DENVER — While federal law makes their entire industry illegal, many marijuana store owners, growers and retailers fear something completely different: Big Tobacco.
Responsible Ohio spokeswoman Lydia Bolander says the initiative’s limit on commercial producers is designed to facilitate regulation and insure that “those individuals are ready and willing to start production as soon as possible.”
Authorities in Los Angeles have shuttered 500 medical marijuana dispensaries since residents voted two years ago to cap the number of pot shops in the city at about 130, officials said on Thursday.
The first clinic in Alberta intended to help patients navigate around the federal rules for medical marijuana could open in Inglewood by the end of April.
Medical marijuana research is at an all-time “high” these days and more states are moving toward legalizing the drug for its potential health benefits.