All the headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 3 2020 // Relm, a Bermuda-based insurer that specializes in emerging business categories, has opened its doors for business.The new business, which is led by CEO Joe Ziolkowski and Operations Vice President Keyla Roman, is owned by...
Mar 2 2020 // The smell of marijuana has driven some residents of the Southern California city of Carpinteria to sue local growers.The lawsuit filed last week contends the growers should seal their greenhouses and use...
Feb 27 2020 // The cannabis business is a frontier industry that continues to offer no shortage of unique challenges to regulators, as well as boundless questions for industry watchers and ancillary businesses like insurance.Key...
Feb 25 2020 // Newfront Insurance in San Francisco, Calif., has named Seth Word principal and head of agribusiness. At Newfront, he’ll oversee all aspects of cannabis as well as agriculture and horticulture coverage. Prior to...
Feb 24 2020 // After years of setbacks, medical marijuana advocates cleared a historic hurdle Thursday when the Kentucky House voted to legalize the use of cannabis for medical purposes.The measure won House passage on a 65-30 vote after...
Feb 21 2020 // A medical marijuana bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday in the Alabama Legislature, giving hope to advocates after years of setbacks.Audience members applauded as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-1 for the bill,...
Feb 20 2020 // Garnet Underwriting Managers (GUM), the managing general underwriter assigned to manage Garnet Casualty Insurance Corporation, has signed its first managing general agent, Conway E&S of Warrendale, Penn. This is a step...
Feb 19 2020 // After Back to the Future 2 was released in 1989, moviegoers could observe Marty McFly as he traveled to his version of 2015 where fingerprints were used to identify a person, to unlock the front door of a house and to pay...
Feb 18 2020 // A former Pennsylvania pharmacist is suing the medical marijuana dispensary where she worked on allegations she was fired after refusing to illegally sample the shop’s products.Carol Kopiak, of Wilkes-Barre, filed a...
Feb 14 2020 // After years of setbacks, medical marijuana advocates in Kentucky gained momentum Wednesday when a House committee overwhelmingly approved a bill to legalize medical cannabis.The House Judiciary Committee advanced the...
Feb 13 2020 // The startup-laden cannabis industry is probably just right for those who are willing to forego a few extra dollars on their paychecks for the possibility of a bigger payout later when the company grows or goes...
Feb 10 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is at the forefront of shaping how state insurance regulators all over the U.S. will deal with the legal cannabis market.Lara is not only the chief insurance regulator of the...
Feb 10 2020 // The NAIC’S Cannabis Insurance Working Group in a recently approved white paper identified some of the most pressing insurance needs of cannabis businesses. Insurance most frequently needed by the cannabis industry...
Feb 6 2020 // North Dakota could see a rise in workers’ compensation claims if marijuana is legalized, the state’s workplace safety agency told lawmakers on Feb. 4.Jodi Bjornson, a lawyer for North Dakota Workforce Safety...
Jan 30 2020 // An internet privacy firm says it was able to access private personal information of more than 30,000 medical marijuana patients, recreational pot customers or dispensary employees in several states.The privacy firm was...
Jan 28 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is at the forefront of shaping how state insurance regulators all over the U.S. will deal with the legal cannabis market.Lara is not only the chief insurance regulator of the...
Jan 28 2020 // Kentucky’s Department of Agriculture will continue operating its hemp program as a research pilot program for another year before transitioning to a commercial program, the agency said.Congress gave state agriculture...
Jan 27 2020 // Recreational cannabis use affects driving ability even when drivers are not intoxicated by marijuana, according to a study from a Harvard Medical School hospital.Published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal, the...
Jan 24 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara today announced a measure that enables people with cannabis-related convictions to obtain an insurance license.Lara announced the California Department of Insurance will use...
Jan 21 2020 // Cannasure Insurance Services has named Summer Jenkins a senior product development manager.Jenkins is based in Sacramento, Calif., and reports to Kieran O’Rourke, director of underwriting. Jenkins has more than 20...