Hempcon, one of America's biggest medical marijuana conventions, is being held this weekend in Los Angeles. The event comes right on the heels of Los Angeles' approval of Proposition D, which limits the number of medical marijuana collectives that can operate in the city to only 135. While the city of Los Angeles disapproves of medical marijuana collectives, they seem ...
On Friday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released a number of new regulations for the state's medical marijuana program. According to the DPH, the regulations are intended to create a "self-financed medical marijuana industry that supports patient access without relying on taxpayer resources." As a result of that goal, medical marijuana dispensaries will be...
Welcome to your weekly installment of JackDanieL’s editorial column. Be sure to check back for more from Jack each Friday. Enjoy! According to the editors at MMJBusinessDaily, and their recently published Marijuana Business Factbook, legal cannabis sales could bloom to over $6 billion by 2018. That’s six BILLION, with a b. An impressive sum, but not lost on today’s...
The New Jersey Assembly has approved a bill that would protect medical marijuana patients from being disqualified for organ transplant because they fall under hospitals' definition of a "drug user." The bill was passed on a vote of 67-9 with two abstentions. According to Assemblyman Peter J. Barnes, the bill ensures that hospitals and physicians won't "exclude people who ...