marijuana

If everything goes according to plan Corner Brook will soon see a medical marijuana production facility. BeeHighve Inc. announced its plan to become a licensed producer of medical marijuana in a press release Friday. Rita Hall, an aboriginal woman who was born and raised in Corner Brook, is...

An overwhelming majority of West Virginian physicians are "interested" in medical cannabis, according to a survey conducted by the Department of Health and Human Resources. Of 1,455 physicians who took the online survey, 82 percent of them indicated their interest in medical marijuana, which...

Carli Jo Bidlingmaier talks to a group of twentysomethings in a living room in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, weeks before the recent wildfires. She is explaining that consuming marijuana allows a woman to awaken her "yoni", a Sanskrit term for vagina favored by Hollywood bohemians...

Frozen Budz was accused of selling moldy, over-strong muffins and other marijuana edibles The Alaska Marijuana Control Board has given the death penalty to one of Alaska's largest manufacturers of edible marijuana products. On Friday morning, the board voted to revoke the manufacturing...

A year ago, when president-elect Donald Trump announced Senator Jeff Sessions would be his attorney general, advocates for marijuana law reform were suddenly seized with panic. The longtime Alabama senator, they knew, had once joked that he considered the Klan to be OK guys until he found out...

The City Council will get a report from city staffers on Monday, Dec. 18, detailing research about allowing commercial cannabis distribution facilities in La Habra, potentially paving the way for an ordinance to go before the Planning Commission early next year. In October, the council placed...

One of California's first licenses to sell recreational marijuana was awarded to Buddy's Cannabis in San Jose. It currently operates as a marijuana collective but come Jan. 1, anyone 21 and older will be able to stroll in and buy pot. "It's super exciting, honestly it's a milestone at this...

From "cannabis cafes" to "craft cooperatives," regulators have been laying out a vision for what a potential multibillion dollar recreational marijuana industry might look like when retail sales begin next year in Massachusetts. The Cannabis Control Commission reached tentative agreement over...

At the two malls in town you can buy key chains and Christmas ornaments shaped like marijuana leaves. Along a downtown shopping corridor, paintings of cannabis plants grace storefront windows. Even Kmart stocks its shelves with T-shirts and mugs decorated with the signature green leaf and...

Maine lawmakers are preparing for a 2018 session where Medicaid expansion and marijuana legalization are expected to take center stage. The Legislature must figure out how to pay for Medicaid's eventual $54 million expansion. The sale of recreational marijuana is also set to become legal Feb...

State regulators issued temporary licenses to 20 marijuana businesses, which will be able to operate legally beginning Jan. 1. At the top of the list is Jordan Lams, CEO of Moxie, which will refine marijuana plants into high grade cannabis extract in Lynwood. "We focus on trying to bring...

How well did marijuana stocks fare in 2017? It depends. Previous high-flying cannabinoid-focused biotech stocks didn't generate a lot of excitement for investors this year. Neither did most U.S.-based marijuana stocks. But it was a much different story if you looked north of the border. All...

Marijuana enthusiasts are celebrating a year of legal Massachusetts pot this weekend in Worcester, with plans that involve rolling a 100-foot joint. It's part of the inaugural "Harvest Cup" is happening at the DCU Center on Saturday and Sunday, which is both a competition of sorts, seeking...

Southern California police seized 35,000 marijuana plants from a weed "fortress" and shut down an operation they believed was bringing in millions of dollars a month. San Bernardino Police said they detained eight people Wednesday when police and federal agents raided a warehouse that was...

Some surprising new numbers are out about the Silver State's marijuana industry. The Nevada Dispensary Association surveyed it's members and now we're getting a better picture of how big the industry is beyond just looking at sales and tax revenues. State lawmakers from across the U.S. are in...

One year after it became legal for adults to possess and use marijuana in Massachusetts, cannabis aficionados will gather in Worcester this weekend to show off some of the best locally-sourced ganja and edibles, and to try to put a welcoming face on the world of weed. Part competition, part...

Legalized marijuana has, to this point, been something of a West Coast thing. Voters in Washington, Oregon and Colorado were the first to approve legal recreational cannabis, and California is about to become the country's biggest legal marijuana market when recreational sales begin in 2018...

California's legal cannabis market, opening for business on Jan. 1, is expected to quickly grow to be the largest in the nation and worth more than $5 billion a year. County voting on Proposition 64 that led the state here -- to legalizing sales for recreational use -- can offer insight into...

Given Governor-elect Phil Murphy's campaign pledge to legalize marijuana for recreational use in his first 100 days, the State of New Jersey is on the cusp of a major new revenue stream–recreational marijuana. Last May, Democratic State Senator Nicholas Scutari introduced a bill to legalize...

When discussing the fastest-growing industries in the United States, legal marijuana is probably at or near the very top of the list. According to Marijuana Business Daily's newest report, "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017," U.S. weed sales are expected to grow 30% in 2017, 45% the following...