January 25, 2012

Officials Attempt to Iron Out Washington Medical Cannabis Laws After Tumultuous Year for MMJ

Lawmakers are trying once again to tweak medical pot laws in Washington State in a bid to come up with a long-lasting solution that will appease marijuana dispensaries, cannabis patients, [click to read more...]

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 3, 2012

Montana’s Medical Cannabis Industry Shrivelling After Rapid, Uncontrolled Growth

Yet another state with medical pot laws on the books is seeing its MMJ sector shrivel as the entire industry grapples with a federal crackdown, damaging court rulings, falling registered [click to read more...]

November 28, 2011

Chris Walsh: Contrary to Conventional Wisdom, Recent Raids Positive for Medical Pot

By Chris Walsh You’ve no doubt seen the stories: Federal agents armed with guns, shields and even battering rams storm medical marijuana dispensaries and grow operations, seizing computers, boxes of [click to read more...]

November 28, 2011

Weekly Wrapup: Record Support for Medical Pot, MA Moves Forward While CO Town Backtracks

Although most of us skipped out early last week to celebrate Thanksgiving, the medical marijuana world still generated plenty of meaty news ahead of the holiday. First, the good: A [click to read more...]

November 22, 2011

Pot Dispensaries Not the Only MMJ Businesses Ensnarled in Recent Raids

Much of the media coverage surrounding the recent raids in Washington State and Montana focused on how federal agents targeted medical marijuana dispensaries, as they are the most visible part [click to read more...]

November 21, 2011

Weekly Wrapup: West Coast Raids, East Coast Progress and Pot Reality Show Debut Date

Given the avalanche of negative news surrounding medical cannabis last week, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the industry was crumbling at its very foundation. At least in the western [click to read more...]

November 17, 2011

Montana Dispensaries Latest Targets in Widening Medical Pot Crackdown

The Obama administration’s ballooning crackdown on the medical marijuana industry has extended to Montana, with federal agents raiding a dozen medical marijuana dispensaries and several financial institutions in the past [click to read more...]

November 17, 2011

U.S. District Attorney: ‘Brash Criminal Conduct’ Led to Washington State Raids

Wondering why the federal government launched an aggressive sweep of medical cannabis centers in Washington this week? U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan pinned the raids and arrests on “brash criminal conduct” [click to read more...]

November 16, 2011

Feds Raid 14 Dispensaries, Arrest 18 MMJ Workers in Several Washington Cities

Federal agents backed by local and state police officers raided more than a dozen dispensaries in Seattle, Tacoma and several other Washington cities on Tuesday, part of a high-profile move [click to read more...]

November 10, 2011

Attorney: Hearing Could Trigger Shift in Nevada’s Medical Marijuana Laws

Nevada is technically one of the 16 states in the U.S. with medical marijuana regulations on the books. But its MMJ ordinance has a huge shortcoming: It doesn’t specifically address [click to read more...]

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Rob Hunt: Massachusetts Dispensary Regulations Will Create Shotgun Marriages, Boost Risk

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By Robert E. Hunt So you want to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts? [click to read more...]

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