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In California the Moreno Valley City Council voted earlier this year to limit the number of cannabis businesses that were allowed to open in their city shortly after California's recreational program went live at the beginning of the year. With no more than 27 cannabis businesses permitted in the city that leaves 8 dispensaries, 8 cultivators, 5 manufacturers, 2 t...

The fight for medical marijuana in Utah is stronger than ever and at this point the battle no longer seems to be if medical marijuana should be in Utah, but which bill will become law, Proposition 2 that could be picked by voters, or the compromise bill created behind closed doors by legislators. The compromise bill will have it's first public hearing next week bu...

New marijuana business deals are creating superpower companies in the U.S. and Canadian cannabis markets as MedMen purchases PharmaCann for $682 million. Now the largest American marijuana business, MedMen has licensed business in 12 states among 79 facilities including retailers, cultivators and processing buildings. Often compared to Apple stores due to their modern...

Illinois residents have a short window coming up to both listen to the proposals being made about legalizing recreational marijuana and voice their opinions. A town hall meeting is planned for Des Plaines this coming Wednesday where state representatives will be making a presentation and holding a discussion on the "pros and cons of cannabis legalization". R...

Colorado has had one of the most famous legal cannabis industries in the U.S. as they were among the first to legalize recreational use alongside Washington back in 2012. Since then several other states have legalized recreational cannabis while over half of the country has legalized medical cannabis. Though legal cannabis has become popular in many parts of the count...

Canada launches it's long-time-coming recreational cannabis market next week and while many cannabis connoisseurs are excited to get their hands on their favorite potent product, there is an expectation of many new customers or maybe people who haven't tried cannabis since their youth. The potent products will be expected and widely available, but new cus...

The New Jersey Department of Health issued a statement this week saying that although they intended to have 6 more marijuana dispensaries picked and approved by November that they will not be able to meet that deadline. They receieved 146 applications by August for those 6 open spots and with an average of 300 pages per application it is not a fast process for reviewe...

Earlier this year Facebook made a major change to it's search function by beginning to filter out searches related to cannabis. While the intention was to hault illicit sales that were taking place on the social network they also filtered out many legitimate state legal businesses, government entities, and advocacy and industry groups purely because the word canna...

Marijuana law reform has been on the state level for the last 20 years as state legislatures or voter initiatives in over half of the U.S. have taken it into their own hands to change their state laws while the federal government stands idly by. While federal cannabis law reform has barely been mentioned by nearly any sitting president in that time period Preside...

Governor Bruce Rauner of Illinois has been a key component in the progress of the state's medical marijuana program this year as he has not only added important qualifying conditions for the program but he also recently signed a bill that allows medical cannabis to be an alternative option where prescription opioids would be given. Despite his great support of the...

Canada's adult-use cannabis market is set to go live next week and several major companies have already begun research and/or development into new cannabis product lines. An official from Walmart said they were looking into carrying CBD-infused products in Canada but they have not made official plans to follow through yet. Though THC products will be legal in...

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board is in charge of regulations for the state's cannabis industry and their new ruling has some cannabis businesses upset and worried for their financial future. The board announced last week that starting in January it will no longer be legal to manufacture or sell hard candy, tarts, fruit chews, colorful chocolate, jell...