While voters have already made recreational marijuana legal up and down the West Coast, from Alaska to California, Canada is expected to become only the second nation to completely legalize pot on July 1, 2018. Such a big move would be all but certain to produce spillover effects in the United States.

This article in the Miami Herald explores the consequences and current signs of Trump Crack downs on marijuana at the border. Source: MARIJUANA: Canada pot clash with US border patrol | Miami Herald

Home growing is becoming a big business in Massachusetts. At NECANN vendors were selling light kits, grow tents, soil and cultivation kits which can run from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

In Massachusetts, it’s still illegal to sell marijuana without a license. The law sets the limit on how many plants you can grow at six, or a maximum of 12 if there’s two people in the house. The plants must also be under lock and key and must be grown in your primary residence.

Source: New marijuana growing culture predicted to explode in Massachusetts | Boston 25 News

“I have long believed justice that isn’t blind, isn’t justice. Statistics indicate that minor narcotics crimes disproportionately hurt areas of lower socio-economic status and what I find most troubling is that we continue to keep laws on the books that we do not enforce. Virginia is more than capable of handling its own marijuana policy, as are states such as Colorado or California.”

Source: Garrett Announces Press Conference on Federal Marijuana Deregulation Legislation | Congressman Tom Garrett

Mexico’s lower house overwhelmingly passed a bill Friday approving the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the latest in a series of legal changes and court rulings that have somewhat relaxed cannabis laws in Mexico.

The measure does not allow smoking marijuana, but directs the Health Department to “design public policies to regulate the medicinal use of this plant and its derivatives.”

Source: Mexico’s lower house approves medical uses of marijuana – The Washington Post

Avoca native Mary Pat Julias wants to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Mayfield and Wilkes-Barre, PA as part of a larger ambition: to offer a holistic approach to helping people become healthy and lead productive lives. Julias is among hundreds of applicants in PA.

Read more from the Source: Marijuana applicants waiting on state’s OK – News – Standard Speaker or Read about PA Seed to Sale Regulations here. 

Lori Ajax, chief of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation and her team have now produced detailed medical marijuana regulations for distributors, transporters, laboratories and retailers. The state to produce the 58-page document released Friday. California regulations for medical marijuana have been released according to a popular online weed resource, The Cannifornian,

The 211 pages of regulations lay out standards for any marijuana business that wants to get licensed by the state, with rules for how big weed farms can be, what pesticides they can use, what packaging for edibles must look like and more.

Meanwhile, the Department of Public Health has been crafting 95 pages of rules for companies that manufacture cannabis products, such as edibles and concentrates. And the Department of Food and Agriculture has been drafting regulations for the state’s thousands of marijuana cultivators.

Source: California releases plan to regulate medical marijuana industry – The Cannifornian

Last month the California Governor released a plan to align medical marijuana and Prop 64, for recreational marijuana which passed last year. The development of California regulations for medical marijuana proves the evolution of the industry is in progress before all of our eyes.

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The scene in Michigan highlights how more established industries will likely insert themselves into the legalization process to gain a foothold in the multibillion-dollar cannabis industry.

Read more from the Source: Alcohol, tobacco interests eyeing Michigan marijuana market – Marijuana Business Daily

Politically connected developer Jay Odom is suing his partners in a state-licensed medical marijuana dispensary over a pending sale to a new operator out of Canada.

Read More from the Source: Partners of Florida medical marijuana grower fight in court over pending sale | Miami Herald

Voters in Westwood (MA) have decided resoundingly to prohibit recreational marijuana businesses in the town, joining a growing number of communities that have outlawed the legal operations within their town borders.

Source: Westwood joins growing number in banning marijuana shops – The Boston Globe

The Department of Health has revealed a few new details on the lengthy rollout of its medical marijuana program. The names of dozens of potential dispensaries have been released, though officials won’t say where exactly they’ll be located. The deadline to apply for licenses to grow or sell marijuana was March 20th.

According to Source: State releasing names of potential marijuana sellers | News | witf.org The Announcement came 4/27 on the states Medical Marijuana Program website. 

On 4/20 the Department of Health announced that the Department of Health selected MJ Freeway to implement the seed-to-sale electronic tracking system for Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Program. This was a little surprising as MJ Freeway has struggled to implement it’s only state contract with Nevada. MJ Freeway also experienced a major security breach in early 2017, loosing thousands of business and customer records.