Latest Cannabis Headlines
All the headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nevada Gambling Regulators Don’t Want Marijuana in Casinos
Sep 4 2017 // Nevada’s gambling regulators are grappling with how to deal with the state’s latest legal vice — recreational marijuana — and they’ve made it clear that pot doesn’t belong in casinos. In...
Colorado Tells Sessions That Pot Industry Is Working And Can Be Better
Aug 29 2017 // Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is working – and can work better with federal collaboration, the state’s governor and Republican attorney general told U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a letter. Gov....
Nevada Gambling Regulators Don’t Want Marijuana in Casinos
Aug 28 2017 // Nevada’s gambling regulators are grappling with how to deal with the state’s latest legal vice – recreational marijuana – and they’ve made it clear that pot doesn’t belong in casinos. In the...
Senator Flanagan First Appointee to Massachusetts Marijuana Regulatory Post
Aug 25 2017 // A state senator was named Wednesday by Governor Charlie Baker to the regulatory board that will oversee the cannabis industry in Massachusetts. Sen. Jennifer Flanagan, of Leominster, is the first appointee to the...
Pennsylvania Law Firms Hedge Bets on Marijuana Being Legalized Nationwide
Aug 24 2017 // A number of Philadelphia-area law firms are setting up practices to serve the cannabis industry despite concerns of an uncertain future. Many of the city’s biggest law firms – including Duane Morris, Fox...
Denver Soon to Open Legal Marijuana Clubs
Aug 23 2017 // Colorado’s largest city is on the brink of licensing some of the nation’s first legal marijuana clubs. But Denver’s elaborate hurdles for potential weed-friendly coffee shops and gathering places may mean...
Los Angeles Makes Packer Cannabis Czar over Legal Pot Industry
Aug 18 2017 // With recreational marijuana use just months away from being legal in California, Los Angeles has appointed a so-called cannabis czar tasked with regulating the local pot industry. The Daily News reported the City Council...
Florida Police: Tiger Woods Had Marijuana, Painkillers in System When Arrested for DUI
Aug 17 2017 // Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this year, a report released Tuesday by police said. Police in Jupiter,...
Nevada Issuing Marijuana Distribution Licenses to Non-Liquor Wholesalers
Aug 14 2017 // Nevada marijuana regulators have decided to start issuing pot distribution licenses to businesses other than liquor wholesalers to keep up with overwhelming demand since legal recreational sales began July 1. The Nevada...
Vermont Governor Creating Commission for Pot Legalization Issues
Aug 10 2017 // Vermont Governor Phil Scott says he’s organizing a commission to study issues related to the legalization of marijuana and will announce members in the next few days. Vermont Public Radio reports retail outlets in...
Marijuana Task Force Undercuts Hard Line by Attorney General Sessions
Aug 8 2017 // The betting was that law-and-order Attorney General Jeff Sessions would come out against the legalized marijuana industry with guns blazing. But the task force Sessions assembled to find the best legal strategy is giving...
Oregon’s Cannabis Coast Becoming Home for Legal Pot Dealers
Aug 7 2017 // Eddie Biggar sports a black-and-green suit dotted with tiny green leaves as he dances jovially on a corner of the Pacific Coast Highway. Some two-and-a-half hours southwest of Portland, he owns the sidewalk. Just like a...
‘Office Of Cannabis’ OK’d by San Francisco Supervisors
Aug 7 2017 // San Francisco officials have approved a new Office of Cannabis in advance of recreational marijuana sales starting in California next year. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Board of Supervisors also directed...
Massachusetts SJC Rules in Favor of Employee Fired for Medical Marijuana Use
Aug 7 2017 // The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in favor of a woman who was fired by her employer for testing positive for her prescribed use of marijuana to treat a medical condition. The court found that because...
Minnesota PTSD Patients Can Now Purchase Medical Marijuana
Aug 2 2017 // Minnesota residents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder can start buying medical marijuana. This week brought the latest expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program that launched in July 2015....
Viewpoint: Employers Rejecting Marijuana Users Will Pay a Price
Jul 28 2017 // In Youngstown, Ohio, the employment problem is not a shortage of jobs. Nor is it a shortage of workers. The problem is not stingy employers who don’t want to pay enough to attract good workers. Nor is the problem...
‘Office Of Cannabis’ OK’d by San Francisco Supervisors
Jul 27 2017 // San Francisco officials have approved a new Office of Cannabis in advance of recreational marijuana sales starting in California next year. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Board of Supervisors also directed...
Maine Legislative Panel Mulls Raising 10 Percent Tax on Marijuana
Jul 25 2017 // As the legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Maine nears, a legislative panel has spent months pondering the best way to tax pot to bring in state revenue, fund regulatory enforcement and discourage the illicit...
Declarations
Jul 24 2017 // Reasonable Doubt “Because of this intervening weather event, the state is unable to prove the criminal responsibility of the two juveniles beyond a reasonable doubt for the devastation that occurred outside the Great...
Marijuana Dispensaries and Crime
Jul 24 2017 // A new study published in the July issue of the Journal of Urban Economics finds that contrary to popular belief, medical marijuana dispensaries (MMDs) reduce crime in their immediate areas. In the study, “Going to...
