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AZ Judge: State Should Consider Parkinson’s Patients for MMJ

The Arizona medical marijuana patient pool – one of the largest in the country – could get even bigger after a judge ruled the state improperly rejected a hearing into whether patients with Parkinson’s Disease should be added to the qualifying list of conditions for MMJ.

According to the Phoenix New Times, Dorinda Lang, an administrative law judge, ruled last month the Arizona Department of Health Services, which oversees the MMJ program, has held would-be MMJ patients to a higher standard than required by law.

The judge wrote the department should have held a hearing because the law merely stipulates

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$500k of Medical Marijuana Oil Missing in Minnesota

Minnesota authorities are probing whether one of the state’s two licensed medical marijuana producers illegally shipped $500,000 worth of MMJ oil to a sister company in New York.

The company in question, Minnesota Medical Solutions, is owned by Vireo Health, the same firm that owns one of the five MMJ business licenses in New York. Both states prohibit smokable MMJ, and allow only oils, tinctures, pills, and the like.

The investigation was kicked off after a former employee accused the Minnesota wing of Vireo of the shipment, which is illegal. That’s because it’s a Schedule I narcotic, and therefore cannot cross state

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Week in Review: IL Expanding Medical Cannabis, OR Milestone & CA MMJ Revamp

By Omar Sacirbey and John Schroyer

Illinois moves to give its medical marijuana industry a boost, Oregon marks a milestone in its adult-use cannabis industry, and California lawmakers embark on a revamp of the state’s MMJ market.

Here’s a closer look at several notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.

A Shot in the Arm

Illinois is expanding the list of approved conditions for MMJ use – and making it easier for docs to help patients get access to medical cannabis.

The Illinois House of Representatives took the first official step this week, passing a bill

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CA Bills Would Create New MMJ Grower License, Expand Regs

The California State Assembly has approved two medical marijuana-related bills, including one that would create a new type of license for MMJ “micro farmers” and another that addresses a host a of regulatory issues.

Both bills now head to the state Senate.

Assemblyman Jim Woods, the sponsor of the grower bill, said in a statement the proposed license – a specialty cottage cultivator license – would be available for farms with up to 2,500 square feet of total canopy size for outdoor cultivation, or up to 500 square feet for indoor cultivation. The bill number is AB 2516.

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Arizona Announces New MJ Dispensary Application Details

Arizona announced it will accept applications from July 18-29 for its new round of licensing for medical cannabis dispensaries, a move that will increase the number of dispensaries in the state by  roughly 30%.

The Arizona Department of Health Services will dole out a total of 31 new dispensary licenses, according to its website.

The 31 additional licenses will bring the total number of dispensaries to 130. Arizona currently has 99 licensed dispensaries. Of those currently licensed, 93 are open and serving patients.

The allocation process will be a hybrid of a lottery and merit-based system. But the department

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OR Market for Edibles, Infused Products Opens

It’s a big day today for the cannabis industry in Oregon, where medical marijuana dispensaries for the first time can now sell edibles and other THC-infused products legally to anyone 21 years of age or older.

According to Oregon’s new medical marijuana provisions, each infused product’s package can contain up to 15 milligrams of THC; but customers will not be allowed to buy more than one package at a time, The Oregonian reported.

Regulators eventually will limit the amount of THC that an individual product can have to five milligrams – half of what’s allowed in Colorado and Washington

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Possible Landmark MJ Industry Tax Trial Starts Monday

By John Schroyer

Henry Wykowskia scored a big victory for the cannabis industry last month after the Department of Justice dropped its case against one of his clients, California-based Harborside Health Center.

Now the Bay Area attorney has a new federal government target  in his sights: section 280E of the U.S. tax code.

Millions of dollars or more are at stake for individual marijuana businesses – not to mention the untold sums at stake for the industry as a whole. It’s money that’s been going to the Internal Revenue Service’s coffers.

Every plant-touching legal marijuana business in

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Ancillary Tech Firm Raises $410k for Infusion Projects

A Seattle-based startup that focuses on technology to infuse products such as sugar with THC has raised $410,000 to help fund its growth.

DeepCell Industries, which isn’t a marijuana plant-touching company but stays strictly on the tech-development side, licenses its technology to cannabis product manufacturers, according to GeekWire. The company already has trademarked tech licensed to a firm called Green Labs that pays DeepCell for its Ruby Cannabis Sugar brand, which infuses sugar with cannabinoids.

DeepCell is also developing cannabis salt and a separate cannabis sweetener, GeekWire reported, with just four employees on board.

The capital raise is

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MI Rec Marijuana Campaign Submits Signatures for Nov. Ballot

Michigan voters got a little bit closer to having the chance to decide whether or not to legalize adult-use cannabis this November, when a recreational campaign submitted roughly 100,000 more signatures than needed to qualify for the ballot.

Jeffrey Hank, chair of MILegalize, said in an email that the campaign on Wednesday turned in to the secretary of state’s office about 354,000 signatures in support of their initiative. The threshold for making the ballot is 252,523 signatures of registered voters.

But having a buffer of extra signatures is a virtual necessity. The adult-use campaign in Maine nearly didn’t

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Vancouver Filing Injunctions Against Cannabis Dispensaries

Vancouver announced it’s filing injunctions in the British Columbia Supreme Court against unlicensed medical marijuana dispensaries, initially targeting 17 of 55 unlicensed outlets in the Canadian port city.

According to broadcaster CBC, the city said the initial batch of injunctions single out dispensaries that have:

• Located near other shops with valid permits
• Been the subject of community complaint
• Responded negatively to earlier efforts to shut them down

Chief licensing inspector Andreea Toma says the city also will be seeking injunctions against the remaining 38 dispensaries.

“We’re not going to stop, we’re going to continue … to gather information that

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