Las Vegas offers drive-thrus for alcohol, gambling, weddings and peep shows, and now the tourist mecca is allowing cannabis stores to offer the service. The Las Vegas City Council voted 6-0 on Wednesday to rescind a citywide restriction on marijuana re…
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Nearly 20 Vermont towns vote to allow recreational cannabis sales
Voters in Vermont’s biggest city, Burlington, as well as the state capital, Montpelier, and at least 16 other towns approved recreational cannabis sales in their communities. At least 27 cities and towns went to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to a…
Alaska’s interim marijuana chief gets permanent appointment
Glen Klinkhart, who has served as interim director of Alaska’s Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office (AMCO) since 2019, was given the job on a permanent basis. Klinkhart’s installment as full-time AMCO chief was made official Monday by Gov. …
Washington DC weighs competing recreational cannabis bills
Washington DC lawmakers have two recreational marijuana legalization bills to consider after Mayor Muriel Bowser and City Council Chair Phil Mendelson introduced separate measures. The move is significant because after District of Columbia residents vo…
Dialing in flower cultivation is at the center of the booming marijuana business
Innovation in the cannabis industry is accelerating, with creative entrepreneurs developing emulsions, fast-acting formulas and other delivery enhancements for an ever-expanding universe of products. All this is happening while pharmaceutical chemists …
Indoor marijuana grower keeps strict schedule to maximize output, avoid bottlenecks
Perhaps the most important tool that Chris Ball, owner of Ball Family Farms in Los Angeles, has in his cultivation toolshed is database software Microsoft Excel. “Our best friend is that computer program,” said Ball, explaining that he depends on Excel…
Planning, genetics, pot size, timing and ground transfer key to successful outdoor cannabis
Outdoor cannabis cultivators have little to no room for error. “We get one shot,” said Michael Johnson, chief operating officer of Siskiyou Sungrown in Oregon. “We plant in the late spring and harvest in the fall. “It’s a little bit more complica…
Wrigley chewing gum heir to take cannabis MSO Parallel public via $1.9B deal
Chewing gum heir William “Beau” Wrigley Jr., the CEO of Atlanta-based Parallel, struck a mammoth deal with an entertainment mogul to take the cannabis multistate operator public through a transaction that values the company at $1.9 billion. Ceres Acqui…
Growing marijuana regulators group pressures Congress
The Cannabis Regulators Association, a recently formed but potentially influential marijuana industry group, welcomed an overseer of the country’s biggest MJ market into its fold while pushing Congress on six key reform demands. California’s Bureau of …
Maine recreational cannabis sales booming; new testing lab opens
A maturing recreational cannabis market in Maine is driving higher sales and lower prices – and consumers are spending more. Maine’s 15 licensed adult-use retailers conducted 33,521 transactions worth $2.47 million in sales in January alone, the …