Akron City Council unanimously approved legislation regulating the cultivation, processing and sale of medical marijuana in Akron. Akronites can apply for a state permit to grow marijuana without local permits, if they have the signature of a local zoning authority. Source: Akron approves medical marijuana law, and Akronites can apply for state permit before local […]
The state Department of Health is looking to hire staff and write rules on medical marijuana following passage of the state’s new law two weeks ago. Source: North Dakota Health Department begins implementing new medical marijuana law | North Dakota News | bismarcktribune.com
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 […]
SAN LEANDRO — Three approved medical marijuana dispensaries will have to pay more to operate in San Leandro now that the city has imposed a 6 percent business tax that will climb to 8 percent by 2021.San Leandro will levy a 6 percent business tax on cannabis businesses that will increase to 8 percent by July 2021. […]
The 99-plant growing limit previously established in Colorado statute was far higher than any other marijuana state in the nation. Sponsored by House Majority Leader KC Becker, D-Boulder, supporters of House Bill 1220 believe that reducing the residential growing limit to 12 plants can help law enforcement agencies better deter black market growers, investigate massive, illegal operations […]
NEW BEDFORD — Beacon Compassion received a provisional license for New Bedford from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Thursday, Stephen Angelo, the executive director of the company told The Standard-Times. Angelo described the license as “the first step” in a longer journey for the marijuana dispensary… The next phases of the project include developing […]
On Wednesday, March 22, co-sponsors Sen. Heather Steans (D-Il.) and Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Il.) introduced legislation in Illinois that would legalize recreational marijuana. It should be noted that both Steans and Cassidy aren’t planning to bring their bill to vote immediately. Instead, using the move to gauge interest. They plan to hold feedback hearings later […]
The bill passed 28-6, and would create a state cannabis commission responsible for developing policies and regulations. Senate Bill 386 — the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act — would create a state cannabis commission that would be responsible for developing policies and regulations to make medical cannabis available to qualifying patients. The bill will next be […]
New legislation introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, both Oregon Democrats, would take marijuana off the list of federally banned drugs, tax marijuana at a rate similar to alcohol and tobacco, and end the threat of federal criminal penalties for businesses operating in states that allow the use of pot for recreational […]
A new analysis projects that the legal marijuana market in Massachusetts will generate $64 million in state tax revenue in its first year. Retail marijuana sales are now slated to begin on July 1, 2018 after lawmakers pushed the date out by six months to allow for more time to establish regulations. The law, approved by 54 […]
