Yes, Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana stores are open to the state’s more than 147,000 registered patients during the coronavirus pandemic and patients can now use online ordering to accelerate the dispensing process. Pennsylvania health officials have said that food, medicine and banking services are considered essential and will remain open. And... Read more
By the time competing proposals to legalize medical marijuana appear on Mississippi’s November general election ballot, it could already be the law of the land – of the state anyway. Earlier this year, legislators passed a medical marijuana alternative to put on the ballot alongside the citizen-sponsored initiative. Supporters... Read more
Long lines have been forming at Arizona’s medical marijuana dispensaries, but it’s not necessarily from a rush on sales during the coronavirus pandemic. Dispensaries, which remain open, are taking some extra precautions like limiting the number of customers inside at once. At Nature’s Medicines dispensary on McDowell Road, that... Read more
Nearly six years since New York legalized medical marijuana, one of the Big Apple’s five boroughs still didn’t have its own dispensary—until now. It’s simply called “Be,” it’s Staten Island’s first medical cannabis dispensary, and it is finally opening its doors to patients this month. New York Gov. Andrew... Read more
All recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries must close their storefronts per the emergency declaration issued by Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak on Friday. Dispensaries will be required to shut down all public store fronts by midnight Friday despite the surge in purchases. Legal cannabis sales will continue but will be available by delivery... Read more
Regulators in New York, California, and Ohio have determined that cannabis dispensaries are essential businesses, allowing them to remain open during mandatory closures enacted to help contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The decisions to permit marijuana retailers follow similar moves by government officials in other states struggling... Read more
A year after the Colorado legislature opened the door for medical marijuana dispensaries to conduct home deliveries, a Boulder shop is set to become the first in the state to offer the service. The Dandelion medical shop obtained the first license in the state to carry out home deliveries,... Read more
March 19, 2020 by Rob Meagher Leave a Comment PRESS RELEASE Boulder, CO – Last week, Native Roots Cannabis Co. became the first company to receive a newly created marijuana delivery permit from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division. In 2019, lawmakers approved House Bill 19-1234(Reps. Valdez, Singer and Sens.... Read more
Concern over the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic has led regulators in Michigan to temporarily permit cannabis dispensaries to offer curbside pickup services. The move is an effort to support social distancing measures encouraged by health officials as a way to slow the spread of the virus. On Monday, the... Read more
A researcher at the University of California Los Angeles has been awarded a $3.9 million grant to study how cannabis can help with pain relief, the institution announced on Wednesday. The grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health was awarded to Ziva... Read more