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Malta is looking to attract foreign investment in its nascent medical cannabis industry, at this years Medical Cannabiz World Summit, Nov 4-5, 2019

Torrey Holistics was one of the first cannabis dispensaries in California to get a temporary license to sell adult use marijuana this month. Now the store is gearing up for a wave of new business on Monday as that license becomes valid and adult use sales become legal. "On January 1st we're...

There's more to the cannabis industry than just the plants themselves. It's a lesson made crystal clear by Kush Bottles Inc. (KSHB) , a small-cap, Santa Ana, California-based company carving out a name for itself in a market that's just getting started. The company was founded in 2010 to...

The term "medical marijuana dispensary" conjures all the coziness of a hospital gown. Denise and Lyndsey Odachowski want to change that. Their mother-and-daughter pharmacy, which deals exclusively in the newly available drug, pops with splashes of green paint and sunny photographs of the...

After decades of trailblazing cannabis-related retail — often under police scrutiny — Calgary head shops say legal recreational marijuana offers them a hazy future. Despite a perception looming legislative changes might affirm their bong and roach clip business model, those first in on cannabis...

The Carson City Planning Commission approved a special use permit for a marijuana distributor to relocate its business on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2017. The special use permit will allow Paladin to relocate its marijuana distribution business to 3160 N. Deer Run Road, which is zoned general...

David Taylor's business card carries the title "plant whisperer." "I talk to them every day," Taylor said earlier this month, outside the four greenhouses in rural Medical Lake where he operates his marijuana business, the Joint Venture. "I talk sweet to them. They're all females. I try to be...

California's legal marijuana market is finally, fitfully, taking shape. The state on Thursday issued the first batch of business licenses to sell and transport recreational-use pot, just 18 days before legal sales will begin on Jan. 1, 2018. The 20 temporary licenses – some of which were...

A medical marijuana distribution and transportation company proposed for a new district in the city took a big step forward after the Planning Commission voted unanimously to grant it a necessary permit, the second business to receive one in as many weeks. The conditional use permit allows...

Another milestone is set for Colorado's pioneering marijuana industry. The first business that could allow cannabis consumption is expected to open by the end of the year. The developers of The Coffee Joint plan to allow customers to enjoy pot while also drinking a cup of Joe. Denver...

More than three months after Denver officially opened the gates, the first application to allow social marijuana use in a business has landed. The applicants seek to take advantage of 2016's voter-passed Initiative 300, which made Denver the first in the nation to launch a program allowing...

For the second time in as many meetings, Costa Mesa planning commissioners are set to consider plans to open a medical marijuana business in the city. The proposed operation up for review Monday – called CMX Distribution – would occupy 4,722 square feet of existing industrial warehouse space...

The state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs gave an early Christmas present to people who want to get into the lucrative medical marijuana business. The department wasn't supposed to make applications for the five categories of licenses – growers, processers, testers, secure...

A federal judge has rejected a Southern California cannabis company's request to resume growing hemp for "research" purposes in the Delta. Cannabis Science Inc., along with the Winnemucca Shoshoni tribe of Native Americans and a business calling itself "American States University," asked the...

Los Angeles police captain is on paid leave as the department investigates whether he is involved with an alleged marijuana warehouse in Sun Valley. The warehouse came to the LAPD's attention on Oct. 31 after someone called to report a burglary there. Phillip A. Smith, a captain in Rampart...

A medical marijuana extraction facility could be a step closer Monday to opening in Costa Mesa. The Planning Commission will review an application for a conditional use permit to open the facility in a 7,315-square-foot tenant space at 3590 Cadillac Ave.in the northwest area of the city...

In the sea of men descending on Las Vegas for the nation's largest business conference for legal weed, the gender gap in this burgeoning industry was easy to spot. But female cannabis entrepreneurs and industry workers actively sought out each other during the largest MJBizCon yet and vowed to...

As Nevada's budding marijuana industry digs in, the United State's industry as a whole continues to grow at a rapid pace. The cannabis industry is blooming, and so are all of the businesses that support it. The world's largest cannabis industry trade show, the Marijuana Business...

Much like the cannabis industry at large, it's been a swift half-decade of maturation for the nation's largest marijuana trade show. About 400 people attended the initial iteration of the Marijuana Business Conference when it debuted in Denver in 2012. Back then, just 16 states had legal...

With 29 states (plus the District of Columbia) that have legalized marijuana in some form, the U.S. is seeing an explosion of pot-related companies. In 2016, there were between 21,000 and 33,000 cannabis businesses in the U.S. Yet many of these businesses have a hard time just making ends meet...