Black market marijuana tied to Chinese criminal networks infiltrates Maine April 17, 2024 AggregatedNews Maine 0 Comments Maine is the newest frontier for the illicit marijuana trade, with potentially hundreds of suspected unlicensed grow houses operating in the state, a CBS News investigation has found. It's part of a larger phenomenon nationwide. Thousands of illegal marijuana farms… Read More→
Germany’s plan to liberalize cannabis rules clears its final parliamentary hurdle March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews Germany 0 Comments The German government's plan to liberalize rules on cannabis cleared its final parliamentary hurdle Friday, paving the way for the possession of limited amounts of marijuana to be decriminalized on April 1. In a second step, “cannabis clubs” that will be allowed… Read More→
Morocco celebrates huge cannabis harvest – legally for the first time March 18, 2024 AggregatedNews Africa 0 Comments Morocco’s first legal cannabis harvest was 294 metric tons in 2023, after the country approved its cultivation and export for medicine and industrial uses, the cannabis regulator has said said. The harvest was made by 32 cooperatives that brought together 430 farmers covering 277… Read More→
NYC will soon let you grow marijuana at home. Here are the proposed rules. January 24, 2024 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New Yorkers could legally get high off their own supply within a few months. The state's Cannabis Control Board will consider rules on Wednesday that would allow residents to grow their own weed at home. The board will vote on… Read More→
Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’ January 17, 2024 AggregatedNews Alabama 0 Comments Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. Authorities seized about five and half pounds of the plant on his property in Baldwin County, allowing authorities to charge him under the state’s marijuana… Read More→
Oklahoma cracks down on marijuana grow facilities violating signage rules November 9, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments The state’s crackdown on marijuana facilities that violate state law includes signs that don’t meet legal standards. The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority has filed 165 petitions for revocation against licensed grow facilities for failure to have signage required by law, the agency… Read More→
Is two too many? Second company seeks state financial assistance to grow marijuana on Minnesota’s Iron Range November 7, 2023 AggregatedNews Minnesota 1 Comment A second company that wants to grow cannabis on the Iron Range in time for the beginning of retail sales in the spring of 2025 has requested financial help from the state agency charged with spurring economic development in the… Read More→
Minnesota legalized marijuana. Now it’s giving a Missouri-based company up to $15 million in forgivable loans to grow it on the Iron Range October 18, 2023 AggregatedNews Minnesota 0 Comments A Missouri-based cannabis company on Tuesday scored a major investor for a project to build a large grow operation in Grand Rapids: the state of Minnesota. The Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, a state agency charged with reinvesting… Read More→
Brazil court to rule on cannabis cultivation, may open door to planting March 21, 2023 AggregatedNews Brazil 0 Comments A Brazilian appeals court has agreed to rule on whether companies and farmers can plant cannabis in the country, which could open the door to legal cultivation for medicinal and industrial purposes after legislative efforts stalled in recent years. The… Read More→
Louisiana’s largest medical marijuana farm doubles weed growing capacity February 9, 2023 AggregatedNews Louisiana 0 Comments Louisiana's largest medical marijuana producer is doubling its cannabis growing space in 2023, citing projections for higher demand and new laws it believes have streamlined regulations. Good Day Farm, the private partner of the LSU AgCenter, is adding 40,000 square… Read More→
How falling pot prices killed a 3rd generation family pot farm in California December 14, 2022 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments Brandon Wheeler has grown pot professionally for 20 years. His parents grew pot before him, and so did his grandparents. Despite these deep roots in the industry, he still felt a weight lift when he pulled his last pot plants… Read More→
Does Kentucky really grow more marijuana than any other state? December 6, 2022 AggregatedNews Kentucky 0 Comments From decades-old news articles to political talking points to social media comment sections, conversations about marijuana in Kentucky bring an oft-repeated claim. Kentucky produces more cannabis than any other state, the claim goes, making the illegal drug the Bluegrass State’s… Read More→
Report: Over 27 Million Pounds Of U.S. Legal Marijuana Industry Will Be Cultivated By 2030 September 21, 2022 AggregatedNews Cannabis & Hemp Research, Cultivation 1 Comment U.S. medical and adult-use cannabis markets have been growing in recent years as new states are increasingly regulating the sale of legal products for medical and recreational use. In such a scenario, cannabis cultivation plays an important key role in… Read More→
New York’s 1st legal marijuana crop sprouts under the sun June 29, 2022 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments New York's recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward the sun in farms around the state. In a novel move, New York gave 203 hemp growers first shot at cultivating marijuana destined for legal sales, which… Read More→
Thailand legalizes marijuana — with gray areas and caveats June 10, 2022 AggregatedNews Thailand 0 Comments Thailand on Thursday made legal the growth and trade of marijuana within set parameters — becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to do so. Thai Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told CNN that he hopes the move will help boost the country’s… Read More→