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Several years ago cannabis conventions might have seemed like an underground event, but now they are hosted in major countries around the world with thousands of professional attendees from dozens of countries. MJBizCon was one of the most recent, held in Las Vegas, and featured 158 speakers, 1,027 exhibitors, and 27,600 cannabis professionals. Colombia also feat...

Congress is finally going to hear a bill that would drastically change the way that state-legal cannabis businesses operate. Currently a large majority of cannabis businesses are only able to take cash trasactions and pay employees in cash. While it may only seem like a nuisance at first it has actually become quite the dangerous practice. To criminals, dispensar...

Pennsylavania's medical marijuana program recently finished it's first full year of operation and with over 116,000 registered patients and almost 1,000 certified physicians it seems to be off to a great start. Officials say their goals are to continue increasing the number of growers and dispensaries to help facilitate the large amount of patients. The state ...

Missouri voters said YES to Amendment 2 this last November and now a major step has been taken in Kansas City to prepare patients for the incoming medical marijuana program. The city's first medical marijuana clinic, where patients are able to meet with a doctor and learn if medical cannabis is right for them and receive a referral card. The clinic is different fr...

The Governor of Wisconsin will soon be proposing a new state budget that would include the decriminalization of small amounts of cannabis while also legalizing medical marijuana for patients with certain qualifying conditions like cancer, PTSD, chronic pain, and more. Ontop of a comprehensive medical marijuana program the use of CBD oil for treating seizures will also...

The debate rages on in Maryland as lawmakers are considering adding opioid use disorder to the state's list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. After a similar bill did not pass last year Maryland's medical marijuana commission studied if the condition has evidence for successfully being treated by cannabis and concluded that "there is no cred...

The European Parliament earlier this week passed a resolution that intends to reinforce notion that cannabis needs to be reevaultated for medical research and use in European countries. While the resolution does not enact any laws, like the World Health Organization, it is recommending that action be taken and supports countries in doing so. Officials from GenX Biosci...

Georgia legalized the possession and use of low-dose medical cannabis oil back in 2015 but left their patients without a legal way to purchase or grow the medicine. They're not the only state to pass a flawed law but a newly introduced measure would finally legalize the cultivation and sale of medical cannabis for patients who are approved for a qualifying medical...

In a study of over 860,000 students from 1999-2015, researchers found that states with legalized medical marijuana programs did not see an increase in youth cannabis use. However what the researchers did find was a decrease in use from teenagers of about 1.1%, and while the decrease is subtle, the larger point is that regulating medical cannabis does not mean teenager...

Michigan voters legalized medical marijuana over 10 years ago and now that recreational mairjuana has also been legalized the state is making some changes to it's medical cannabis regulations to help ease costs on patients. Originally the cost of a state registered medical marijuana card was $100 for 1 year and the new proposal would make it $40 for two years...

Residents of Shorewood, Wisconsin are ready to legalize marijuana, but when that didn't happen officials proposed cannabis decriminalization and a fine that would be fair and affordable to everyone. Current fines for possessing less than 1 ounce of cannabis in Shorewood is $250 plus state surcharges, but if this ordinance becomes law it would bring the fine d...

More lawsuits are sprouting around the United States involving state legal medical marijuana patients being terminated or denied employment soley based on their medical marijuana use. Recently a Connecticut man was applying for a position as a firefighter in Bridgeport. Everything was going smoothly as he passed all his requirements, except one. Despite being a state ...