Category: Breaking News

North Jersey.com has published a list of towns adopting ordinances to halt the sale of regulated cannabis.

The blurb lies herein…..

MJ Biz Report…”Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain said he isn’t trying to stall the process. He reported GB Sciences still has to finish its operating procedures and complete its background checks with state police.”

15 August 2018: LEGISLATION: 10 Bills To Go To Legislators in CA. DELIVERIES: Cities warn of unchecked pot deliveries. RAPPERS: Cypress Hill Rapper Who Opposed California Legalization Opens A Marijuana Store. TESTING: California marijuana testing labs say product recalls unlikely to be a major concern. ZONING: Cannabis Zoning Laws: What do you need to know?

According to reports in Marijuana Moment & Ganjapreneur, this is the latest FB tactic

11 August 2018: LEGISLATION: California Compassionate Cannabis Programs Look to Tax Bill to Stay Alive. California’s Prop. 64 law pushed compassion programs into burdensome tax liability. One bill could solve the problem.ENVIRONMENT / WATER: California water regulators help target unlicensed marijuana grows. BUREAU OF CANNABIS CONTROL: Cannabis Advisory Committee will hold its next meeting on Monday, August 20 in Sacramento.. CATALINA: Up in smoke: New rules prompt re-examination of pot on Catalina. OROVILLE: Oroville council moves forward with ordinances including cannabis business permits. SACRAMENTO- CANNABIS WIRE NEWSLETTER: Sacramento City Council Unanimously Greenlights Equity Program. SONOMA COUNTY: Sonoma County endorses limits on cannabis production, curbs on neighbors’ protests.

It certainly is the silly season mid summer for cannabis stories. CBS 4 report, “Bloomington police are looking for those responsible for breaking into a business and making off with thousands of dollars in CBD oil and other products.”

Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED) (NYSE: CGC) and its wholly owned subsidiary Canopy Health Innovations Inc. has announced this morning that they been approved by the Veterinary Drug Directorate of Health Canada to research the effectiveness of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (“CBD”) to treat anxiety in pets.

The Bureau of Cannabis Control (Bureau) announced today that the second of three public hearings for our proposed non-emergency cannabis regulations will be held on Tuesday, August 14 in Los Angeles. The hearing is intended to provide the public with an opportunity to voice their opinions on the rulemaking process.

It’s taken some time.. Ganjapreneur report. Lawmakers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) — a tiny U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean, near Guam — have voted in favor of cannabis legalization, Tom Angell reports for Forbes. The bill, if signed into law, would end cannabis prohibition for adults and establish a taxed-and-regulated system for the plant; the bill also aims to legalize and establish regimes for industrial hemp and medical cannabis.

Marijuana Times reports…Adult-use recreational cannabis could be making its way to Pennsylvania, thanks to a bill that state Rep. Jake Wheatley plans to introduce. In addition, the bill would expunge records of those convicted of minor marijuana crimes, according to a recent report from Pittsburgh City Paper.

2 August 2018: BUREAU OF CANNABIS CONTROL Public hearings forproposed non-emergency cannabis regulations. CAL CANNABIS SANTA BARBARA HEARING: Not Many Turn Up For Meeting. LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles marijuana industry still in turmoil as second licensing round begins. SAN DIEGO: San Diego marijuana delivery crackdown results in 34 arrests.

“David Elias, CEO of Los Angeles-based Lowell Herb Co., confirmed to Marijuana Business Daily that his pre-roll-production business had issued a voluntary recall beginning July 27 after a testing lab reversed its initial finding that a specific batch passed muster and was cleared for retail sale.”

Tory backbencher and Brexiteer, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s, who opposes any form of cannabis regulation is, unsurprisingly, advising one of the highest-profile investors in Canada’s marijuana market via his investment firm Somerset Capital Management.

if it wasn’t bad enough already somebody has decided to add rat poison to the mix .