Vancouver authorities’ laissez-faire attitude toward the city’s bustling grey-market cannabis scene has long been the stuff of legend. Whereas Toronto police execute regular raids and busts, Vancouver law enforcement has typically been happy to look the other way—a dynamic I saw in action at this...
On Jan. 10, supervisors in this historic county—where Gold Rush mining camps flourished in 1850—voted to kill off the Green Rush that exploded here in 2016. By a 3–2 tally, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors declared all commercial cannabis farms illegal. The county planning...
Citing a “zero-tolerance policy,” Nevada regulators have suspended the licenses of four of the state’s nine testing labs since July. The state’s Department of Taxation, which took over regulating the industry last summer, shut down the four labs for “not following proper procedures,” the Las Vegas...
Canndescent, a major California cultivation company, has closed a $10 million Series B offering to finance the launch of new products and expand its production capacity by some eightfold. The lead investors in the raise are Floret Ventures, a San Francisco-based consultancy and investment firm, and...
Two marijuana testing facilities in Alaska are being audited by a state agency amid concerns about discrepancies in potency-testing results between the sites. The state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Health Laboratory is conducting the audits of Canntest and Steep Hill Alaska. Erika McConnell, director of the...
Ontario-based Maricann plans to acquire a hemp farm in Switzerland for 8 million Swiss francs ($8.5 million), making the Canadian medical marijuana producer the latest to seek a toehold in the lucrative European hemp market Maricann announced plans Wednesday to acquire hemp producer Haxxon AG, which...
Seattle-based Privateer Holdings, which has long been setting benchmarks for capital raises in the marijuana sector, has established a new standard – and demonstrated that at least some deep-pocketed investors have not been spooked by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The marijuana-focused private equity company announced...
A girl in Illinois just had a huge victory for her health and her education last week. Eleven-year-old Ashley Surin was kicked out of school for wearing a medical marijuana patch and using cannabis oil and lotion. In 2008, when she was just a toddler, she was...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), left, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), center, struck a bargain that will fund the government through Feb. 8. House Republicans, led by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), right, passed the measure on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Senate Democrats and Republicans came to...
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson (Elaine Thompson/AP) Washington state officials sent up a flare over the state’s legal cannabis industry this week, asking operators to speak up about problems that have arisen in the wake of US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent rescission of the...
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