dispensaries

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of Hawaii's first medical marijuana dispensaries being allowed to open, but the industry has still not been able to get off the ground. Of the eight dispensary licensees, all but two have received state approval to begin growing cannabis, and at least...

Research from UBC shows marijuana patients are giving storefront dispensaries high marks for quality, safety and availability but not for cost. The study is the first of its kind, looking at access from dispensaries in Canada. "We know that about 80 per cent of patients use dispensaries...

new study co-written by a UC Irvine business professor has found no correlation between the closure of marijuana dispensaries and reduced crime rates near them. Rather, it discovered the opposite. The paper, written by UCI's Mireille Jacobson and USC professor Tom Y. Chang, studied the...

Just 11 days into selling recreational marijuana, the Las Vegas ReLeaf dispensary, located steps from the Strip, had already run out of edibles. "Right now, I have about 30 people in my lobby that want this edible or that edible, and we have to tell them we're sorry," CEO Al Fasano said...

Florida lawmakers have given local governments the responsibility of deciding whether or not to add medical marijuana dispensaries. The Town of Orange Park will hold a public meeting Thursday at the Town Council to gauge the residents' perspective. Last year, Orange Park became one of several...

Medical-cannabis patients who use illegal cannabis dispensaries instead of turning to other legal and black-market sources do so because they feel safe at these shops and like that they have reliable supplies of the specific strains they want, according to new research from the University of...

Medicinal marijuana dispensaries will be banned from Collier County until at least the end of the year. Commissioners voted 4-1 on Tuesday to keep the dispensaries from opening in Collier until Dec. 31 to give the county a chance to lobby state lawmakers for more control over the number of...

After a new state law put limit on how local governments can regulate medical cannabis dispensaries, Coral Gables has taken a step toward banning the businesses in the city. The City Commission on Tuesday gave initial approval to a citywide ban on shops that sell medical marijuana. It...

Medicinal marijuana dispensaries will be banned from Collier County until at least the end of the year. Commissioners voted, 4-1, Tuesday afternoon to keep the dispensaries from opening here until the county has a chance to lobby state lawmakers for more control over the number of...

With California’s recent passage of the Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA“), we finally know California will be combining its regulatory oversight of medical and adult use cannabis. We also know potential licensees no longer need to prove prior compliance with...

When legislators estimated that as much as $100 million in state tax revenue could be generated in the first two years of Nevada's recreational marijuana industry, they couldn't have seen this coming. Through the first four days of legalization, starting July 1, the new industry made $3...

Nevada dispensaries are selling marijuana at such a fast rate since opening their doors July 1, the state is reporting a weed shortage that could threaten jobs in the burgeoning industry. The Nevada Department of Taxation announced Friday that less than a week into the first legal sales in...

With recreational marijuana quickly leaving the shelves of Nevada dispensaries, Gov. Brian Sandoval on Friday signed emergency regulations that could keep sales going strong beyond the first week. Some dispensaries have told the state that a legal fight over distribution rights could put them...

The four Reno dispensaries licensed to sell recreational marijuana each raked in "hundreds of thousands of dollars" in the past four days from the state's first legal recreational marijuana sales, according to Will Adler, executive director of the Sierra Cannabis Coalition. The Nevada...

City commissioners voted unanimously Monday to ban marijuana dispensaries within the city limits of Sarasota. The board also voted unanimously to give the city's staff a 60-day period to draft an ordinance that will eventually allow them. Last fall, more than 70 percent of Florida voters...

Recreational marijuana sales have exceeded the expectations of Las Vegas area store owners, who have seen long lines outside their dispensaries since Saturday, when Nevada became the fifth state with shops selling pot to the public. That move jumpstarted a market projected to be fueled by the...

Recreational marijuana sales have exceeded the expectations of Las Vegas area store owners, who have seen long lines outside their dispensaries since Saturday, when Nevada became the fifth state with shops selling pot to the public. That move jumpstarted a market projected to be fueled by the...

Following new state legislation pertaining to medical marijuana, Winter Garden has drafted an ordinance that seeks to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from its boundaries. The new state bill, which was signed by Governor Rick Scott June 23, establishes restrictions that provide local...

Hundreds of marijuana enthusiasts waited outside a number of dispensaries that opened at midnight on Saturday to mark the beginning of legal recreational marijuana sales in Nevada. There were between 250 and 300 people outside Oasis Medical Cannabis when the doors opened at the stroke of...

More medical marijuana dispensaries are coming to Pinellas County. Pinellas County Commissioners recently decided not to extend a medical marijuana moratorium. Based on the county's population and central location, the state could allow as many as 136 dispensaries to open in Pinellas County...