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Dec 11 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of recreational marijuana limbo, in which adults can legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it.That combination of factors related to a...
Dec 15 2023 // From a broad view, data from the cannabis industry fails to paint an informative picture of what lies ahead for the business in 2024 or what the year holds for insurance professionals specializing in servicing the...
Nov 29 2023 // A lawsuit has been filed over what has been identified as the cannabis industry’s first asthma workplace death.The mother of a worker who died from an asthma attack at a Massachusetts cannabis processing plant in...
Aug 14 2024 // Operators of illegal marijuana grow enterprises hidden inside rural homes in Maine don’t have to worry much about prying neighbors. But their staggering electric bills may give rise to a new snitch.An electric...
Nov 30 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvErich Schutz has been a cannabis insurance specialist since around the time it first became legal, dropping into a competitive business with acumen, knowledge and passion. He even adopted a...
May 15 2024 // Austin hemp entrepreneur Shayda Torabi is looking at a year filled with uncertainty.For the six years they’ve been in business, Torabi and her two sisters have operated Restart, their hemp dispensary, in a modest...
Nov 1 2024 // Jack Stinnett got life-changing news in 2020 when he learned the lump that appeared on the side of his neck was tongue and mouth cancer. He and his wife Karen quickly enrolled him at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,...
Jan 9 2024 // New Mexico marijuana regulators revoked the licenses of two growing operations in a rural county for numerous violations and have levied a $1 million fine against each business.One of the businesses, Native American...
Jul 29 2024 // A Berkshire Hathaway insurer is insisting it does not owe $1.3 million in claimed business income losses to a cannabis growing company after a building fire shuttered one of its “flowering” rooms for 68...
Jun 3 2024 // A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of...
Jul 23 2024 // A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using...
Jul 10 2024 // Keri-Jon Wilson started as a hobbyist, making medical marijuana edibles on a small scale for patients suffering from chronic pain and cancer. But in 2015 she expanded her business, Portland-based Pot + Pan Manufacturing,...
Aug 1 2024 // International treaties preempt state-based legal actions, giving an air transport company an escape from claims on what a hemp producer said was botched paperwork for an overseas hemp shipment, a federal appeals court...
Apr 3 2024 // Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities last Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a...
Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...
May 6 2024 // GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi city council member pleaded guilty to federal charges after running a multimillion-dollar illegal drug business, prosecutors said last week.Biloxi City Council member Robert Leon...
Apr 30 2024 // BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state’s top election official said last...
May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...
May 1 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven’t legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year.Republican state senators on...
Mar 12 2024 // Cannabis had a bit of a down year last year, but 2024 holds some hope for continued growth – maybe even a return to semblances of the old pace.As we head into the final month of the first quarter, one would think we...