Published: Mar 19, 2018, 5:00 am • Updated: Mar 18, 2018, 9:39 pm By Bart Schaneman, Marijuana Business Daily DENVER — Nevada’s recreational marijuana supplies are plentiful but not overly abundant, keeping wholesale cannabis prices on the high side compared to other adult-use markets. Business owners in the Silver State don’t expect wholesale prices to […]
Published: Feb 6, 2018, 11:50 am • Updated: Feb 6, 2018, 11:51 am By John Frank, The Denver Post Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is exploring whether to release nearly 40 inmates convicted of nonviolent marijuana offenses. The desire to commute the sentences is a policy statement on marijuana from the Democrat’s administration as well as […]
Published: Sep 25, 2017, 9:19 am • Updated: Sep 25, 2017, 9:37 am By The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas pilot whose suspicious flight pattern from Oregon to Arizona drew law enforcement attention must serve three years in federal prison for the drug-smuggling trip. Wayne Douglas Brunet in June pleaded guilty to possession […]
Published: Mar 14, 2018, 10:15 am • Updated: Mar 14, 2018, 10:15 am By Rick Carroll, The Aspen Times A federal judge in Denver has ruled that more than $3 million in assets held by Colorado marijuana mogul Jeffrey Friedland be temporarily frozen, but not a Snowmass Village home that the Securities & Exchange Commission […]
Published: Jul 31, 2017, 8:44 am • Updated: Jul 31, 2017, 8:44 am By The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A proposed rule for Ohio’s medical marijuana program says edible products that resemble cartoon characters, superheroes or pop-culture figures should not be allowed. The Columbus Dispatch reports that it’s among more than 100 proposed medical […]
Published: Nov 20, 2017, 8:36 am • Updated: Nov 20, 2017, 8:36 am By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press BOSTON — They may not be mad about reefer, but a growing number of Massachusetts communities are leaving their borders open to commercial marijuana businesses, bucking a wave of bans and moratoriums that followed voter approval […]
Published: Jul 27, 2016, 6:21 am • Updated: Jul 28, 2016, 6:40 am By Jake Browne, The Cannabist Staff Have you given my mom weed? As an intrepid Uber driver, Deb Browne has been gifted her fair share of cannabis that tourists couldn’t finish during their stays in Colorado. Usually, the stray pre-roll or abandoned […]
Published: Dec 21, 2017, 8:46 am • Updated: Dec 21, 2017, 11:55 am By The Associated Press YORK, Neb. — An elderly couple who was arrested in Nebraska with 60 pounds of marijuana in their truck told officers that the drugs were meant to be Christmas presents. The York News-Times reports the couple were arrested […]
Published: Jul 25, 2017, 11:42 am • Updated: Jul 25, 2017, 1:17 pm By The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Labor says the majority of businesses won’t be able to fire an employee for a marijuana-positive drug tests unless they can prove impairment on the job. Backers of the marijuana referendum […]
Published: Aug 11, 2017, 8:19 am • Updated: Aug 11, 2017, 8:21 am By Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post “Federal drug prosecutions have gone down in recent years. We’re going to be bringing them up and bringing them up rapidly. At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer than in 2011. So they […]