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How To Avoid Failure In Your Cannabusiness

By Alexa Divett According to Bloomberg, “8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months.” That’s an 80 percent failure rate! Unfortunately, the Cannabis Industry is no different. For example, Oregon medical marijuana dispensaries are…

Nevada’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in Reno Area

August 3, 2015
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SPARKS — Dozens of people waiting in line cheered Friday when Nevada's first medical marijuana dispensary opened in Sparks, 15 years after voters approved medicinal pot. Silver State Relief, locate in a shopping center on a busy street corner, became the…

Las Vegas Dispensary May Take Legal Action Over Delayed Opening

Frustrated by what they call arbitrary actions by Clark County officials that have delayed their opening, the owners of a medical marijuana dispensary are considering legal action. Euphoria Wellness has been ready to open its doors since February. But due…

San Diego Accelerating Shutdown of Illegal Marijuana Dispensaries

San Diego — San Diego’s efforts to shut down illegal pot shops have become significantly more successful just as several of the city’s first wave of legal medical marijuana dispensaries are expected to open this summer and fall. Fifteen illegal…

Lack of State Inspectors May Delay Opening of Nevada Marijuana Dispensaries

Dozens of medical marijuana businesses in Las Vegas could face delays in their opening dates. The state isn’t rethinking the law that legalized the growth and sale of cannabis for patients’ use. Rather, it’s having trouble filling bureaucratic posts responsible…

New Hawaii Law Allows For 8 Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Statewide

Fifteen years after Hawaii legalized medical marijuana, the state plans to begin licensing pot dispensaries. Until now, Hawaii’s 13,000 qualified patients had to grow their own marijuana or buy it on the black market. Gov. David Ige signed the measure…

Hawaii Launches Medical Marijuana Dispensary System

A bill to establish Hawaii’s first medical marijuana dispensary system will become law at midnight Tuesday, without Gov. David Ige’s signature. The Hawaii state Department of Health has until Jan. 4 to finalize rules and regulations for the new system…

Seattle City Council Votes to Shut Down Scores of Medical Marijuana Businesses

Green cross signs will become more scarce in Seattle under a plan adopted by the City Council Monday. The city will force medical-marijuana businesses that opened Jan. 1, 2013, or later to shut down by next July as part of…

They Did it Their Way: Good Meds LLC

July 14, 2015
Rob Meagher
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They did it Their Way: Good Meds LLC Have you ever met someone who is infectiously determined and committed to her vision of living a balanced, give-back-to-others life, who has the energy of a dynamo, is outgoing, straightforward, honest and…

Appeals Court Reaffirms That Dispensaries Can’t Deduct Business Expenses

A San Francisco federal appeals court dealt a financial setback to medical marijuana dispensaries Thursday, saying that — unlike other commercial enterprises — they can’t deduct business expenses from their taxable income because their product is prohibited by federal law.…

Illinois Marijuana Businesses Worried About lack of Legal Customers

The number of people approved to use medical marijuana in Illinois remains too low to sustain the industry, business owners said. Only about 100 more patients have been cleared in the past month to access medical pot, raising the statewide…

San Diego Approves Two More Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

SAN DIEGO — Two medical marijuana dispensaries got final approval Thursday from the San Diego Planning Commission, increasing the total number of city-approved dispensaries to eight and bringing new clarity to the process going forward. It now appears San Diego…

Massachusetts First Medical Dispensary Set to Open in Salem Today

Nearly three years after Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved marijuana for medicinal use, the state’s first dispensary is poised to open Wednesday in Salem. But in striking contrast to the hoopla that has surrounded the state’s dispensary selection process, Alternative Therapies…

Delay After Delay Slows Opening of Nevada’s 1st Medical Marijuana Dispensary

A dispute over how much marijuana a home grower can sell to a dispensary is causing yet another delay in the opening of Nevada’s first legal medical marijuana shops. Clark County officials want to limit the amount any one person…

Federal Banking Rules Pose a Problem for Medical Dispensaries in Illinois

Illinois residents now are free to apply for and receive licenses for medical marijuana prescriptions, and the state already has issued about 2,500 for patients with conditions that could be eased by use of the drug. But how can they…