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Washington's hemp program, not yet a year old, has stopped issuing licenses because of a budget deficit. Restarting the program for a second growing season may depend on whether state lawmakers are willing to invest $287,000 into nurturing a hemp industry that faces high regulatory costs...

Pennsylvania is eyeing a major expansion of its resurgent industrial hemp industry, offering more than three times the number of permits currently issued as part of a pilot program. Hemp, once a major cash crop used to make rope and other textiles, returned to the state last year as the state...

Officials are expected to decide within days whether the Portage Caregiver Center will be able to remain in an Upper Peninsula mall - and expand into a closed JC Penney. Portage Township's Board of Trustees meets Monday, December 11, as it faces a December 15 deadline to opt into new state...

As all cannabis-related California businesses – from the growers to the distributors – make the jump from the black market to the free market in the coming year, they will need to officially register their entity with the Secretary of State's office. When new state regulations allowing...

Nevada may be cruising smoothly toward its second year of legalized recreational marijuana, but the outlook for cannabis is vastly different in states across the country. Early adopter states such as Colorado and Washington are pulling in big bucks – they're projected to have annual...

Last month, I counseled over half a dozen clients to wind down their business operations by the end of 2017. No, I’m not a bankruptcy attorney; I’m a cannabis business and compliance attorney. And while I’m certainly not a cannabis oracle, one thing has become abundantly clear in my practice...

California voters decided last year that the sale of recreational marijuana should be made legal, beginning on Jan. 1, 2018. But Proposition 64 left many of the details to local governments and state regulators. So the last several months have been a race against the calendar, as officials have...

The New York State Medical Marijuana Program has continued to expand in recent years, now servicing 38,128 certified patients via 1,349 registered practitioners, according to the New York State Department of Health (DOH). Of the more than 1,000 New York State doctors approved to certify...

"Cannabis Clubs" might be a new form of entertainment in Massachusetts once recreational pot is legalized. A Cannabis Advisory Board sub-committee wants to create businesses where you can buy and smoke marijuana, similar to a bar that serves alcohol. According to State House News Service...

The five licenses to legally grow marijuana in Arkansas will be awarded Feb. 27, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission decided Friday. The five-member commission gave themselves until Feb. 20 to complete their scoring of the 95 applications the state received in September to operate a...

Gov. Rick Snyder issued rules Monday policing medical marijuana businesses, less than two weeks before the state begins accepting license applications under a new regulatory system. The emergency rules will remain in effect for at least six months until permanent ones are finalized. They...

A state panel formed to consider issues surrounding the legalization of recreational marijuana is resuming its work this week. Wednesday's meeting of the task force meeting will focus on public safety and criminal justice issues involving legalization. Presentations are scheduled from...

California is set to join the legal weed party Jan. 1 when recreational sales become official in the Golden State. The state was one of four, including Nevada, that voted in 2016 to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. With sales projected to top $5 billion once the market gets up and...

In what has become ground zero in the battle for CBD legitimacy, the Indiana state attorney general issued an opinion declaring that CBD is not a legal ingredient and could be seized by state authorities at any time. The state recently has seen local authorities seize hemp oil extract...

Gov. Bruce Rauner is taking a blunt stance, telling a Downstate TV station that it would be a "mistake" to legalize marijuana in Illinois. The Republican governor has, in the past, said he wants more studies on the "ramifications" in states that have legalized the drug. On Wednesday, he took...

Potential medical-marijuana production companies might have shied away from Iowa’s new program because of high fees and a relatively small number of patients who could qualify, a top state administrator said Friday. Just one company, MedPharm Iowa, applied for a state license to grow marijuana...

The guidelines governing commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis were released on Nov. 16 by state regulators, giving potential commercial cannabis growers their first insight into the new industry’s statewide regulations. Regulators released 276 pages of rules that the aspiring industry...

Governor-elect Phil Murphy has vowed to legalize marijuana in New Jersey during his first 100 days in office, but members of Linden's city council are concerned about how the bill is going to impact them and surrounding municipalities. "There are a lot of questions that need to be asked...

Ohioans are a little closer to having access to medical marijuana. The state on Thursday released the list of 12 companies that were granted large-scale cultivation licenses, out of a pool of 109 that applied. The awards come nearly a month after the state announced licenses for 11...

Ohio's nascent medical marijuana industry took a giant step today when the state of Ohio awarded a dozen large-scale grower licenses, including one in Springfield and one in Yellow Springs. The 12 winners were selected from a pool of 109 applicants. The awards come nearly a month after the...