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Legalization of weed in California is leading to an increase in veterinarians seeking expertise about whether marijuana can safely treat pet conditions and illnesses. Veterinary practice regulators say to steer clear, but some in the industry want state lawmakers to step in. The state’s...

Cannabis outsiders think owning a dispensary is like having a cash register, but cannabis insiders know how it really works. The tight margins and onerous restrictions challenge even the best owner to make decent profits. Brendan Hill, the drummer for the iconic band Blues Traveler, found this...

A ballot proposal to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Michigan is gaining steam as the group raises more money and boasts it has gathered half of the signatures needed to put the issue before voters in 2018. A national marijuana advocacy group that helped legalize marijuana in other...

A leader of California's marijuana industry warned Wednesday that the state's cannabis growers produce eight times the pot that is consumed in the state so some will face "painful" pressure to reduce crops under new state regulations that will ban exports after Jan. 1. Some marijuana growers...

Virginia's State Crime Commission is currently studying decriminalizing simple possession of marijuana. Now, the commission is asking for feedback for anyone interested. Staff on the commission is meeting with stakeholders and people interested in the topic, but say they won't be able to talk...

With recreational marijuana sales set to become legal in California next year and most banks unwilling to open accounts for cannabis companies, pot entrepreneurs are desperate to figure out what to do with their piles of cash. Now, some want the state or cities to get involved. Over the last...

With the goal of supporting economic development in the San Luis Valley (SLV), Adams State University launched its Industrial Hemp Initiative July 25. The Adams State University Industrial Hemp Initiative aims to create an SLV Viable Hemp Seed Program and to develop a large-scale, hemp-based...

Typically, putting the name of a state and the phrase "state of emergency" in the same sentence means residents there are facing some serious trouble. Like "natural disaster" type of trouble. Leave it to Nevada to put a new twist on things. State officials there declared an emergency this...

Regulators of the state's budding medical marijuana industry have received approval to spend an additional $6 million over the next two years on projects including a seed-to-sale tracking system. The funds for the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program were approved Monday, adding to the...

Under the new recreational marijuana law, which is scheduled to go into effect in February, the majority of Maine businesses would not be able to test job applicants for marijuana use or fire an employee for a marijuana-positive drug test unless they could also prove use or impairment on the...

Though I very much want states (and our clients) to follow the federal government's "robust regulation" directives in the 2013 Cole Memo, I can't help but bemoan when "robust" state cannabis regulations take the fun and creativity out of cannabis business operations. Over the years, clients...

Ohio regulators say they'll need another $5.6 million this year for a medical marijuana tracking database, a toll-free help line and anticipated legal costs responding to lawsuits and complaints challenging the state's licensing process. The Ohio Department of Commerce and State Board of...

Five years after Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana, uncertainty continues in cities and counties across the state over how to regulate pot businesses – or whether to allow them at all. For example, Yakima County voters will determine in November whether a ban on such...

It's a June evening and a Racine police officer spies a suspiciously parked vehicle on Roosevelt Avenue. Approaching the car, he sees a 27-year-old man sitting in the driver's seat smoking what appears to be a joint. A few minutes later, after recovering 1.4 grams of marijuana, he issues the...

The Governor of Nevada made history earlier this month when he declared a "state of emergency" because the state was running out of marijuana. It will go down in the annals of history as the great pot shortage of 2017. This lack of weed occurred immediately after the state legalized the sale...

A medical marijuana nursery is asking a Tallahassee judge to allow it to step in on a case over the state's new law governing the drug. Canadian-based DFMMJ Investments, which inked a deal to take over operations of Chestnut Hill Tree Farm, filed a "motion to intervene" earlier this week with...

With Nevada suffering a shortage of legalized marijuana, California's state pot czar said Wednesday that efforts are being made in her state to make sure sufficient licenses go to farmers, testers and distributors to supply retailers. Providing temporary, four-month licenses to support some...

The state senator who helped push through Ohio's medical marijuana law wants to ask U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Congress to re-classify cannabis. State Sen. Kenny Yuko, D-Richmond Heights, introduced a resolution in the Ohio Senate on...

West Wendover is officially ready for a medical marijuana dispensary – now all the city has to do is wait for interested businesses to apply. The City Council voted 4-to-1 on Tuesday in favor of an ordinance allowing a marijuana dispensary to open within its borders, the city's clerk...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has signed a new law decriminalizing marijuana, making the Granite State the 22nd in the nation to eliminate the possibility of jail time for those convicted of simple possession. The measure passed the Republican-led legislature with huge majorities in May...