Articles Posted in California Marijuana Dispensaries

According to a recent news report from NBC Los Angeles, firefighters were called to the scene of a fire that is now believed to have started in marijuana grow house and processing lab. Authorities have said this lab was using butane to extract what is known as “honey oil” from marijuana when the fire started.…

Colorado has been seeing more green than ever since it granted approval of recreational marijuana. The Colorado Department of Revenue has reported regulated and licensed marijuana stores in the state sold nearly $1 billion worth of medical and recreational cannabis last year. Sales of recreational marijuana first started there on Jan. 1, 2014. It’s safe…

Gov. Jerry Brown signed an emergency bill that resulted from a legislative drafting error that had dozens of cities across California scrambling to enact bans on the cultivation of medical marijuana. AB21, introduced by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), is an amendment to the medical marijuana reforms the state passed in September. There was a provision…

Since medical marijuana was legalized in the State of California back in the mid 1990s, there has been a lack of statewide regulation for the most part. The state did not want to get involved, so, for that reason, people often compared the emerging industry to the gold rush of mid 1800s, where there was…

Every year, we see additional states legalizing medical marijuana. In some states and the District of Columbia, we have actually had votes for full legalization of marijuana, even for recreational purposes. This definitely seems the way things are going. However, for the most part, the states along the eastern seaboard have been more reluctant to…

There has been a huge increase in the support for medical marijuana legalization across the nation since California legalized medical marijuana 20 years ago. However, it has been in the past 10 years that we have seen such a large surge of support and more and more jurisdictions voting to legalize medical marijuana. Although, it…

According to a recent news feature from the Orange County Register, cities throughout Orange County, California are “scrambling” to ban medical cannabis cultivation or distribution and delivery in their respective jurisdictions. For the most part, these were already places that did not permit medical marijuana dispensaries or grow operations, but now that the state has…

The medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles and Orange County is still growing at an astounding rate. With there being some room for improvement in developing new ways for patients in need to have easier access to their medicine, and a lot more money to made, it should not be surprising that there is such…

A lot of people get excited about the prospect of entering the medical cannabis business in Los Angeles but do not take the time to make sure they are following all regulations and laws prior to investing any money into their new business. While many people act like California is essentially the Wild West when…

A federal judge issued a landmark ruling recently, which was the first ruling to provide individual dispensaries with protections put in place under the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment passed as part of last year’s government spending bill. The Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment prohibits the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prevent states from implementing their own medical…