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Moratorium on dispensaries expires Thursday. The County Commission on Tuesday finalized its ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries. The highlights: + Marion County will allow up to five dispensaries — a number chosen based on the county’s population. Permits will be issued on a...

Recreational marijuana use was approved by the voters here in Colorado in November 2012 and became legal on Jan. 1, 2014. I wish that just one day or even one daily newscast would go by without a story about marijuana. It seems to come up all the time. I recently reconnected with a friend from...

The three California agencies that will regulate the state medical-marijuana industry released their proposed rules for the state system recently, and it appears some of the proposed regulations will conflict with existing Riverside County ordinances. Counties may enact laws that modify or...

The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday listened to arguments from the Reno Gazette-Journal and city of Sparks in a lawsuit that could determine whether the names of medical marijuana business licensees will be public record. The RGJ has requested copies of current business licenses for marijuana...

Several years ago, the Duque family traded in its trash business for a slightly better smelling replacement, but only slightly. The Reno family, best known for running the former Castaway Trash Hauling company in Sparks for a decade, last year started growing marijuana in a 33,800...

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper met with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week and left the meeting with the distinct understanding that the recreational marijuana industry will not face the federal crackdown that it had feared. According to an editorial in the Denver Post, the big...

A marijuana business seminar will be held Saturday and Sunday, to cover medicinal marijuana issues, but also to prepare clients for an anticipated legalization of recreational pot in Florida within years. "If you just look at medical marijuana in Florida as it stands today, yes, the...

When the smoke cleared at the public meeting on a cannabis-related business zoning amendment Monday night the only people who remained unmoved by the concerns of the 25 people who showed up was city council. Thirty minutes after the public meeting ended council approved adoption of the...

With recreational marijuana getting all the attention these days, it's easy to forget how far the medical marijuana industry has come since California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. Today, Arcview Market Research estimates that the legal medical marijuana industry...

Alaska Congressman Don Young said he's never smoked marijuana. But recognizing that his constituents have voted to legalize it, Young says he wants to change federal law to help marijuana entrepreneurs do business. The issue has Young joining forces with congressmen of different stripes. They...

Petersburg – Now that marijuana businesses are up and running in Alaska, a resident of a small town on Prince of Wales Island is hoping to get support from the town's voters to open up a pot business of his own. Brian Wilson Jr. has submitted application materials to the state to start a...

Bremerton, Wash. - Kitsap County's first marijuana business has been shut down by regulators who alleged the recreational pot grow operation had repeatedly failed to pay its taxes. Agents with the state Liquor and Cannabis Board seized about 2,000 plants and clones from Nine Point Growth...

The Remedy Shoppe, Skagway's first marijuana retail store and the first to receive a license in the state of Alaska, opened for business on Jan. 20. Business was brisk. Customers filled the store's interior, and in less than an hour a line had formed to purchase one of the four strains of...

"The times they are a-changin" sang 60's icon and Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan, but I'm not sure even he could have predicted the rapid change occurring in the United States regarding the cannabis business. While still illegal at the federal level, pot is currently legal for recreational use...

Carson City - The Nevada Supreme Court on Monday listened to arguments from the Reno Gazette-Journal and city of Sparks in a lawsuit that could determine whether the names of medical marijuana business licensees will be public record. The RGJ has requested copies of current business licenses...

The Grover Beach City Council voted unanimously Monday for a pair of ordinances that will establish a marijuana business district and a tax on commercial activity involving cannabis. Grover Beach plans to create a marijuana district in a 70-acre industrial zone that is located between Farroll...

With four years of legal cannabis under our belts here in Colorado, we've seen some fortunes created by bringing an enormous black market online as a wholly new and regulated industry. For those that are considering the opportunity created by Election Day legalization in their home state, we can...

Of all the industries that attract American women to their senior ranks, the marijuana business may not immediately spring to mind as a likely magnet. But women fill 36 percent of executive positions in US companies that grow, test, sell, and market pot products in this ballooning...

After spearheading California's successful initiative to legalize marijuana, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to offer his support to the cannabis community. Newsom will join the state's leading marijuana regulators and business people at the International Cannabis Business Conference in San...

Thirty percent of marijuana businesses are audited each year by the IRS; adding to that pressure is the threat of new regulations the industry may have to adopt. To ease the load, Keegan Peterson founded Wurk, which helps marijuana companies keep track of all their business records – from...