WHITE PINE, Mich. — A Canadian biotechnology company wants to cultivate medical marijuana in a former copper mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where it has been growing plants for more than a decade. Prairie Plant Systems Inc. of Saskatoon, which has a contract to supply medical marijuana in Canada, would need approval from state and [...]
With city leaders embracing medical marijuana, at least one company is taking pot door-to-door. Dante Jones is a medical marijuana entrepreneur. His business was inspired by his own experience after a car wreck. “It became hard to walk, hard to stand, hard to move my muscles,” he said. The pain inspired the idea for Green [...]
A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary may have violated state election and campaign finance laws by advertising free marijuana in return for registering to vote, local and state officials said Thursday. Officials from the Lansing city clerk to the state attorney general are investigating a recent posting on the Your Healthy Choice Clinic website that also [...]
HELENA – Some of the changes in Montana’s medical marijuana law that took effect Friday have created confusion among users and distributors after a judge blocked other parts of the restrictive overhaul. Helena District Judge James Reynolds on Thursday temporarily blocked portions of the law that eliminated Montana’s “caregiver” system for distributing marijuana. The law [...]
A district judge in Helena has issued a partial injunction against Montana’s new medical marijuana law . The decision prevents several parts of the new law from taking effect, but leaves a a majority of the Legislature’s new medical marijuana law intact. District Judge James Reynolds issued his ruling just before 5pm on Thursday. Among [...]
Imagine that you’re not only surrounded by marijuana all day, but you’re getting paid to work with it. Imagine a school where “higher education” isn’t just an academic phrase, it’s an accurate description. Imagine a job where “drug testing” involves making sure that employees know the difference between indica and sativa strains of cannabis. It [...]
A California-based company has opened a superstore-sized garden center in the state of Arizona catering to people who want to grow their own cannabis. The company, weGrow, is seeking to capitalize on Arizona’s newly enacted medical marijuana law, “We sell everything but the plant itself,” said Dhar Mann, founder of weGrow, which began franchising its [...]
How much money is really in the cannabis industry today? It could be more than you think. At one point, cannabis economics was simple. A lid was $10 or you could go to Mexico and pay $50 a kilo. But today, an 1/8 of an ounce can cost $50 and the demand has not subsided. [...]
Today, it is difficult to articulate the subtle boundaries of the medical marijuana laws in Montana. While some things remain clear, other details exhaust those who attempt to analyze these laws. For example, the prohibition against medical use in public parks, which conforms to the general ban on non-medical or recreational use in public parks, [...]
