. And California counties stay busy as the legislature ponders actually regulating medical marijuana...
In case you missed it, Ballot Measure 2, which would regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol in Alaska, has been moved off the primary election ballot and will now appear...
Yesterday, the Amsterdam District Court sided with Mayor Eberhard van der Laan to ban marijuana cafes in its famous Red Light district. The plan calls for closing 26...
Alaska voters will decide this November on a proposed initiative to regulate the production and retail sale of cannabis to adults. Although the measure was initially scheduled...
Bills setting restrictions on marijuana edibles in Colorado have cleared the state House unanimously. The bills approved Monday would set possession limits for concentrated forms of marijuana such...
Medical marijuana dispensaries in California would have to get state Public Health Department licenses, and doctors who recommend pot would face new standards for examining patients under...
