Growers fret as Mexico moves to legalize marijuana

April 16, 2021
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BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (AP) — For the first time that María can remember, half of her marijuana harvest is still in storage on her ranch in Mexico’s Sinaloa state months after it should have been sold. Sitting in her wooden house…

Patients fear losing access to medical cannabis amid push to restrict amateur grow operations in Hawaii

April 14, 2021
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Since the day medical cannabis was legalized in Hawaii more than two decades ago, the program has centered around the rights of patients and caregivers to grow their own marijuana. But now, state health officials want to create new rules…

New York cannabis farmers: Let us plant legal marijuana now

It’s almost planting season in Upstate New York, and farmers are ready to spring into action. But for the farmers hoping to jump into the recently legalized business of growing marijuana for recreational use, there’s a problem. The state may…

North Macedonia Awaits Marijuana Laws to Become a ‘Cannabis Superpower’

March 25, 2020
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In a desolate industrial zone of this capital city, a cannabis grow house is under construction that, when finished, will span 178,000 square feet, about the size of a Walmart superstore. At full capacity, 17 tons of marijuana a year,…

Aurora Cannabis Marijuana Peak Production Leaps Higher

Aurora Cannabis (NYSE:ACB) is Canada's second-largest marijuana company by revenue behind Canopy Growth (NYSE:CGC), but expansion projects could catapult it into first place someday. Aurora Cannabis went into this week with funded expansion projects targeting over 550,000 kilograms annually and exiting this week, its…

Michigan’s medical marijuana dispensaries could run out of pot to buy

November 16, 2018
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The 40 newly licensed medical marijuana dispensaries around the state are facing a shortage of pot from licensed growers, meaning some may have to shut their doors until spring. Michigan so far has licensed only 12 marijuana growers. From the time of…

Ohio’s new medical marijuana industry has a big problem: What to do with its money.

October 19, 2018
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When Ohio's medical marijuana dispensaries finally open their doors later this year or early next year, they're expected to rake in a ton of cash. But they're unlikely to head straight to the bank with it. Most banks and credit unions…

Mandatory Testing Costly For Colorado Marijuana Growers

New mandatory marijuana pesticide testing in Colorado is putting a financial squeeze on local cultivators to the tune of thousands of dollars in increased costs. The added expense is the latest financial blow to hit the state’s cultivators, which are…

Oklahoma’s Medical Marijuana Industry Will Be Cash-Only

Oklahoma’s adoption of medical marijuana will be green in more ways than one: Retail dispensaries, processors, growing operations and tax agencies will have to work within a cash-only industry. With marijuana still illegal at the federal level, businesses involved in…

Boston Approves Zoning Regulations For Marijuana Businesses

Recreational marijuana businesses are welcome to set up shop on the main streets of Boston, but cannot cluster near one another, under new rules approved by city zoning officials Wednesday. Approved by the Boston Zoning Commission on an 8-1 vote,…

California Considers Cutting Marijuana Taxes To Draw Legal Customers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Less than three months after California launched legal marijuana sales for adults, the state could consider temporarily slashing hefty tax rates that some say are driving buyers into the black market. Growers and sellers in the nation’s largest legal…

Oregon Marijuana Prices Plummet As More Producers Appear

February 16, 2018
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The retail and wholesale prices of pot in Oregon are falling with the proliferation of producers and recreational marijuana shops, according to an analysis by a state economist. “The biggest thing is just competition,” said Josh Lehner, an economist with…

Northern California County Turns Back On Growers – Votes To Ban Marijuana

A previously pot friendly rural Northern California county has reversed course and banned commercial marijuana farms, paving the way for lawsuits from growers who previously received permits and paid taxes. A newly constituted Calaveras County board of supervisors last week…

Nevada Marijuana Growers Worry As New Regulations Arrive

January 17, 2018
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Nevada marijuana growers are fearful of going out of business as the state moves forward with a set of permanent regulations that some cultivators say give dispensaries an economic advantage. Cultivators before the Nevada Tax Commission on Tuesday lamented the number…

Aurora Cannabis Looks To Make $3 Billion Merger With CanniMed Therapeutics

Look out, Canopy Growth Corporation. Your reign as the pure-play marijuana stock with the highest market cap might not last for long. On Tuesday, Aurora Cannabis announced that it had submitted a proposal to acquire all shares of another Canadian marijuana grower, CanniMed Therapeutics. Aurora is…