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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...

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...

With the looming introduction of a bill by Labor for Medical Cannabis, the patient community is skeptical, and bordering on preemptively hostile due to the lack of consultation, and the comments from Jacinda Ardern about pharmaceutical grade Cannabis Based Products. Considering the lack of...

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...

One of the two medical marijuana dispensaries located in the county is already open and the second expects to do so in the coming weeks as medical marijuana begins its slow rollout throughout the state. PharmKent LLC, located at 330 E. Pulaski Highway in Elkton, has been awarded a preliminary...

The city of Adrian is moving forward to allow and regulate medical marijuana facilities within the community. At a special meeting Wednesday, the Adrian City Commission by a 5-1 vote approved a regulatory ordinance's language that would permit commercial medical marijuana facilities...

Medical marijuana dispensaries and other portions of the medicinal cannabis supply chain could be legal in Fresno as the result of a unanimous vote Thursday by the City Council. The 7-0 vote begins the process of rewriting the city's complete ban on commercial marijuana operations that was...

A medical marijuana dispensary is coming to a long-dormant space on Fairmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Rich Greenberg, of Greenhill Capital, which owns the building, said Budding Rose LLC signed the lease for the roughly 1,900-square-foot space about six months ago. He said work is ongoing...

On a frigid, snowy December morning nearly 10 years after medical marijuana became legal in Michigan, the fully regulated business officially started. The day started with a whimper, rather than the bang state regulators had prepared for. Two hours after the doors opened at the Department of...

Maryland's marijuana regulators on Thursday approved 12 new dispensaries to operate in the state's fledgling legal medical marijuana industry, bringing the total number of fully approved legal storefronts to 22. At least 60 more dispensaries that received preliminary licenses are still...

The state on Friday started accepting applications for the state's new, regulated medical marijuana facilities. An estimate from the House Fiscal Agency pegs the industry as growing to more than $800 million. Signs directed people to the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation if they wanted...

The US Drug Enforcement Administration has long held that the non-psychoactive component of marijuana, cannabidiol, is a schedule I drug. That is, a drug that has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. But according to a preliminary report embraced by the World Health...

After careful review of the MMMP and the subsequent changes coming on December 15th (tomorrow), is anyone else concerned about the availability to obtain medical cannabis legally? I have been told that many dispensaries will be shutting down until the end of Q1 2018. Any insight would be...

The World Health Organization has declared that CBD - the relaxant property of cannabis used in medical marijuana - should not be a scheduled drug. As legalization of cannabis has spread rapidly across the United States and around the world, health officials have cautioned that we do not have...

TheraCann USA Benchmark has abandoned plans to build a $20 million medical marijuana plant in Kingsley. Richard Goodman, president of TheraCann USA, confirmed the decision on Wednesday, Dec. 13. He cited a variety of reasons for the decision, most notably the time it was taking to finalize...

Medical marijuana regulators approved 12 new dispensaries to open in the state on Thursday, more than doubling the number of businesses allowed to sell the drug. But they cautioned the supply is still low, and it may be hard to buy marijuana until at least March. "Product is limited,"...

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...

A company bumped out of consideration for one of Ohio's 12 large medical marijuana cultivator licenses in favor of lower-scoring minority-owned companies filed suit against the state Wednesday. PharmaCann Ohio, LLC wants the court to order the Ohio Department of Commerce to award licenses to...

Congress just gave the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which bars the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute people buying or selling medical marijuana in states that have legalized it, a temporary reprieve until Dec. 22. However, as Rep. Earl Blumenauer, (D-Ore.)...

Portage's only medical marijuana dispensary will be allowed to stay in business and the city intends to pursue an ordinance on local control of medical marijuana facilities. Both actions came at a special meeting of the Portage City Council Tuesday night when the council voted 5-2 on an...