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Tribe loses bid to resume hemp growing in California after DEA seizure

A federal judge has rejected an effort by an American Indian tribe to resume growing hemp in Stockton, California. The Winnemucca Shoshoni tribe had sued the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and San Joaquin County in October over the removal of 26 …

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Chart: How California’s largest cities are regulating recreational marijuana

California’s recreational marijuana program is set to launch Jan. 1, and lawmakers have laid the regulatory foundation to govern the new industry at the state level. But at the local level – where municipalities can further regulate or even outright ba…

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Montana medical marijuana business owners oppose proposed rules

Medical marijuana dispensary owners  in Montana say proposed regulatory actions would place considerable cost and time burdens on their businesses.  The stakeholders voiced opposition to proposed rules MMJ during a hearing at the state Department of Pu…

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Hemp, CBD investments accelerating in Europe

Cannabidiol investments are heating up across Europe, as entrepreneurs race to capitalize on hemp and CBD business opportunities. A Swiss cannabis business, CBD420, is marketing hemp strains that meet Europe’s limit of 0.2% THC, with products for…

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Canadian rec marijuana retail opportunities: Ontario gloom versus ‘Alberta euphoria’

Cannabis retailers face starkly different futures in Canada as West Coast entrepreneurs prepare for a retail cannabis “gold rush,” while their counterparts in Ontario dig in – or in some cases hit the road – ahead of that province’s promise…

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Ontario weighs recreational marijuana consumption in hotels

Ontario is considering following in Alberta’s footsteps by allowing hotel owners to permit recreational marijuana consumption in guest rooms, Marijuana Business Daily has learned. Such a move could create significant business opportunities around marij…

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Recreational cannabis legalization foes in Michigan prepping for 2018 campaign

Opponents of recreational marijuana legalization in Michigan have formed two resistance campaigns to a ballot measure likely to go before voters next year. The pro-marijuana campaign submitted signatures a week and a half ago to make the 2018 ballot an…

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Canada’s Maricann looks to sell medicinal cannabis in German pharmacies

Ontario-based Maricann expects to start shipping dry cannabis flower to Germany in early 2018, making it the latest Canadian company to export medical marijuana to what could soon become the world’s largest MMJ market. The company’s German subsidiary, …

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Wisconsin hemp bill signed into law, closing geographic gap

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has quietly signed a bill making Wisconsin the 35th state to allow hemp production. Walker’s signature – after the bill had passed unanimously in the state legislature – makes Wisconsin the 35th state to al…

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Week in Review: New Jersey rec MJ legalization, Indiana hemp chaos & cannabis + wine

New Jersey’s governor appoints a marijuana advocate to a key position, Indiana hemp retailers are ordered to remove CBD products from their shelves, and an Oregon judge allows a vineyard’s lawsuit against a planned cannabis grow to continue…

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