MMJ Business Daily

19 Mar 2015
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San Diego’s First Legal MMJ Dispensary Opens

Nearly 20 years after California voters first approved medical marijuana, and after long years of struggling with illegal MMJ dispensaries, the first fully legal and registered dispensary has opened its doors in San Diego. A Green Alternative, owned by local David Blair, began serving customers on Wednesday. A grand opening event was planned for Friday. […]

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19 Mar 2015
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Medical Marijuana Inc Names New President, CEO

Medical Marijuana Inc. finally has a new man at the helm. Dr. Stuart Titus, Ph.D, has been named president and CEO of the publicly traded company, and will also serve as one of the board members. Titus is the first public leader of the company since former CEO Michael Llamas stepped down in 2012. He […]

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19 Mar 2015
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Three Maine Tribes Consider MJ Cultivation, Sales

Three Maine American Indian tribes are considering growing and selling marijuana on their lands, part of a growing number of tribes considering cannabis as a revenue source. The Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Micmacs tribes are considering the economic benefits of legalizing marijuana on native lands, while the state’s fourth recognized tribe, the Penobscot Nation, has said […]

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19 Mar 2015
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Washington State City-Owned Rec Shop’s Advantages Offset By Location

By Tony C. Dreibus Tourists looking for the quintessential Washington experience have a new reason to stop in North Bonneville, nestled in the hills of the Columbia River Gorge just off the Evergreen Highway. Inside an unassuming building that could be mistaken for any number of industrial businesses sits the first recreational marijuana shop in […]

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18 Mar 2015
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Senate’s MMJ Legalization Bill Gains Support

California Democrat Barbara Boxer is the latest U.S. Senator to jump on the medical marijuana legalization bandwagon. Boxer on Tuesday added her name to the list of sponsors for the bipartisan bill introduced last week by Sens. Cory Booker, D-NJ, Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, and Rand Paul, R-KY that would legalize MMJ at the federal level. […]

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18 Mar 2015
Posted by Mary Jane
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Labor Relations Board Hears Complaint Against NJ Dispensary

This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) took up its second case of a complaint filed against a medical marijuana dispensary. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which has unionized MMJ workers in six states and Washington DC so far, lodged the complaint with the NLRB after the Compassionate Care Foundation in New […]

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18 Mar 2015
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Oregon Recreational Marijuana Rules: Q&A With Liquor Control Commission Chair Rob Patridge

By John Schroyer Oregon will become the fourth state in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana possession when a measure voters approved last year goes into effect this July, but getting the actual industry up and running will take a good bit more time than that. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) is knee-deep in the […]

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17 Mar 2015
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Ancillary Economic Impact of MJ Industry Continues To Grow

The ancillary economic benefits of the marijuana industry are extending farther and farther into the general economy. The latest news of a financial boost comes to landlords who offer “marijuana-friendly” properties. A few years ago, property managers weren’t often questioned whether they would allow cannabis production or use in their rental properties. But that type […]

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17 Mar 2015
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Obama: Decriminalization, Rescheduling Progress Possible

President Barack Obama said in a recent interview that Congress may be forced to take political action on marijuana in the near future, if further reforms are passed at the state level. “We actually may be able to make some progress on the decriminalization side,” Obama told Vice News. (In the video interview, marijuana comes […]

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17 Mar 2015
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Rescheduling Marijuana: Panacea or Red Herring?

By John Schroyer A fair share of cannabis professionals have long believed in a relatively simply solution for the industry’s problems: Reschedule marijuana at the federal level. Despite some apparent recent progress on this front, other industry veterans think it’s not going to be quite that easy. Calls to remove the plant from its current […]

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