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Portland could be opening its arms to marijuana couriers. The City Council on Wednesday added a license for delivery-only cannabis businesses to a marijuana regulation plan up for a vote next week. Businesses operating as "marijuana retail couriers" would not be allowed to sell from...

Washington - There's a whole lot of cash sitting in marijuana shops in Washington state, Colorado and elsewhere, with less than 3 percent of the nation's banks and credit unions willing to do business with them. And with another eight states voting last month to expand access to legal...

The state has approved a second recreational marijuana business in North Kitsap's Twelve Trees Business Park. Marijuana producer and processor Quality Green Trees received its license Monday from the Liquor and Cannabis Board. It joins Sound Extracts in the business park off Highway 3, north...

Despite the many innovative services in the digital age, conventional banking remains important to newly-established businesses; banking cannot yet be replaced by online financial services such as crowdfunding or PayPal, say Professor Jan Riepe and Markus Merz from the University of Tübingen in...

State Treasurer John Chiang has formed a working group focused on finding ways to provide banking services for the cannabis industry, which is now forced by federal law to operate largely in cash. California has about a year to come up with a plan. That's when the state's first recreational...

Marijuana businesses will have to continue to wait before setting up shop in Pismo Beach. The Pismo Beach City Council approved an urgency ordinance at its meeting Nov. 15 to ban manufacturing, processing, laboratory testing, labeling, storing and wholesale and retail distribution of...

While more than a half the U.S. population now lives in states that have legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational use, the drug remains banned at the federal level. "Responsible cannabis businesses are contributing to the economy and to their communities, and they're here to...

Salem, Ore. - Some 30 counties and cities in Oregon approved some type of marijuana businesses in last week's election, and officials in those communities now must establish rules for every step in the production and supply chain. When voters legalized recreational marijuana statewide two...

The recent election yielded massive marijuana reform across the country as four states voted to legalize recreational marijuana and four legalized medical marijuana. Alongside the concurrent election of Mr. Trump, this means a lot of change for marijuana reform movements and the industry, almost...

Oakland, Calif. - The city of Oakland has taken the first step toward opening its own public bank, a step that could allow cannabis businesses to access the same kinds of banking tools available to other small businesses. As it stands right now the cannabis industry has very little access to...

Medical marijuana was legalized in Florida after Amendment 2 passed during last week's election, but there are still questions as to what this means for businesses that have employees who want to use it at work. Since marijuana is still illegal under federal law, the state isn't required to...

Medical marijuana was legalized in Florida after Amendment 2 passed during last week's election, but there are still questions as to what this means for businesses that have employees who want to use it at work. Since marijuana is still illegal under federal law, the state isn't required to...

South Portland - The City Council will consider passing a six-month moratorium on licensing marijuana businesses so city officials would have time to weigh legal questions triggered by last week's passage of a statewide recreational marijuana initiative. The council was scheduled to discuss a...

Pittsburgh City Council could decide within a couple of weeks where medical marijuana dispensaries, growers and processors can do business. As early as today, council members may discuss legislation that would direct dispensaries in the city to commercial zones. General or urban industrial...

In the 24-hour period following Tuesday's election, the town of Palisade received about 10 phone calls and multiple inquiries from people who want to open up marijuana businesses or grow it on their land. At this rate there likely will be more interest than opportunity for marijuana businesses...

Pueblo, Colo. — A southern Colorado community has voted to keep a burgeoning marijuana industry in a vote seen as an indication of whether communities with pot shops consider them good neighbors. Voters in the city and county of Pueblo rejected measures to close some 100 recreational...

The nine cannabis-related measures on ballots across the nation have drawn immense attention, most notably in the form of tens of millions of dollars in political contributions. Campaign finance data shows that only 20 businesses and individuals account for a whopping $20.8 million in donations...

The retail marijuana market is coming above ground. Four states — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington — regulate and tax commercial cannabis production and retail sales. In two of these states, Colorado and Washington, marijuana sales have yielded approximately $350 million in new tax...

A local initiative that would save city pot shops from extinction has pretty much qualified for the March ballot. The United Cannabis Business Alliance's (UCBA) Los Angeles Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act has enough endorsements from registered voters to qualify it for the ballot, the...

Congress continues to resist decriminalizing marijuana even as a popular crusade to legalize its use state by state may soon mean almost a quarter of Americans can smoke up at will, not including the many more who can use the drug medicinally. This has resulted in a patchwork of state laws...