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New York Starts Accepting Applications to Open Marijuana Dispensaries

ALBANY – The state Department of Health announced Monday it is accepting applications from businesses interested in becoming registered organizations to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana in New York. The announcement comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo on July 7 signed…

Majority of Vancouver’s Marijuana Dispensaries Are Breaking City’s Proposed Rules

Sixty percent of Vancouver’s marijuana businesses violate city hall’s proposed rules that they not be located within 300 metres of each other, and more than a third are too close to a school or community centre, an analysis by The…

New Jersey Dispensary Employees Petition NLRB Over Union Organizing Efforts

The attorney for the employees of South Jersey's only medical marijuana dispensary said Monday that he would file a new petition with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that their attempt to join a union was blocked by their employer.…

Poll: Strong Support in Hawaii for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Far more Hawaii voters support establishing medical marijuana dispensaries than just over a year ago, according to a new Civil Beat poll. But voters still oppose legalization of marijuana for recreational use by about the same margin as last year.…

Oregon’s Medical Dispensaries May Sell Adult-Use Marijuana Come July 1

The Oregon Legislature is mulling a plan to let medical-marijuana dispensaries temporarily sell pot to all adults as soon as recreational weed becomes legal July 1. The idea by Sen. Ted Ferrioli (R-John Day) could solve the problem of where…

Two Oregon Dispensaries Battling Over Prime Portland Real Estate

It can be a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to the 226 medical marijuana dispensaries that the state has approved for business. Case in point? One Southwest Portland medical marijuana dispensary filed a $400,000 lawsuit this month against the owners of…

Hawaii Could Have Medical Marijuana Dispensaries by Next Year

March 26, 2015
John Hollon
Cultivation, Hawaii, Policy & Legal, Retail
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Hawaii could have medical marijuana dispensaries much sooner than initially anticipated — perhaps as soon as next year. On Wednesday, the Senate Health and Public Safety committees passed House Bill 321, the bill that would create medical marijuana dispensaries and production centers in…

San Diego’s First Legal Dispensary Finally Opens — But Quietly

OTAY MESA — San Diego’s first permitted medical marijuana dispensary opened relatively quietly Wednesday morning in an Otay Mesa strip mall near the international border. There were no long lines or anything else conspicuous, just a few customers excited they…

Legal Dispensaries Are Starting to Blossom in San Diego

SAN DIEGO — San Diego gave final approval on Thursday to what will become the city’s second and third legal medical marijuana dispensaries — one in Kearny Mesa and one in San Ysidro. Another dispensary proposed for the Midway district,…

Local Companies Landing Most Illinois Medical Marijuana Licenses

As medical marijuana gets closer to debuting across Illinois, one of the biggest pot businesses in the state has planted its roots in Oak Park. PharmaCann LLC looks poised to operate four medical marijuana-selling shops and two growing centers spread…

Licensed by Washington State, Retailer Opening Pot Business Despite County Ban

Despite a ban on pot businesses in Pierce County, Tedd Wetherbee said he plans to open a retail marijuana store called The Gallery in Parkland on Friday. The store will be “reminiscent of a SOHO gallery” and feature a “life-size…

Las Vegas Sun Publisher Gets OK to Open Dispensary Outside Las Vegas

Henderson’s first medical marijuana dispensary won unanimous approval Tuesday night from the City Council. Great Basin Care could open this summer or slightly sooner, said co-owner Brian Greenspun, who is also the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. The dispensary…

Growing Pains: Labor Strife at New Jersey’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary

January 29, 2015
John Hollon
New Jersey
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All is not well at South Jersey's only medical marijuana dispensary, a business outside Atlantic City that has experienced a wave of setbacks. The workers who nurture and sell Cherry Berry, Pineapple Chunk, and other cannabis strains at the Compassionate…

Will San Diego Turn Into a New Pot Mecca?

SAN DIEGO — With every city in San Diego County declining to allow medical marijuana dispensaries except San Diego, the city could become a sort of mecca for legal pot in the region. From Poway to Oceanside to Imperial Beach and…

Banking on Pot: Arizona’s Banks and Medical-Marijuana Dispensaries Seek an Unprosecutable Relationship

On a recent Friday afternoon, Nick Kriaris, owner of Encanto Green Cross medical-marijuana dispensary in Phoenix, and his brother, Chris, tried to open an account at Bank of America for their nonprofit business with $420 in cash. The attempt at…