The importance of residency has become a complicated ongoing issue for marijuana business owners in the state of Washington, where requirements for marijuana businesses are strict, yet muddled. What started as a residency restriction meant to control big outside mega corporations from putting local businesses at a disadvantage has led…
A clarification to state regulation regarding marijuana delivery services is offering hope to thousands of abandoned California cannabis users while stirring up the same old fear-based tropes from the anti-marijuana camp. The California Bureau of Cannabis Control is reviewing a set of proposed regulations that would allow licensed marijuana businesses…
It seems parents and schools are finally giving more thought to children and the ailments that can be treated with medical marijuana. Delaware News Journal reported an increasing number of parents are turning to cannabis for their children with especially serious or rare conditions. It’s no wonder then that California…
A recent bill out of the California state house would make marijuana compassionate-care programs exempt from the substantial state taxes on the medical cannabis that they supply to patients in need. SB 829 corrects a hole in Proposition 64, which saddled these not-for-profit organizations with taxes. The Compassionate Use Act…
Economics 101 teaches us about supply and demand, but you don’t need a business degree to see that the supply of recreational marijuana retailers is way lower than the demand in California. For every 100,000 residents, there is less than one store available that sells adult-use product, according to recent…
When starting a cannabis business, there are obvious considerations, such as product, employees, and location. An equally important, but less discussed, element is security. Considering some security measures are actually built into the regulations for marijuana businesses, this is certainly not something to be taken lightly. Cannabis Business Times recently…
It is common knowledge among our marijuana business attorneys and our clients that banks are highly restricted in how they can interact with the cannabis industry. Wells Fargo, however, recently took those restrictions too far when the bank closed the account of a candidate in Florida who made cannabis legalization…
To assist California cannabis growers establish their regions as brands, the California Department of Food and Agriculture is working on a system of regulations for naming craft cannabis strains. According to a report from Ganjapreneur, this is similar to the way the system of naming works for wines, in which…
It’s about time. The Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to increase the amount of cannabis to be legally grown for research purposes in the U.S. and decrease the amount of opioid drugs produced under the group’s watch. You heard that right. The same organization whose leaders for years have been…
Constellation Brands has made the biggest investment the marijuana industry has ever seen with a mighty $4 billion going to Canopy Growth. Canopy Growth, a Canadian company, was already considered one of the giants of the cannabis industry, and this investment will only further their global footprint, according to a…