We’re not even a month into recreational marijuana sales in California, and already, the state has been issuing 50 marijuana licenses per day. The team at Cannabiz Media has been tracking these licenses closely, and with thousands of licenses still ...
January 17, 2018
During the November 2017 MJBizCon event in Las Vegas, Marijuana Business Daily’s Chris Walsh delivered an insightful presentation packed full of predictions and trends that he believed looked very promising for both marijuana legalization ...
November 28, 2017
In November 2016, Arkansas voters approved a medical marijuana amendment to the state constitution. The vote was very close, with 38 counties supporting the amendment and 37 counties opposing it. With this vote, Arkansas became ...
November 9, 2017
Over this past summer and into this fall, numerous cannabis industry developments occurred throughout Indian Country. Interestingly, most of these developments are in the Western United States—states with both medical and adult use legalization; ...
November 7, 2017
The Cannabiz Media Research team completed an exhaustive review of California, and we're excited to launch the California Scorecard. This new Scorecard identifies which municipalities have banned commercial cultivation, manufacturing, ...
November 2, 2017
Controversy isn’t new when it comes to granting marijuana licenses to cultivators, processors, and dispensaries in states that have approved medical marijuana. This month, controversy broke out in Pennsylvania and Florida where questions ...
September 29, 2017
A significant part of the value of a marijuana business is its marijuana license. This is a fact that Canadian investors and companies understand, and it’s prompting many of them to invest tens of millions of dollars into U.S. marijuana businesses.
August 4, 2017
In 2015, limited use of medical marijuana to treat intractable epilepsy was approved in Texas. At the time, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), a law enforcement agency, was put in charge of regulating the program.
May 16, 2017
Last week, the Florida House of Representatives approved its version of the state’s medical marijuana bill (HB 1397) by a 105 to 9 vote. Now, it goes to the Senate, but it’s possible that the Senate could make additional changes and send it back to the House.
May 8, 2017
As of the March 31, 2017 deadline, 76 marijuana use-permit applications had been submitted in Monterey County, California with many applications seeking permits for multiple grow sites, manufacturing locations, and dispensaries.
April 21, 2017
Pennsylvania and Maryland aren’t the only states where marijuana licenses are attracting big investors. Now, Florida marijuana license holders are getting noticed as investors shop for ownership stakes in seven very valuable licenses.
April 4, 2017
Nine months ago, the hot spot for marijuana investors was Maryland. At the time, investors from business, law enforcement, politics, medicine, and many other sectors were vying for marijuana licenses. Today, the hot spot is Pennsylvania, ...
March 24, 2017
If you want to grow your own marijuana, then there are only 16 states where you can live and grow it legally in the United States. If you don’t have a qualifying condition to get medical marijuana, then your options drop to just eight states.
February 24, 2017
In November 2016, Massachusetts was among four states whose residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana, but a new bill signed by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker on December 31, 2016 will slow things down considerably.
January 7, 2017
In an interview with Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Cannabiz Media’s Vice President of Government Affairs, Ed Keating, shared some of the strangest marijuana laws on the books across the 29 states that have legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana.
December 28, 2016
In the Marijuana Licensing Reference Guide: 2017 Edition, Cannabiz Media identified the four most important conditions that a state has to cover in its medical marijuana program in order for businesses operating in the industry to have the greatest potential for success.
December 8, 2016
New York isn’t the only state with overly restrictive medical marijuana regulations, but it is the state in the news about it during the past week. As USA Today reports, counties in the state of New York are experiencing huge gaps between ...
November 3, 2016
The November vote is almost here, and five states will be voting on whether or not to legalize marijuana – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. If all five states end up legalizing marijuana, that would mean a total of 10 states ...
October 21, 2016
It took eight years, but a regulatory framework for growing and selling medical marijuana in Michigan has been finalized at last. Unfortunately, the regulations favor over-regulation — something that Cannabiz Media reveals as a factor that limits ...
October 7, 2016
The November election is almost here, and for many local communities around the country, it’s an opportunity to weigh in on the medical and recreational marijuana industries. You see, there is only one constant in the marijuana industry –
September 23, 2016
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