Ricky Williams smoked marijuana a few times in high school, and a couple of times when he played football for the University of Texas. But the first time he noticed the drug helped him relax was during his senior year of college. “I had a really bad breakup with... Read more
Early in Dr. Sue Sisley’s medical career, military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder told her that smoking marijuana prevented nightmares and helped them sleep. Sisley, a primary care physician and psychiatrist in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has treated vets for two decades, said she was initially skeptical of her patients’... Read more
Boulder will soon be home to two dispensaries legally delivering medical marijuana. Helping Hands Cannabis on Pearl Street recently procured its license for delivery and expects to begin service to medical patients in mid-May, according to co-owner Johnny Kurish. Kurish decided to offer delivery as a way to safely... Read more
No federal help is on the way for medical marijuana businesses, so the fledgling industry in Oklahoma is finding its own way through the coronavirus pandemic and economic crisis. “We’ve had to look at taking cost-cutting measures and increasing our solvency on our own,” said Corbin Wyatt, CEO of... Read more
The state Supreme Court said that a municipality can enforce zoning laws for medical-marijuana growers. The court reversed a Kent County judge’s ruling, upheld by the state Court of Appeals, that Michigan’s medical marijuana law pre-empted local laws. It was a legal victory for local control when it comes... Read more
More than a dozen states were considering marijuana reform. Now it’s down to a handful. At the start of 2020, more than a dozen states seemed very likely to legalize marijuana for recreational or medical purposes by the end of the year. Now that a coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed... Read more
Virginia Senate bill 976 expands Commonwealth’s cannabis program allowing for up to five additional cannabis dispensing facilities per health service area and removes 5% Cap on the Concentration of THC Permitted to be Contained in Cannabis Oil Jushi’s subsidiary is one of only five applicants to have received conditional... Read more
Since Florida confirmed its first COVID-19 cases early last month, people are getting more things delivered, from groceries to food, to mixed cocktails to go. And more and more Floridians are having medical marijuana delivered straight to their homes “In light of everything that’s been happening, we’ve seen at... Read more
The Lebanese parliament on Tuesday passed legislation to legalize cannabis cultivation for medical and industrial purposes, a move that was recommended by economic advisers even before the coronavirus pandemic dealt a devastating blow to the Mediterranean nation’s struggling economy. Under the new law, the cultivation of cannabis by farmers... Read more
Much like other larger North American cannabis firms whose growth far outpaced that of the market they served, Canopy Growth (CGC) is shedding operations to drastically cut costs and save cash. Last month, that meant shuttering 3 million square feet of greenhouses and laying off 500 employees. Now, the world’s largest cannabis company... Read more
