January 18, 2012

Marijuana Raids Target Four San Diego Dispensaries as DEA Continues to Close California Pot Shops

The federal Drug Enforcement Agency has raided several medical marijuana businesses in San Diego over the past week, highlighting the Obama administration’s efforts to conduct a sustained crackdown on California [click to read more...]

January 16, 2012

Weekly Wrapup: Crackdown in Colorado + Dispensaries to Launch in Arizona

Two very different developments emerged in the MMJ industry at the end of last week, one immensely negative and one immensely positive for medical cannabis. First, the bad news: The [click to read more...]

January 16, 2012

Ellen Komp: Why the Medical Marijuana Industry Should Work For Employment Rights

By Ellen Komp Californians, and the medical marijuana industry, have a chance to make an important stride for human rights in the coming weeks. Senate Bill 129 – introduced by [click to read more...]

January 12, 2012

California Inititative Would Help Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Fight Back Against ‘Hostile’ IRS

A new voter initiative in California to legalize and regulate the general use of marijuana could help protect medical pot dispensaries from the Internal Revenue Service. The Regulate Marijuana Like [click to read more...]

December 23, 2011

Memo Outlines Top Triggers for Federal Prosecution in California Medical Pot Crackdown

What is the federal government looking for when determining whether to bust a medical marijuana dispensary or grow operation? That’s the $1 million question in California, where the Obama administration [click to read more...]

December 22, 2011

Attorney General to Lawmakers: Clarify CA Medical Cannabis Laws, Decide if Dispensaries are Legal

Talk about making a mockery of Swiss cheese. While Michigan’s attorney general used that phrase when talking about all the holes in the state’s medical marijuana laws, those words could [click to read more...]

December 20, 2011

San Diego Dispensaries Hope to Revive Local MMJ Industry Via Sales Tax Initiative

When all else fails, show them the money. This is the strategy medical marijuana advocates in San Diego are using to help revive the city’s comatose MMJ industry, crafting a [click to read more...]

December 12, 2011

Weekly Wrapup: Big Medical Cannabis Decision in California, AG Holder Talks Medical Pot

Last week was a relatively tame one for the medical marijuana industry, with only a trickle of negative news instead of the typical flood. In California, Sacramento County supervisors voted [click to read more...]

December 6, 2011

Sacramento County Weighing Measure to Officially Ban Pot Dispensaries, Protests Expected

Sacramento County supervisors will consider an outright ban on medical marijuana dispensaries this afternoon, a move that would effectively knock out the staggering, stumbling MMJ industry in unincorporated areas of [click to read more...]

December 5, 2011

Weekly Wrapup: Ruling Could Devastate CA Pot Industry, MMJ Programs in Other States Gain Traction

What the heck is happening in California? I find myself asking that question on a regular basis. Its future seems to get gloomier all the time, what with the series [click to read more...]

December 5, 2011

Weekly Wrapup: More Bad News for California, But Encouraging Signs for MMJ Elsewhere

What the heck is happening in California? Its future seems to get gloomier all the time, what with the series of raids, court rulings and dispensary bans as of late. [click to read more...]

December 1, 2011

San Diego’s Medical Pot Industry Going Up in Smoke as Feds Force Dispensaries to Close

The worst-case scenario is playing out for the MMJ industry in San Diego, which has become a focal point of the federal government’s war on medical weed. In the past [click to read more...]

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Aaron Smith: 5 Ways Marijuana Businesses Can Secure a Future for the Cannabis Industry

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