MMJ Business Daily

30 Mar 2015
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Helping Marijuana Consumers Find Love

Want to meet someone with whom you can share your life, and your marijuana? There’s an app for that. In another example of the many, many ancillary business impacts of the growing legal cannabis industry, entrepreneur Todd Mitchem has developed an app called `HighThere’ that connects cannabis consumers looking for love, describing it is a […]

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30 Mar 2015
Posted by Mary Jane
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New York MMJ Program Hampered by ‘Burdensome’ Rules

A New York Assemblyman who was among the sponsors of the MMJ legalization law says the rule-making process, set to wrap up shortly, is creating an overly-restrictive dispensary system. Richard Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat who was among the law’s sponsors, said the Health Department’s program imposes “a long list of senseless burdensome restrictions on patients […]

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30 Mar 2015
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Poll: Increasing Majority of CA Voters Support Rec MJ

A study released last week backs up what many in the marijuana industry view as a foregone political conclusion: recreational marijuana is ahead in the polls in California. The Public Policy Institute of California’s survey found that 53% of state residents support legalizing rec, and 55% of likely voters back it as well. “As advocates […]

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30 Mar 2015
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Chart of the Week: 25-Month Average Wait Time From Legalization to Sales

By Becky Olson The wheels of state government can grind slowly, especially when it comes to medical marijuana implementation. In regulated states where dispensaries are open for business, it took an average of 25 months for the very first licensed dispensary to open after the state’s MMJ bill or ballot passed. However, many regulated states […]

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27 Mar 2015
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CO, WA, OR Attorneys General File Responses to Rec Lawsuit

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman filed a formal response with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday regarding a lawsuit from the attorneys general of Nebraska and Oklahoma, who are asking the nation’s high court to nullify Colorado’s recreational marijuana law. The Washington and Oregon state attorneys general also filed a joint “friend of the court” […]

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27 Mar 2015
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Dispensaries Could Open In Hawaii By Next Year

Dispensary owners could find their own piece of paradise earlier than previously expected after a state Senate committee in Hawaii passed a bill allowing dispensaries to open, along with an amendment to a previous bill that would allow them to open next year. The original bill said licenses would be issued starting in January 2017 […]

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27 Mar 2015
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Firing of Oregon’s MJ Program Head Won’t Delay Rec Rollout

Tom Burns, director of marijuana programs in Oregon, was removed from his post Thursday. According to Oregon Liquor Control Commission, the state’s timeframe for drafting rules concerning its recreational marijuana program will not be delayed as a result. Burns did not give a reason for his dismissal, according to The Oregonian. Burns oversaw implementation of […]

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27 Mar 2015
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Week in Review: Tiny Patient Pool in IL, Rec Opponents Vocal in MA + Cartels Losing Out

By John Schroyer Only a fraction of expected medical marijuana patients have signed up so far for Illinois’ MMJ program, opponents of recreational marijuana in Massachusetts are getting louder as the 2016 campaign season approaches, and Mexican cartels that used to rely on marijuana trafficking in the U.S. are taking a hit. Here’s a closer […]

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27 Mar 2015
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CO Legislature Moves To Establish Marijuana Testing References

Under a new bill in the Colorado Legislature, the state would create established testing standards for cannabis. The measure, House Bill 1283, would set up a “reference library” for labs to help ensure that methodologies and therefore testing results become more uniform across the state. Currently, testing is required for recreational marijuana but not medical. […]

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26 Mar 2015
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Willie Nelson to Open Rec Shops, Found New Brand

By next year, legendary 81-year-old performer and noted cannabis fan Willie Nelson plans to have his own recreational marijuana shops and eponymous brand of marijuana to smoke. In doing so, Nelson becomes the latest in a string of celebrities who have gotten into the cannabis industry. Nelson is working on plans to found a new […]

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