State regulators and government officials nationwide are taking steps to ramp up enforcement against cannabis companies that fail to pay vendors, taxes or business fees. New...
Federal law enforcement has assembled a grand jury to investigate a former Oregon official who moonlighted for cannabis companies while overseeing the state’s marijuana regulatory agency, The Oregonian...
Canadian holding company Chalice Brands, doing business as Chalice Farms, filed court documents asking to place five of its Oregon subsidiaries under receivership. The subsidiaries, which are...
Canadian producer Organigram Holdings is investing as much as $8 million in Portland, Oregon-based cannabis genetics and seeds company Phylos Bioscience. Under the deal, Organigram will shift to...
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced this week that cannabis retailers must pay state taxes or regulators won’t issue or renew their licenses. The directive, which will...
Two multistate cannabis testing labs that recently joined forces to establish industry standards are expanding their footprints. Michigan-based multistate lab operator ACT Laboratories acquired Florida testing company Green...
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a bill that allows legal-market marijuana to be transported across state lines to other legal MJ markets. However, the law is...
The first center will be in Eugene, Oregon. Regulators in Oregon last week announced the recipient of the state’s first license for a psilocybin service center,...
Hemp plantings in the United States were nearly cut in half in 2022, with 28,400 acres dedicated to growing the plant – slightly more than the...
Marijuana companies paid more than $1.8 billion in federal taxes in 2022 compared to non-cannabis businesses as a result of U.S. tax treatment of the MJ sector, according...