Caregivers’ ability to grow hundreds of marijuana plants – which some claim is supplying the black market in Colorado and outside the state – is about to be uprooted.
A handful of recreational marijuana legalization drives has the medical pot industry bracing for something it never expected to deal with: competition.
SACO, Maine — Officials in Saco are considering a proposal that would amend zoning ordinances to prohibit medical marijuana caregivers from growing the drug inside their homes. City Administrator Kevin Sutherland tells The Portland Press Herald that city council enacted a moratorium on medical marijuana facilities to determine where such…
Denver marijuana business Caregivers For Life is facing its second recall in four months over concerns its products are tainted with pesticides not approved for use on cannabis.
Denver marijuana business Caregivers for Life is voluntarily recalling 2,299 individual one-gram syringes of cannabis concentrates that contain potentially unsafe pesticides, according to Denver’s Department of Environmental Health.
Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law 2015 Colorado medical marijuana legislation that addresses caregiver plant counts, lab testing and MMJ use in schools.
There’s good news and bad news for Colorado’s medical marijuana caregivers in a bill that got initial approval from the state Senate on Tuesday. The bad news, at least for caregivers, is they would have to register with the state, so authorities can keep closer tabs on how much each caregiver can legally grow, as well as provide record-keeping that respects patient privacy.
A state Senate committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that would require medical marijuana caregivers to register and allows state agencies to share enough information to ensure pot grown for medicine isn’t sold illegally.
It can’t be often that a chamber of commerce calls for more regulations, but that happened Tuesday when the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce threw its weight behind legislation to clamp down on caregivers growing medical marijuana.
Lawmakers concerned about what they call a marijuana black market operating under Colorado’s medical-pot system will consider legislation next year that would limit plant grows and place more oversight on caregivers.
A licensed marijuana caregiver has been convicted of letting others make hash oil through a dangerous process that caused an explosion at her home.
Colorado medical marijuana growers would face new restrictions, including how many plants they can cultivate for patients, under a proposal advanced Wednesday by a legislative panel.
The Colorado Board of Health on Tuesday rejected a proposal to cap the number of patients that medical-marijuana caregivers can serve. But questions remain for some families after state health officials told parents that how they have been obtaining the oil they use to treat their children is against the law.
Confronted with a room full of teary parents with sick children, Colorado health authorities on Tuesday changed course on a plan to limit marijuana caregivers to 10 patients.
A week before Colorado’s health department considers new limits on medical marijuana growers, a panel of lawmakers and regulators debated Monday whether the numbers of plants those growers can raise should be curbed too.
Dozens of families who moved to Colorado to treat their severely disabled children with a special kind of marijuana could lose access to the treatment under new rules proposed by the state health department.
Colorado health officials on Friday announced a new crackdown on medical-marijuana patients whose doctors have given them permission to grow more than the standard number of marijuana plants.
Colorado’s Health Department is holding a marijuana town hall Friday, March 28 to gauge opinions on closing a legal loophole for medical marijuana caregivers.
The state Health Department has announced a town hall meeting to explore new limits on people who are designated to grow marijuana on behalf of medical marijuana patients.
A legal loophole in Colorado’s marijuana law that allows people to grow hundreds of pot plants without going through background checks or paying taxes is likely staying—for now, legislators were told Tuesday.
Recreational marijuana shops have opened smoothly in Colorado. Now state lawmakers want to close a loophole allowing some to grow and sell large amounts of pot without permits and licenses.
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The Colorado House overwhelmingly passed an amendment that would allow school officials to administer medical marijuana to students.
Currently, the law allows the sale of medical marijuana in oils, pills, gels and liquids, but prevents dispensaries from selling marijuana that is designed to be smoked.
North Dakota’s Great Depression-era law banning corporate farming won’t preclude horticulture operations from growing medical marijuana, provided it’s not done on agricultural land, the state’s attorney general has determined.
