Texas, which signed its Texas Compassionate Use Act on June 1, 2015, has awarded three conditional licenses to cultivate, process and dispense low-THC cannabis to intractable epilepsy patients. Of...
California Issues Comprehensive Medical Marijuana Regulations Guest post by Aaron Herzberg of CalCann Holdings The Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (BMCR) today announced that its proposed licensing regulations for...
Nearly seven months after announcing the acquisition, Medicine Man Technologies (OTC: MDCL) will close its deal to buy Pono Publishing and Success Nutrients, with an effective date of March 1. In...
The New York State Medical Marijuana Program updated its website today and revealed that it will be registering five more organizations. The program’s initial licenses were awarded to Bloomfield...
ETF Managers Group, based in Summit, New Jersey, has filed an initial registration statement for what could be the first cannabis exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Emerging AgroSphere ETF. The...
One of the cannabis industry’s most successful entrepreneurs, Mike “BigMike” Straumietis, the founder and CEO of Advanced Nutrients, was planning a huge Super Bowl party, but, facing pressure from...
Early trading in CanniMed Therapeutics (TSX: CMED) was disappointing, as the recent IPO broke its $12 offering price and traded below the $11.28 underwriters price. In the first half-hour...
The Innovative Industrial Properties IPO, originally planned at $175mm, has been reduced to $100mm, according to the 4th amendment to the S-11 registration statement. The offering, which was originally...
Innovative Industrial Properties, which had filed to go public last month, revised its S-11 registration today. The new filing indicated that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has now approved the...
A veteran of the Health Care Real Estate Investor Trust (REIT), Alan Gold, has created what will soon be the first publicly-traded cannabis REIT, Innovative Industrial Properties. The company,...
Earlier this week, we shared our concerns about a pending proposal subject to shareholder approval that would have potentially hurt the common shareholders at Terra Tech (OTC: TRTC). This...
In an 8-K filing with the SEC this afternoon, Medicine Man Technologies (OTC: MDCL) announced that it will be acquiring Pono Publications, which publishes “Three A Light”, a step-by-step book on...
Health Canada issued a statement today and will host a call at 2PM ET: Local / toll-free (Canada/US) dial-in number(s): 613-960-7526 / 877-413-4814 Pass code: 9862308 The changes address...
Confirming reports from unnamed sources published last night, Chuck Rosenberg, the Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), issued a harshly worded 186-page rejection of a request by former Governors...
MassRoots (OTC: MSRT), the cannabis technology company with a registered user base of over 900K, filed an amended S-1 yesterday pointing to an imminent stock offering. The company, upon...
Canopy Growth (TSXV: CGC) (OTC: TWMJF) CEO Bruce Linton disposed of 400K shares of the stock at the end of June, raising approximately $1.1mm: Click here to view the...
Tilray, the Nanaimo-based licensed producer under Canada’s MMPR program, hired a Canadian Big Pharma executive, Greg Engel, in early 2015 as its first CEO. At the time, he explained why...
Health Canada continues to add licensed producers (LPs) to its federal medical cannabis program, Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR), naming United Greeneries to the approved list today. The...
Michael Toups, Managing Director, Partner and COO of First Harvest Financial was charged today by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) with fraud. Toups, who served as CFO of publicly-traded Longwei Petroleum...
Aphria (TSXV:APH) (OTC:APHQF) officially listed its stock on the OTC Pink Sheets, joining peers Aurora Cannabis (CSE:ACB) (OTC:ACBFF), OrganiGram (TSXV:OGI) (OTC:OGRMF), which trades on the OTCQB, and Supreme Pharma (CSE:SL)...
PharmaCielo, a Canadian company with operations in Colombia and a goal to become “the world’s leading supplier of naturally grown and processed, standardized medicinal-grade cannabis oil extracts and related...
The National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) announced the results of the election for the Board of Directors. The board consists of 22 members who serve two-year terms, with the election staggered....
Oakland-based Gateway Incubator launched last November, with initial funding provided by MJIC. The size of the investment was never disclosed, but it was intended to cover up to $600K of investments...
Health Canada, which oversees the Canadian medical cannabis program, MMPR, reported data for the quarter ending 12/31/15 today. The number of patients enrolled in the program grew 29.9% from...
The Auditor General of Canada presented the results of five audits to Parliament today, one of which covered Veterans Affairs Canada: Our Spring reports also provide the results of our most...
