Washington governor Jay Inslee signed a cannabis “omnibus bill” into law yesterday and officially added a host of new regulations to the state’s marijuana rulebook. 

According to Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger, Inslee’s signature put in motion plans to create an organic certification for the state’s cannabis crop, create a system for legal home grows and finally added language to state marijuana legislation that allows adults to share their legal weed.

The National Cannabis Industry Association has announced that former Mexican President Vicente Fox will be the keynote speaker for the 4^th annual Cannabis Business Summit & Expo. The summit, which will be held in Oakland, California this June, will host over 100 speakers over the course of three days.

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Both of Minnesota's state-licensed medical marijuana companies are deep in the red, according to annual financial statements submitted to state regulators uncovered by the Associated Press.

Minnesota Medical Solutions and LeafLine Labs both recorded losses of over a million dollars in 2016. Both companies ended 2015 in the red as well, with MinnMed ending 2016 $1.3 million in the red after losing more than $3 million in 2015.

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spearheads recreational legalization across Canada, the northern nation's cannabis producers are setting their sights far beyond their own borders and towards the global market.

Currently, there are four giant companies that effectively control the medical marijuana sector in Canada: Cronos Group, Canopy Growth Corporation (which has already collaborated with Snoop Dogg), Aphria, and Tilray. There’s no doubt that each of these cannabis producers will surely direct their attention towards the impending Canadian recreational system, but they’ve also taken advantage of the budding medical marijuana market that has started to develop across the globe. 

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Maryland’s medical marijuana program could be delayed even further if the courts decide to intervene in a conflict between a cannabis company and the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.

According to a report from the Baltimore Sun, Alternative Medicine Maryland petitioned a judge on Monday in hopes of securing an emergency injection over concerns that the commission is about to issue its final licensing selections without so much as trying to diversify the market.

The company wants a court to determine whether the commission broke any laws during the initial licensing phase because regulatory officials admitted last week that they may

The Florida Department of Health ordered a local dispensary to stop selling a new whole-flower cannabis product intended for vaping, over concerns that users could easily smoke the pot instead. The state currently allows patients suffering from a number of qualifying medical conditions to use low-THC cannabis. Patients are allowed to vape the weed, but are prohibited from smoking it in any form.

Trulieve, one of the seven licensed marijuana vendors in the state, began selling the Entourage Multi Indica cup, a whole-flower product intended for vaping, via five dispensaries and home delivery last week.

The nation is slowly, but surely turning ganja green.

As of now, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Oregon are all part of the growing list of states leading the legalization campaign. But Illinois may also be getting in on the fun, and you have two Democrats (of course) to thank for paving the groundwork to make it happen.

In Illinois, Senator Heather Steans and Representative Kelly Cassidy are putting in the work to get the ball rolling by introducing a bill to legalize marijuana (Senate Bill 316 and House Bill 2353).

New Mexico's medical marijuana program has seen significant growth in the decade since its inception in 2007. Since the beginning of the year, around 8,000 New Mexico residents have registered for the program, and the total number of MMJ patients in the state now tops 40,000, an increase of 84% since March of 2016.

The total number of dispensaries in the state has also increased to 56, up from 36 last January.

Hawaii health officials could soon be forced to officially change the term “medical marijuana” to “medical cannabis,” which legislative forces believe more accurately describes the true therapeutic nature of the herb without the racial connotations.

There is a bill currently sitting on the desk of Governor David Ige that, if signed, would dictate the change of all documentation, websites or other materials pertaining to the state’s medical marijuana program to express medical cannabis instead.

The bill was introduced by Senator Mike Gabbard because, according to its language, the term marijuana “carries prejudicial implications rooted in racial stereotypes.”

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