dispensaries

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to allow banks to provide financial services to legal recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries, according to The Denver Post. Marijuana is still listed as a Schedule 1 substance by the federal government, so marijuana businesses in...

Fullerton - Fullerton leaders are considering a November ballot measure that could make the city one of the county's first to legalize the cultivation of medical marijuana. The City Council on Tuesday is looking at joining Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa with ballot measures permitting medical...

Say what you will about Detroit's business press, but you seldom have to ask questions about its political positioning: It's snugly ensconced in the boardroom. You can count on Detroit's business reporters to see things from the point of view of the executive, right down to fireside chats with...

Say what you will about Detroit's business press, but you seldom have to ask questions about its political positioning: It's snugly ensconced in the boardroom. You can count on Detroit's business reporters to see things from the point of view of the executive, right down to fireside chats with...

Cash is one of the U.S. marijuana industry's most nagging problems. Although a growing industry - to date, marijuana is now legal for medicinal use in 25 states and Washington, D.C., and legal for recreational use in four plus D.C. - traditional banking relationships with these Schedule 1...

Massachusetts regulators are pledging to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries after several shops placed low-income patients on waiting lists for discounted products – creating delays that run afoul of state law. A Globe review found that the delays were often months long, effectively...

Massachusetts regulators are pledging to crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries after several shops placed low-income patients on waiting lists for discounted products – creating delays that run afoul of state law. A Globe review found that the delays were often months long, effectively...

A day after Toronto Police swept through the city’s marijuana retailers, arresting around 90 people and seizing hundreds of kilograms of drugs, Chief Mark Saunders faced pointed questions from a crowd of protesters over the police’s decision to crack down on the trade. At a tense press...

Nogales, AZ Tucson News Now - The city of Nogales is looking into adopting a new set of regulations regarding marijuana dispensaries. If they are approved, they will determine where and when marijuana selling businesses can operate. Nogales city manager Carlos Rivera said the council will vote...

Nogales, AZ Tucson News Now - The city of Nogales is looking into adopting a new set of regulations regarding marijuana dispensaries. If they are approved, they will determine where and when marijuana selling businesses can operate. Nogales city manager Carlos Rivera said the council will vote...

BOSTON - The number of people treating their chronic pain, cancer symptoms or other medical conditions with marijuana has nearly quadrupled in a year, but a scarcity of licensed dispensaries and supply shortages are keeping many from getting their medicine, advocates say. At least 24,196...

Boston - The number of people treating their chronic pain, cancer symptoms or other medical conditions with marijuana has nearly quadrupled in a year, but a scarcity of licensed dispensaries and supply shortages are keeping many from getting their medicine, advocates say. At least 24,196...

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says storefront shops selling marijuana will continue to blur the lines of the law around pot until the federal government clarifies the rules around the use of recreational weed. The federal government plans to unveil new legislation next spring that would...

A proposed medical cannabis dispensary program received unanimous support from the Marin County Board of Supervisors on May 3, clearing the way for prospective business owners to start submitting applications by July. In a meeting that lasted about 90 minutes, the Supervisors approved a program...

I remember the first time I set foot inside a recreational marijuana dispensary. It was May 2014, and the pot shop was a highly awarded location, the Clinic Colorado. Smoking pot was nothing new to me, but buying weed legally certainly was. And the options! The options gave me a stoner hard-on...

Toronto lawmakers watching medical marijuana shops pop up "like crocuses in spring" are hoping for signals from Ottawa on how to deal with the onslaught. "We need a sign from the federal government – are they going to change the rules around medical marijuana? Should we as council be trying to...

As the push to legalize recreation marijuana continues to grow, so does the number of medical marijuana dispensaries. According to the Phoneix Business Journal, the Arizona Department of Health Services is expected to award somewhere around 30 new licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries...

Arizona currently has 99 medical marijuana dispensaries, but Arizona health officials are looking to increase that number to support the 90,000 medical marijuana card holders. Flagstaff is home to 3 of these dispensaries. NAZ Today talked with Mangers from several of these dispensaries. Chris...

Two-thirds of Vancouver residents think that marijuana dispensaries should be allowed to operate while less than a quarter said they should not, according to a poll from Forum Research released Tuesday, days before the city is set to shut down dozens of illegal dispensaries on Friday, May 1...

According to The Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, there are at least 350 storefronts in Canada, with dozens opening in Toronto. People who oppose these dispensaries want them shut down. Medical Marijuana advocates are saying the answer to this issue is not to shut...