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The doors at the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs will open at 8 a.m. Friday to begin accepting applications and fees from people who want to get a license for the lucrative medical marijuana business. The Department also will accept license applications online, beginning...

Michigan residents who want to get into the medical marijuana business had their last shot at a training session Wednesday. State employees took people step by step through the application process. They also explained the monitoring system for tracking marijuana from seed-to-sale. David Harns...

The city of Ann Arbor is taking steps to ensure its process for licensing medical marijuana facilities complies with the state's new Medical Marihuana Licensing Facilities Act. The state law, which took effect in December 2016, outlines different types of commercial medical marijuana...

The Medical Marihuana Licensing Board will discuss how much marijuana a patient should be able to purchase per day at its upcoming meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 12:30 p.m. The Licensing Board was formed under a 2016 law, and will put forth a licensure process for medical marijuana...

SACRAMENTO – The Bureau of Cannabis Control (Bureau) will host a public licensing workshop in Sacramento on October 17. The workshop will focus on what licensing information is needed and what resources are available for people planning to apply for state commercial cannabis licenses. The...

The Bureau of Cannabis Control (Bureau) will host a public licensing workshop in Los Angeles on October 12. The workshop will focus on what licensing information is needed and what resources are available for people planning to apply for state commercial cannabis licenses. The Bureau will be...

The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program on Friday released 372 pages of information on the 180 entities applying for grower licenses, including locations of where they want to put their pot farms. At least 24 operations are proposed for the Miami Valley, including six in Dayton, three in...

A marijuana dispensary has decided to close its doors after business hours on Sunday. The Reef, a City of Detroit approved dispensary, is closing in order to be in total compliance with the state by cooperating with the Executive Marijuana Board. The five-member marijuana licensing board...

House Bill 230, introduced in the Wyoming State Legislature in January and passed into law without Governor Matt Mead's signature earlier this year, could offer Wyoming the chance to grow industrial hemp for research purposes, joining 20 others states in the development of what was once a...

Medical marijuana providers, patients and labs that test products told a legislative committee Friday they want regulations and licensing on their industry to show it is legitimate. "This is transparency and this is bringing the program out from the shadows," said Kate Cholewa, who represents...

Kingston, Jamaica – Director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Delano Seiveright, on Saturday said that the cannabis licensing process, while challenging, is moving faster than what obtains in jurisdictions across the United States and Canada. Seiveright, who is also a senior advisor...

Since passage of the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act in California ("MCRSA"), our California marijuana business attorneys have been getting calls nearly non-stop regarding what folks can do now to have a medical marijuana business later in the Golden State. The passage of Proposition...

I am a relatively new import to Washington state and have the right motivation to consider the opportunity of a commcercial grow. Does anyone have any advice from going through the process themselves (licensing, tax filing requirements, anything that might help...). Thanks in advance.

Gov. Jerry Brown provided a path to licensure for California's smaller medical cannabis gardeners that want to sell their crop into the regulated commercial market. The governor signed the so-called "cottage" licensing bill, A.B. 2516, on September 29, creating a Type 1C, or "specialty...

Gov. Jerry Brown provided a path to licensure for California's smaller medical cannabis gardeners that want to sell their crop into the regulated commercial market. The governor signed the so-called "cottage" licensing bill, A.B. 2516, on September 29, creating a Type 1C, or "specialty...

Lansing - With the Legislature only in session for three weeks after its summer break, there weren't a whole lot of bills for Gov. Rick Snyder to sign. But he did sign long-stalled bills to regulate and tax the medical marijuana industry. The bills will allow communities to decide whether and...

Lansing - With the Legislature only in session for three weeks after its summer break, there weren't a whole lot of bills for Gov. Rick Snyder to sign. But he did sign long-stalled bills to regulate and tax the medical marijuana industry. The bills will allow communities to decide whether and...

Industry and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda says the regulations to govern the production of medicinal marijuana in Jamaica should be ready today. This means the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) set up by the previous administration is one step closer to having formal rules for the issuing...

Many advocates for cannabis reform laws in California believe that 2016 is the year that recreational cannabis will become legal in the state. As many as 60 state initiatives have been authorized to move forward and circulate for signatures, and 20 ballot measures have been filed. Since...