Last week, Oregon kicked off the 2020 legislative session. Because we are in an even-numbered year, this will be a 35-day session. In short sessions, we tend to see fewer pieces of introduced legislation. The prospects for a productive session may also be lower than usual in 2020, given that House and Senate Republicans are threatening…
If you’re looking to deepen your understanding of the cannabis plant, you might start looking at a move to Pueblo, Colorado. On Friday, the town’s Colorado State University campus got the state government’s go-ahead for a cannabis chemistry bachelor’s degree program. It makes sense that such a program would... Read more
Michigan’s licensing of medical and recreational marijuana businesses has been a windfall for Lansing’s budget, but not the legal marijuana job market, according to the latest jobs report released by Leafly, a marijuana industry media and technology company. “Two years ago there were hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries operating in an... Read more
Although Ohio legalized medical use of cannabis four years ago, the state has been slow to grow its program. Myriad regulations, along with delays in awarding licenses, kept the program from becoming fully functional until January 2019, when the state’s first licensed medical cannabis dispensary opened. Although adult-use of... Read more
You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Illinois / Illinois marijuana stores told to let medical patients buy more than recreational customers under new state guidelines February 8, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment Marijuana stores should take concrete steps to prioritize medical patients over recreational customers,... Read more
Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency issued updated rules regarding vaping products Thursday, Feb. 6. The agency is requiring any vaping product that contain ingredients originating outside the regulated market to be tested for potentially deadly vitamin E acetate. All inactive ingredients, required to be Food and Drug Administration-approved for inhalation, must also be listed... Read more
February 6, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment BOSTON — Boston’s first retail pot shop and Massachusetts’ first minority-owned marijuana business was approved Thursday, more than a year after the first shops opened elsewhere in the state. The state’s Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday voted to give final license... Read more
Stymied by the governor last year, New Hampshire lawmakers are trying once again to pass a bill permitting patients or caregivers to grow their own marijuana for medical purposes. The legislation passed in the New Hampshire state senate this week, and will now head to the state House for... Read more
Facing multiple bills that they say would undermine their rights to medical marijuana, hundreds of protesters swarmed Oklahoma’s state capitol on Thursday. The legislation that provoked the demonstration could have myriad effects: one proposal would ban billboards advertising medical cannabis; another would prohibit dispensaries from being built near churches. ... Read more
Joseph Hopkins, with his wife Chelsea, owns and operates The Greener Side, a dispensary in Eugene, OR. As some of the original entrepreneurs to open a dispensary in the state of Oregon, their story of being raided by federal authorities shows how resilient one needs to be in the... Read more
