dispensaries

It will be at least a year before Boca Raton reconsiders allowing medical marijuana dispensaries. The city council banned the shops from opening within city limits Tuesday. The council was concerned the city is not able to regulate how many dispensaries can exist, based on current state...

A day after finalizing a moratorium on medical marijuana-related businesses in Streetsboro, the city's Planning Commission started the process of opening the door to such enterprises in the city. The commission has forwarded to council changes to the city's zoning code that would permit...

Local religious and community leaders joining forces in Detroit to protest two medical marijuana proposals slated for the November ballot that they say will undo city rules that keep dispensaries away from places like churches and parks. On November 7, Detroiters will decide on two proposals...

In a drastic change from previously proposed commercial marijuana policy, three of five San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted in a straw poll to ban medical and recreational dispensaries and prohibit manufacturing of edible goods in unincorporated areas of the county...

Officials are expecting a rush Dec. 15 when Michigan begins offering applications to people who want to start a medical marijuana business and be part of what is expected to be a $700-million-a-year industry in the state. "We may have 50. We may have 1,500. We may have 5,000," Shelly...

UBC researchers are cautioning policy makers not to alter a cannabis distribution system that–while not legal yet–works well. Associate professor Zach Walsh, who teaches psychology at UBC's Okanagan campus, and PhD candidate Rielle Capler, say store-front dispensaries–often under fire by law...

Ever since the approval of Proposition 215–the Compassionate Use Act, which permits the use of medical cannabis in California–activists, advocates and users have collectively fantasized about a day when procuring herbal refreshments was as easy as picking up produce from the market or allergy...

Effective immediately medical marijuana dispensaries can set up shop within the town limits provided they comply with restrictions imposed by Town Council, which in a split vote approved an ordinance allowing the establishments. The council voting 3-2 Oct. 3 enacted an ordinance allowing the...

The state of California will begin issuing temporary licenses for "cannabis commercial activity" on Jan. 1, 2018, with permanent licensing to follow within 120 days. This highly anticipated event is attracting private real estate investors from across the U.S. who want to take advantage of the...

The city has taken the first step toward establishing guidelines for medical marijuana dispensaries that might be looking to open in New Port Richey. Medical marijuana dispensaries will not be allowed in New Port Richey's downtown zoning district, but they could pop up in any commercial and...

Although the city has been slow to embrace the idea of allowing marijuana businesses compared with some of its neighbors, such as Berkeley and Richmond, it is now making formal plans to join them within the next year. Part of the motivation to move ahead came with the passage of state Prop...

Lawmakers in Lansing say they want a seamless transition as marijuana dispensaries start to get licensed. Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Wednesday. A few Republicans have voiced support of the bills. The legislation would let dispensaries keep their doors open while...

After previously planning to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, Coral Gables leaders are changing their stance and going back to the drawing board to decide how to regulate the businesses. Commissioners decided not to take a final vote on the ban at Tuesday's meeting. Instead, in response to...

Medical marijuana dispensaries would be allowed to stay open while the state decides who will get a license for the lucrative cannabis business, under a pair of bills introduced this week in the state Legislature. Sen. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, will...

A group of Michigan lawmakers are pushing for existing medical marijuana dispensaries to be able to remain open while they are applying for licenses, contrary to guidance previously issued by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Under a law passed in 2016, the department and...

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado Springs are allowed to remain open two hours longer, after a vote Tuesday by the City Council. Previously, the city's 130 dispensaries had one of the earliest closing times--7 p.m.--in the state. But dispensaries now may close no later than 9...

City Council President Clint Olivier mounted the charge to put off a decision on imposing a ban on recreational marijuana dispensaries, brushing off one accusation he was the king of promoting drug use in Fresno. "If I am going to be the king of anything, it's of personal responsibility and...

Cash and cannabis have long gone hand in hand. The federal government, with its insistence that marijuana is a schedule one controlled substance, makes federally insured banks and credit cards nervous about dealing with cannabis companies. But, Hawaii is looking to change that. By October 1...

Closing time at your favorite dispensary in town probably consists of a common industry routine: Complete the bud audit, get the drawers in order and wipe the glass clean of eager fingerprints. That and always expect some last-minute patients. In Colorado Springs, medical marijuana centers are...

Nine years after Michigan voters approved medical marijuana, government officials and patients don't know which pot shops will be open or closed in coming months because the laws are so confusing. How confusing? On the same day last week when the state announced that existing medical...