Marijuana dispensaries Most states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana have allowed dispensaries to remain open.
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Most dispensaries have been denied licenses for being within 300 meters of schools, community centers, and other dispensaries.
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Medical marijuana dispensaries were even more likely than other cannabis retailers to recommend the drug to pregnant women: 83 percent of medical dispensaries did this, compared to slightly more than 60 percent of other dispensaries.
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In new markets, dispensaries are eager to use the technology, but Ellerstein said existing dispensaries don't always see the need.
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In the study, medical dispensaries were more likely to recommend cannabis products than retail dispensaries: About 83% and 60% did so, respectively.
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The Twin City Bank in Longview, Washington has been serving cannabis dispensaries and other marijuana-related business since recreational dispensaries opened there in 2014.
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Toronto police have raided dozens of dispensaries, but there seems to be little rhyme or reason to their actions, and most dispensaries keep on selling.
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They found relative decreases in misuse and deaths in states with medical marijuana dispensaries, but they didn't find decreases in states that allow medical marijuana without dispensaries.
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Many dispensaries have been forced to rely on cash for all transactions, or looked to start-ups like Kind, with its kiosks that take payments inside dispensaries.
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And unlike other states, where dispensaries can source product from independent growers, Hawaii requires dispensaries to handle the entire process themselves, from growing, to processing, to selling.
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We've got a partnership with some nearby dispensaries and Lyft, so we'll be taking visitors on a free ride to go directly from the museum [to the dispensaries].
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They found relative decreases in misuse and deaths in states with medical marijuana dispensaries, but they didn't find significant decreases in states that allow medical marijuana without dispensaries.
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With almost a thousand dispensaries on its platform, Flowhub processes $1 billion in sales annually and charges dispensaries a monthly subscription fee that starts at $499 for a single location.
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San Francisco residents began lining up in front of the dispensaries in the hours ahead of the shutdown, while dispensaries scrambled to find out whether they would be forced to close.
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To appease those anxious for legalization, the bill includes a provision that would turn any of the state's six existing medical dispensaries into recreational dispensaries six months after a bill is signed.
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This past Saturday night, I was walking by one of the dispensaries, which is sort of one of the nicer, fancy, luxury dispensaries, near The Castro, and it almost had a nightclub vibe.
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In British Columbia illegal outlets have long masqueraded as "dispensaries".
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But New York dispensaries aren't allowed to actually sell weed.
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CNBC did not purchase any products from the illegal dispensaries.
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But bud tenders working in dispensaries argue they're not clueless.
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Her firm has designed about 50 dispensaries in 16 states.
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Rules about construction operations and marijuana dispensaries vary by region.
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Liquor stores, gun stores, dispensaries selling recreational and medical marijuana.
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There are dozens of cannabis dispensaries within miles of CES.
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In the United States, marijuana dispensaries can only accept cash.
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EVAC meets in dispensaries in the Bay Area and Sacramento.
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Dispensaries were allowed to begin selling cannabis at 6 a.m.
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KS: Instead of having to go to the dispensaries, right?
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LG: You're connecting people with dispensaries or with local growers?
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I'm probably still going to try to take from dispensaries.
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Its program, which counts 7,000 certified patients and 20 dispensaries, is a far cry from those in states such as California, which has hundreds of dispensaries and more than 750,000 medical marijuana card holders.
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But it took until 2015 for lawmakers to finally heed the call for regulated dispensaries, and the state passed a law opening the door for a small number of licensed dispensaries to open up shop.
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She says shutting down the existing dispensaries is not the answer.
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Some dispensaries that use Flowhub include Dr. Greenthumb's and Green Dragon.
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I'm running on rent control, medical marijuana dispensaries, and downtown revitalization.
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Its Uber-like app connects patients with dispensaries and powers deliveries.
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"What you find are dispensaries not being enforced against," Welch said.
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Meanwhile, dispensaries are scrambling to make sense of the changing regulations.
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As a result, supplies have dwindled, costing dispensaries sales and money.
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In California, most medical marijuana dispensaries are pharmacies in name only.
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In Colorado, there are more marijuana dispensaries than McDonalds and Starbucks.
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She sold them to local dispensaries, where they were a hit.
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Some are dispensaries but others are fashion stores and book stores.
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"If dispensaries locate next to valuable property, they're taking a risk."
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Cannabis dispensaries, both online and in-store, have seen record sales.
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In Pennsylvania, medical marijuana dispensaries are OK but liquor stores aren't.
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They closed over six hundred dispensaries, including many that were raided.
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Pet supply stores, liquor stores, farms, recreational and medical marijuana dispensaries.
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But the dispensaries mostly ignored them; only $184,250 has been paid.
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They did testing on products from legal dispensaries and unlicensed dealers.
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In some cases, CanPay can help connect dispensaries with banking services.
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Unfortunately, unsafe injection practices are common at private clinics and dispensaries.
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Previously, dispensaries could buy more liberally through a medical marijuana program.
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Both Politifact and the Fresno Bee conducted surveys of California dispensaries and found that all of the contacted dispensaries kept customer profiles, even though this isn't required by Proposition 64, which legalized pot in the state.
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It's hard to know the actual count [of dispensaries], because they are always being formed, getting acquired or going out of business, but counting registered dispensaries, we work with more than 15% of them right now.
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And with the Liberals not introducing their legalization legislation until next spring, coupled with the fact that very few police forces are shutting down dispensaries, cities have been left to deal with proliferating dispensaries on their own.
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For a multitude of reasons, most significantly being the threat posed by law enforcement, dispensaries in Toronto (like the dispensaries that would open in the rest of Canada) are forced to operate under the cover of secrecy.
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VICE host Damian Abraham heads to some of Toronto's illegal dispensaries to find out if a weed soda or a chronic cookie really be considered medicinal and how edible entrepreneurs are getting their product to dispensaries' shelves.
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The mayor's office did not immediately respond to whether dispensaries selling both medical and recreational marijuana would remain open, but dispensaries around the city updated customers that they were closing once they received notice in the evening.
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"In terms of the cannabis dispensaries, the Department of Public Health today clarified that since cannabis has medical uses, dispensaries will be allowed to operate as essential businesses, just as pharmacies are allowed to do," she added.
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Rogen: I actually think the reason is that just they've been much slower to roll out the number of dispensaries or they've been much slower to change over the grey market dispensaries than they predicted they would.
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If it can be adjusted, then hopefully dispensaries can look at integrating.
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Then they pay using a mobile wallet, like Venmo, at partnering dispensaries.
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Under the draft bill, medical marijuana will not be available at dispensaries.
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New Jersey marijuana dispensaries say Facebook has unfairly banned their business pages.
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Many dispensaries must deal only in cash, keeping it in guarded vaults.
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It has received two applications for dispensaries so far, according to Vidot.
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Dispensaries themselves were also getting a full capitalist makeover at the expo.
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Green Bits develops point of sale software for pot shops and dispensaries.
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The cartridges bought at legal dispensaries did not contain vitamin-E acetate.
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No large-scale raids have been conducted on cultivation centers or dispensaries.
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Colorado voters legalized weed in 2012 , and dispensaries opened two years later.
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The department also voted to mandate that marijuana dispensaries hire a pharmacist.
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Step 3: Create a marijuana marketplace connecting dispensaries with the best growers.
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Officers seized weed at two dispensaries in Port Alberni, BC on Wednesday.
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"These dispensaries are popping up all over the country," Ms. Beldock said.
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Only seven of 176 dispensaries that applied have been granted development permits.
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In Toronto, the bohemian Kensington Market area is peppered with illegal dispensaries.
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Recently, several major cannabis dispensaries, such as Coco Farms, have cropped up.
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Vaping products make up a huge share of business for some dispensaries.
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The THSuite data breach affects multiple marijuana dispensaries across the United States.
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Curaleaf, which owned 28 dispensaries in nine U.S. states as of Sept.
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And therefore there's more dispensaries and much more weed is getting sold.
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Dispensaries in some states, including California and Nevada, still lack banking services.
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Today, the marijuana sold at legal dispensaries often contains 25 percent THC.
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You'll find everything from tattoo parlors to fortune tellers to marijuana dispensaries.
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Consider the Central Business District, where Starbucks outnumber dispensaries 4 to 1.
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And that purgatory may be fertile soil for the quasi-legal dispensaries.
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It has to compete with other pot-purchasing options like visiting retail stores in person, using dispensaries' in-house delivery services or buying via startups like Meadow that act as aggregated online points of sale for multiple dispensaries.
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Colorado passed a constitutional amendment authorizing medical marijuana in 2000, saw an explosion of medical dispensaries beginning in 85033, regulated those dispensaries in 2010, approved recreational marijuana by initiative in 2012 and opened adult-use marijuana stores in 2014.
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Its original business is a directory of nearby marijuana dispensaries that do deliveries.
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Watch: Toronto's Cannabis Candyland For a regular pot consumer, dispensaries are life changing.
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For now, it will only be available in medical marijuana dispensaries in California.
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Why would dispensaries need specialized financial facilitators, once banks could handle their accounts?
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Dispensaries then scan the barcode and the cash is deposited in their account.
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Planet 295, I realize, aspires to be the Burning Man of weed dispensaries.
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"People working in dispensaries are mostly trying to make a sale," she says.
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More NYC-area dispensaries are slated to open in the Bronx and Queens.
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Today, dispensaries are operating in a legal gray zone, and business is booming.
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The City of Vancouver charges dispensaries a $30,000 fee to get a license.
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This leads me to question why there is such a hubbub about dispensaries?
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Inside, I asked one of the budtenders about the sketchiest dispensaries she knew.
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"The unlicensed dispensaries are buying up pretty much anything and everything," he said.
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There are about 100 marijuana infused products manufacturing facilities and, like, 200 dispensaries.
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He can't sell to recreational dispensaries until the final quarter of this year.
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Before this retail pot explosion, cannabis dispensaries were forced to operate somewhat clandestinely.
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Once in Vancouver, what was even more shocking was the abundance of dispensaries.
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With the influx of dispensaries in California, quality branding speaks of new highs.
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Despite a move toward legalization, crackdowns on dispensaries and pot activists will continue.
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The first dispensaries in town still faced opposition, especially from local evangelical churches.
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Alaska will soon be the first state permitting consumption lounges attached to dispensaries.
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Illegal marijuana dispensaries outnumber legal ones more than three to one in California.
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CBD products sold outside of state-licensed marijuana dispensaries are not yet regulated.
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Managers of marijuana dispensaries said they were surprised by the surge in demand.
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Companies like SinglePoint and POSaBIT aim to provide bitcoin payment systems for dispensaries.
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None of the confirmed cases in the investigation involved products purchased from dispensaries.
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Patients can obtain the plant legally from dozens of dispensaries throughout the territory.
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Eight medical cannabis dispensaries are slated to open across the islands in July.
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It would also let patients with prescriptions buy cannabis products at licensed dispensaries.
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But county officials have rejected all 10 applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries.
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It certainly looks like it's going great at this chain of weed dispensaries.
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It also doesn't hurt that there are a ton of pot dispensaries nearby.
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Meadow's point-of-sale software for marijuana dispensaries Meadow's point-of-sale software for marijuana dispensaries The cash will help Meadow build out weed-friendly alternatives to QuickBooks and Square, and pay for marketing to smoke its big competitor Eaze .
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A shrewd publicity stunt Potcoin was originally designed as a way to give cannabis dispensaries access to banking services at a time when credit card companies wouldn't process payments for dispensaries due to the murky legal issues surrounding legalized marijuana.
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Allen is confident there will still be some weed when recreational dispensaries open, however.
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But it doesn't allow smoking pot, and it doesn't allow dispensaries to sell edibles.
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Chong's Choice chocolate bars are expected to arrive in select California dispensaries in May.
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In 13, those dispensaries generated C$50 million in revenue, according to regulatory filings.
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Zimmin grows medical marijuana outdoors near Santa Rosa that he sells to local dispensaries.
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In Los Angeles, only 215 of the city's estimated 1,700 storefront dispensaries are licensed.
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"We sold out in the two dispensaries we're in, in San Francisco," he says.
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You can get them for $20 each at Washington and California dispensaries, Mic reports.
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MedMen's dispensaries have been fondly dubbed by some as the Apple stores of weed.
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Both are officially launching today and will be available at select dispensaries throughout California.
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Police tweeted that they'd issued search warrants targeting storefront cannabis dispensaries under Project Claudia.
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Also called compassion clubs, dispensaries have long served patients with illnesses such as cancer.
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With cannabis dispensaries everywhere in LA, I no longer have a problem with weed
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It has also taken a relaxed approach to licensing sellers; marijuana dispensaries outnumber Starbucks.
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In addition, for the first time, dispensaries will be allowed to be for-profit.
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Date founded: 2015What it does: Flowhub is a retail management platform for cannabis dispensaries.
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Now, SingleSeed will allow dispensaries to accept bitcoin and consumers to pay with it.
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Colorado is a state with cannabis dispensaries as far as the eye can see.
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And over the last few months, several dispensaries and grow-ops have been raided.
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RL: No. We don't do delivery for legal reasons; the dispensaries [handle this piece].
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Months after the first dispensaries opened in Needles, they were raided by federal agents.
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Once those regulations kicked in, medical dispensaries had to reapply for a recreational license.
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"Dispensaries are expensive; you're spending around $60 to $80 for an eighth," says Natalie.
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"Dispensaries were a space that had never been touched by design," Ms. Stone said.
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The delayed notice to close marijuana dispensaries threatens a booming industry in San Francisco.
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He orders for five dispensaries and uses LeafLink for about 90% of his orders.
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My hotel room was less than a mile away from three recreational weed dispensaries.
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By that time, most of the illicit dispensaries in Toronto had shut their doors.
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The difficulty of obtaining bank accounts is not limited to cannabis dispensaries or cultivators.
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No injuries were reported connected to the state's regulated medical marijuana dispensaries, she added.
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Now, she's glad she didn't, and she said dispensaries should be prepared for anything.
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Fourth Corner Credit Union was chartered in Colorado to provide services to cannabis dispensaries.
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The state has approved 35 medical cannabis dispensaries to sell pot and other products.
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In Illinois, nearly three dozen dispensaries have been issued licenses to sell recreational marijuana.
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The commission would be in charge of approving licenses for dispensaries, among other policies.
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Davies sells directly to dispensaries, essentially relying on the rumor mill to set prices.
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So Eaze is a technology service, and compliant dispensaries use the technology to facilitate.
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So if there's a doubling of prices in the dispensaries, there will be massive outflow back to the illicit market, and dispensaries (and the growers working with them) will either go out of business or get forced back into the black market.
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"With dispensaries, like any other retail business, it's all about customer count," the investor said.
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Dispensaries are dealing with a constant influx of cash and have nowhere to put it.
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"Sessions is cracking down on dispensaries, claiming they increase crime in those areas," he said.
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And dispensaries in places where weed is legal often market it directly at pregnant women.
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Weedmaps -- a map locator for pot dispensaries -- wants some serious green from a rival potter.
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Voters legalized marijuana in Colorado back in 2012, but the dispensaries didn't open until 2014.
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"There were no legal dispensaries at that time, so they had no defense," she explained.
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Aside from California, New York requires its medical marijuana dispensaries to sign labor peace deals.
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In the meantime, numerous illegal pot dispensaries are expected to continue flourishing across the country.
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Canada's medical marijuana growers say the rise in illegal marijuana dispensaries is costing them customers.
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Eventually I will bottle that mix and then install slushy machines at local dispensaries, too.
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Toronto police began a massive citywide raid on medical marijuana dispensaries in Canada on Thursday.
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That could earn it fat referral fees or ad sales from dispensaries seeking new stoners.
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So many dispensaries resort to stashing cash in storage units, back offices and armored vans.
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Stemless is the easiest way to buy cannabis from local dispensaries you know and trust.
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Eyone: The quality of the weed that we get from the dispensaries is the best.
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It is also competing with a parallel network of eight marijuana dispensaries in the state.
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The dispensaries will serve the more than 8,400 Georgians listed on the medical marijuana registry.
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The company collects retail-sales data and provides market intelligence to dispensaries across the country.
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"We would be shut down if we tried to sell to dispensaries," Ms. Rivet said.
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They referenced statistics suggesting crime has decreased in states and neighborhoods with licensed cannabis dispensaries.
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Well, I would like it to be done through private enterprise and state-run dispensaries.
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Regulation is a multi-faceted process which involves setting standards for cultivators, dispensaries, and consumers.
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Legalizing weed also makes it easier for police and municipalities to shut down illegal dispensaries.
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Now, after years of hurdles, the state's first dispensaries are preparing to open their doors.
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The data looks at which cannabis companies rake in the most from their active dispensaries.
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The same company might be cloning plants, harvesting crops, selling to dispensaries and making deliveries.
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In urban communities, neighborhoods will struggle against the spread of 'marijuana bodegas' disguised as dispensaries.
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Soon, she got certified to sell balms and bake mixes to dispensaries in San Diego.
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The company will branch out beyond media and into branded dispensaries under Simon&aposs direction.
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Price: Battery starts at $29.99 from G Pen, pods at market value from various dispensaries.
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"It's going to be quite the crowd," said Matt Morgan, the CEO of Reef Dispensaries.
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Large-scale dispensaries, particularly in high-volume markets like California and Colorado, face serious risks.
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Pennsylvania is expected to begin accepting applications from more growers, processors and dispensaries next month.
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His company, CLC Brand Labs, which he founded in 2016, sells marijuana to medical dispensaries.
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But many physicians still see a bridge too far between their offices and the dispensaries.
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Luckily he was able to open a new account with Salal, which caters to dispensaries.
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Dustin Eide, CanPay's CEO, said that banking relationships with dispensaries are necessary for his business.
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Many dispensaries and cannabis cultivators in Colorado have opted for the latter option, including Carpio.
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Police have raided many of those dispensaries, a fact that hasn't changed since Trudeau's election.
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The more dispensaries exist nation-wide, the more difficult they will be to shut down.
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A team of CNBC producers with hidden cameras visited 10 illegal dispensaries throughout Los Angeles, finding a variety of illegal activity from customers openly smoking pot to free weed in exchange for a positive review on an online site that lists dispensaries around the country.
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So I'll have dispensaries licensed to sell clearly labelled products, and I'll instruct the police not to touch anyone who has clearly labelled stuff from our dispensaries—so if the government wants to mess with anyone, he or she has to take us to court.
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His administration was on track to raid more medical marijuana dispensaries than the Bush administration did.
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PharmaCann has more than two dozen licenses in six states and 13 operational dispensaries thus far.
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VETCBD sells in 70 medical marijuana dispensaries in California, costing $40 for a one-month supply.
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And the growth of marijuana dispensaries is a trend that labor unions are paying attention to.
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This prevents growers, dispensaries and other cannabis companies from basic banking services like depositing their money.
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He said he was not surprised when shown a compilation of videos from the illegal dispensaries.
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Feuer recently said his office has shut down 2250 illegal dispensaries, with more criminal prosecutions underway.
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Even in 2018, it's tough to predict what impact dispensaries might have on a given community.
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By 52018, Francis and Hartfield had partnered on Weedmaps and had begun charging dispensaries for listings.
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Most provinces have recently seen numerous marijuana dispensaries spring up which bill themselves as medicinal clinics.
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"You give cuttings to all your friends and then they put it in dispensaries," he said.
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Eight of those states now allow adults to use pot recreationally, creating an increase in dispensaries.
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The standards at these dispensaries vary wildly in how they treat both their customers and employees.
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When Clarke spoke to VICE, he claimed he was never the owner of any Limelife dispensaries.
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Maybe a few less sales but I think for the most part dispensaries charge too much.
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Dispensaries across the Bay Area are courting customers with giveaways, raffles, live music and food trucks.
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New companies include cultivators, dispensaries, laboratories, law partnerships, accountants, software developers, insurers and more, she said.
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Without access to basic financial services, some weed growers and dispensaries can only operate with cash.
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Those eligible for medical use can only obtain the drug from one of six dispensaries statewide.
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Dispensaries offer coupons, loyalty points, happy hours and all the other tricks in the marketing book.
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Alongside its own strains, the superstore will feature a variety of other options from other dispensaries.
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And owners and operators of marijuana dispensaries require different training and certifications depending on state laws.
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Dispensaries and consumers are still saddled with the ultimate responsibility of making sure products are legitimate.
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Toronto had 92 illegal dispensaries the day before legalization, though 56 were shut down Wednesday afternoon.
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While many adults use cannabis purely for recreational purposes, others rely on dispensaries for prescribed medicine.
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He watched dispensaries bloom along the commercial streets leading to his high school in suburban Lakewood.
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Small businesses like dispensaries are being closed in San Francisco but left open in San Jose.
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The city reduced the required distance between two dispensaries — meaning that more applicants could be licensed.
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Dispensaries and marijuana delivery services are now also deemed as critical businesses, according to city officials.
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THSuite is used by cannabis dispensaries across the country to help ensure compliance with state laws.
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The city is currently looking into opening more medical dispensaries and streamlining its medical card process.
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In Illinois' multi-phased launch, the medical cannabis dispensaries were the first to obtain recreational licenses.
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Canndescent sells the cannabis to dispensaries for $3,000 a pound, which is on the expensive side.
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Mintz used to send those patients to dispensaries for advice on products and doses to try.
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Leafly is a social network on which users can share advice on different products and dispensaries.
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CanPay launched in 2016 and is now in nine states with about 100 dispensaries as clients.
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In the meantime, he believes Canada's underground black market will flourish while the government targets dispensaries.
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However, there are only two licensed dispensaries, both located about one to two hours outside of Boston.
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Currently, there are only three medical dispensaries open in Manhattan, a borough that has 1.6 million people.
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This was a stark shift from the first term, in which raids on dispensaries came with regularity.
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She struggled to afford cannabis, so she started volunteering at dispensaries to get the drug for free.
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A company called LivWell now has 14 dispensaries across Colorado, which legalised recreational cannabis use in 2014.
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According to the article, Kukushkin invested in legal marijuana dispensaries in California and Nevada starting in 2014.
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Date founded: 2015Funding raised: $27 millionWhat it does: Flowhub is a retail management platform for cannabis dispensaries.
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That includes people working in dispensaries, coffee shops, bakeries, patient identification centers, hydroponics stores, and growing facilities.
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Officers can also deny admission to individuals who say they plan to visit dispensaries, Railton told me.
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Although he's overseen grow operations for a number of dispensaries, this plant came from his personal collection.
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And advocates' campaigns worked: From 2001 to late 2012, 11 states legalized medical pot or allowed dispensaries.
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Without dispensaries in some of California's major cities, a lot of the pot trade will stay underground.
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In the run-up to opening day, dispensaries started frantically calling wholesalers trying to buy their supply.
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Sources have told VICE that 78 dispensaries were being raided, although that has yet to be confirmed.
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The Liberal government has not indicated whether dispensaries will even be included in their future model legalization.
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Some dispensaries — the industry's term for stores — compete for existing marijuana users on price or product strength.
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Schwind says budtenders, the people who sell weed at dispensaries, love it, but buyers are sometimes confused.
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These salespeople are responsible for visiting stores and dispensaries and forging business relationships between them and growers.
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The only real difference to other dispensaries I've visited was the lack of a metal buzz-door.
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For more information on where the sunblock dispensaries will be, check out the Park's Department's press release.
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Today, members of the alliance grow marijuana, process it and sell it at the group's successful dispensaries.
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Some merchants (such as marijuana dispensaries) don't accept credit cards, but do accept cash and debit cards.
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States impose extensive reporting requirements on dispensaries, yet a cash economy makes monitoring transactional activity more difficult.
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All of the dispensaries are expected to be up and running by the end of the month.
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Dispensaries will sell just three government-approved strains of cannabis, their potencies ranging from 5% to 14%.
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In the early days, Wolf tried selling baklava at Oregon dispensaries, which baffled the medical-stoner crowd.
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These dispensaries say they are fulfilling a need of patients to have access to their chosen medicine.
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"Dispensaries generally make more money off homegrow people than they do with their regular patients," he said.
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is particularly infamous for selling counterfeit vape pens to consumers and dispensaries.
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Eight of the 20 permitted dispensaries opened across New York last Thursday, including Columbia Care in Manhattan.
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Orange County, in Southern California, is a recreational marijuana desert, with only a handful of dispensaries allowed.
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They say their children smell marijuana on hikes, and count dispensaries on their rides home from school.
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City Hall first said marijuana dispensaries had to close, then changed its mind and labeled them essential.
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Since 1996 marijuana has been available from medical dispensaries for adults with an easily obtainable recommendation card.
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According to news reports, Ultrafarma made a $190,000 donation to São Paulo's public drug dispensaries last February.
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For example, Vancouver, a hotbed of marijuana activism, has moved to license dispensaries operating in the city.
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The proposed bank would also increase security at marijuana dispensaries, where stockpiles of cash can tempt thieves.
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A Canadian company announced last week that cannabis without the smell could be coming soon to dispensaries.
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Patients approved to use the drug and dispensaries enjoy similar protections in states with medical marijuana laws.
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So far, medical marijuana has been distributed by the growers through special dispensaries or by home delivery.
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Because I can promise you that the true drug problem is not sitting in dispensaries in Colorado.
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Another analysis reported a relative decrease in opioid overdose deaths in states that permit medical marijuana dispensaries.
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All around the world, there are pictures surfacing on social media of long lines outside of dispensaries.
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We found a couple dispensaries planning ahead for your munchies, combining food specials with deals on dank.
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Related: Toronto Cops Raid Pot Dispensaries in Massive Citywide Crackdown Mass raids of marijuana dispensaries across Toronto signals a turning point for pot activists who have been reading the tea leaves on who will be in, and who will be blocked, from Canada's highly anticipated legal weed regime.
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The industry is a cash-only business because federally-regulated banks aren't allowed to take deposits from dispensaries.
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Most other CBD products are sold exclusively at dispensaries or websites and stores specializing in marijuana-related products.
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Many dispensaries will offer on-the-job training, and budtenders are well positioned to advance in the industry.
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Dispensaries in Colorado alone sold $1.3 billion of legal cannabis in 2016, up from $996 million in 2015.
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Overall, 69 percent of the dispensaries recommended cannabis to help pregnant women relieve this nausea, the study found.
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Emery owns a string of fully recreational dispensaries that are currently operating illegally in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.
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Still, Arcview expects the bulk of sales to remain at dispensaries, followed by retail stores and then pharmacies.
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Cases are rolling out to recreational dispensaries in San Francisco, like The Barbary Coast, over the next week.
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Flowhub's future plansToday, Flowhub works with over 900 dispensaries in the United States, spread out across 12 states.
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The reception area of Columbia Care, one of New York City's first medicinal marijuana dispensaries, on Jan. 6.
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They're commonly sold at dispensaries around the country and can be purchased fully charged and ready to go.
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He entered the business of wholesale distribution for medical marijuana dispensaries after his running career fizzled in 2014.
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These 10 women will receive one-year, $100,000 contracts to represent the brand at events, conferences and dispensaries.
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Visitors from all over the world are strolling into 24-hour cannabis dispensaries on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Most dispensaries cater to high-end customers and newbies that want expensive products and tons of hand-holding.
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Instead, the company partners with seven medical marijuana dispensaries around California who actual handle and sell the pot.
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Researchers there bought samples of 30 separate cannabis strains, several for each, from dispensaries and compared them genetically.
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Eaze doesn't actually grow or deliver the pot, instead serving as a technology platform connecting dispensaries and clients.
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Meanwhile, most studies use lower doses and lower potencies of medical marijuana than what is found in dispensaries.
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And in Michigan, medical marijuana dispensaries will finally gain legal status, years after the state approved medical sales.
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In a medical state, it depends on whether they allow for home growing, whether they have dispensaries, etc.
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Toronto is currently home to more than 100 dispensaries, but Mayor John Tory recently called for a crackdown.
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Marijuana growers and dispensaries that "touch the plant" have the most to be concerned about, industry officials say.
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Reportedly, while there are more than 3,000 cannabis dispensaries nationwide, less than 36 are owned by black people.
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The author became something of an acknowledged specialist during the war years while working in hospital dispensaries (TIME).
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Liquid cannabis would also be sold in dispensaries for those wanting to consume their medicine through a vaporizer.
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Instead, it set itself up as a sort of "weed middleman" between 200 small farms and California dispensaries.
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Others who were hospitalized said they vaped cannabis they bought from licensed dispensaries where cannabis is legally sold.
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Some legal pot shops are complaining their business is suffering due to competition from illegal black market dispensaries.
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THC Design supplies 275 dispensaries and 20 delivery service platforms in Cali, so yeah ... they're in high demand.
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The Illinois law, which legalizes adult usage and allows for marijuana sales from licensed dispensaries starting on Jan.
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But they were the clearest signal yet from the city, as other states open marijuana dispensaries and Gov.
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"The City is using legalization to try and impose Prohibition," said Robert Laurie, the lawyer representing the dispensaries.
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But Dana Larsen, owner of several illegal dispensaries in Vancouver, countered that underground cannabis cultivation remained deeply entrenched.
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The Original Colorado Cannabis Tour includes visits to two dispensaries, after which onboard consumption of purchases is encouraged.
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The overwhelming demand has forced some dispensaries to temporarily shutter until product shortages end, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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Défoncé products are sold in California dispensaries only, and prices per bar range in the $20-$30 range.
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In California, select dispensaries will have the THC versions of the new product available for medical marijuana cardholders.
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Under current regulations in Illinois, only patients (those who have a medical marijuana card) can work in dispensaries.
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Cobb told CNN Business the company plans on opening several medical marijuana dispensaries in Florida in early 2019.
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This month, Michigan opened its first legal dispensaries, and Illinois is set to do the same in January.
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The startup provides retail-management software and point-of-sale services to dispensaries in states with legal cannabis.
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John Walsh can recall prosecuting one case against regulated dispensaries and none against a business serving the industry.
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Or maybe the Cherry Creek and Hampden neighborhoods, where there are at least 3 more Starbucks than dispensaries.
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"The cartels would easily undercut any legal dispensaries, if not control them through intimidation and corruption", he said.
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Like many of the hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have sprung up across Canada — or at least the ones that are honest about what they sell — The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary has been locked out by Canada's banks because marijuana dispensaries are still outlawed, even as the federal government plans legalization.
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Tokken will then keep subaccounts for each dispensary — making it unnecessary for the banks to deal directly with dispensaries.
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However, Detroit has at least three drive-thru dispensaries, though the city is not too pleased with their presence.
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However, the patchwork of municipal regulations for dispensaries and a constantly shifting market have made it a tough go.
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And if there aren't enough legal dispensaries, something tells me you'll still be able to find it somewhere.[CBC]
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Thanks to falling prices, marijuana sales in Colorado dispensaries actually fell in May 2018, compared to a year earlier.
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The marijuana industry is largely cash-based, and some dispensaries are starting to find workarounds and accept credit cards.
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Last year, the state's medical and retail dispensaries sold $1.55 billion of marijuana, according to Colorado's marijuana sales report.
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Many among the new recreational pot proprietors previously operated as medical cannabis dispensaries, under a patchwork of local regulations.
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Researchers are now working on ATM-style dispensaries that will be able to provide patients with medication even faster.
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Newleaf compiles information gathered from cultivators and dispensaries, transaction data from market participants and data from vendors and associations.
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With medicinal marijuana licenses in hand, New York dispensaries are finally gearing up to sell cannabis legally beginning Thursday.
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Authorities have been battling a surge in illegal dispensaries over the past year, particularly in Ontario and British Columbia.
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The pair are selling a variety of marijuana-infused products to Colorado dispensaries under the Floyd's of Leadville brand.
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I either had friends who always had some or, when I came of age, I just went to dispensaries.
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That sentiment was echoed by Cannabis Culture owner Jodie Emery, who recently opened two fully recreational dispensaries in Toronto.
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According to Weedmaps, San Francisco has 86 delivery services, 20 dispensaries and storefronts, and 13 doctors in the city.
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The app can help you with just about anything pot-related, from information about various strains to nearby dispensaries.
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Most weed entrepreneurs ignored the law and started medical dispensaries without licenses, but Taft didn't want to do that.
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States like Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee are about to lose millions in tax revenue to Illinois border-town dispensaries.
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The Nevada Department of Taxation reported more than 40,000 transactions among the state's 47 cannabis dispensaries since July 1.
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In 2017 in Minnesota, a cannabis production facility and chain of dispensaries struck a deal with the local UFCW.
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Authorities have been battling a rise in illegal dispensaries, particularly in British Columbia and Ontario, for over a year.
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OrganiGram's Arsenault estimates that about 30 percent of new patients in the industry every month are going to dispensaries.
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Despite the fact that dispensaries have become ubiquitous in major Canadian cities, their inner workings largely remain a mystery.
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Though William had his weed delivered by an unlicensed service, some dispensaries are allowed to deliver in San Diego.
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"I think it will be interesting to see which dispensaries make it and which products make it," she says.
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Plus, they worry that selling pot at dispensaries will make it easy for young people to access the drug.
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Dispensaries that do not obtain a license will be shut down, according to Kerry Jang, a Vancouver city councilor.
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So last June, Ms. Weber bought Emmett a cannabis-based tincture called VETCBD, which is sold at California dispensaries.
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Four years ago, the number of dispensaries had grown, but they were not yet a common sight in Toronto.
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For comparison's sake, there are around 500 recreational dispensaries in Colorado, 350 in California, and 220 in Washington State.
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The Cannabist, a digital publication that tracks the cannabis industry, has a nice map with dispensaries in your area.
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At the end of June, dispensaries started stockpiling product in preparation for weeks or even months without new deliveries.
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Technology companies like SinglePoint and POSaBIT are working to generate a payment method for dispensaries and consumers using bitcoin.
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Dispensaries selling various strains of marijuana and high-potency extracts, called budder and shatter, have opened on main streets.
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In effort to rein in illegal dispensaries, Ontario has passed tough laws allowing the police to shut them down.
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And in late May, Colorado's governor signed a bill allowing cannabis "hospitality spaces" at dispensaries and at B.Y.O.C. clubs.
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Last year, DC's Council passed a measure to give minorities preferential status for working at DC dispensaries and cultivators.
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The commission reported in a statement that many of the state's 85033 dispensaries had already run out of pot.
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In 2016, reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis found that only 1 percent of dispensaries nationwide were owned by Black people.
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Customers flooded dispensaries, which had previously served patients only with a doctor's approval under the state's medical marijuana laws.
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It expects to increase the number of dispensaries in its network to 41 by the end of the year.
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The obstacles also extend to employees of cannabis dispensaries or cultivators, with or without financial stakes in the company.
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Safe Harbor is also testing a mobile-phone app for buying marijuana in Hawaii's handful of state-licensed dispensaries.
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Columbia Care is among eight dispensaries to open their doors on Thursday, a year and a half after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation authorizing the program, known as Compassionate Care NY. Under the initiative, the state has licensed five organizations to manufacture and sell medical marijuana, with each allowed to operate four dispensaries.
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So the expansion of medical marijuana dispensaries nationwide might offer one avenue for offering the treatment to a wider audience.
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Pot dispensaries can't use standard point-of-sale or inventory software because they aren't compliant with the industry's strict regulations.
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It's been less than a week since Nevada started selling recreational marijuana and the state's dispensaries are already running out.
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With existing dispensaries and big corporations poised to corner a recreational market, Chelsea said she's part of a dying breed.
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Durkan sent similar letters to medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state a few years ago — but that won't work now.
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Keep in mind, while MedMen has been compared to Apple stores in the past, not all dispensaries are as fancy.
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People are more likely to go to dispensaries, liquor stores, fast food restaurants, pizza places, and nightlife spots on 420.
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Lum's research team surveyed 136 people over age 60 at Colorado senior centers, health clinics and cannabis dispensaries in 2017.
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After a year of planning, on January 1st it became legal for licensed dispensaries to sell marijuana for recreational use.
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At the same time, more than 22019,26.2 defendants connected to illegal dispensaries and delivery services have been prosecuted, he said.
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But plenty of other dispensaries in the state, it seemed, weren't following the rules and were still listed on Weedmaps.
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He's clarified with them that Sisley does not own a dispensary, but rather serves as a medical consultant for dispensaries.
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It's not that dispensaries think they can hide off the grid—the transition to legal recreational cannabis is still unfolding.
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Californians can now pick up their bud legally at any dispensary, but a bunch of cities haven't licensed any dispensaries.
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The state started recreational marijuana sales on July 2800 without any distributors licensed to move weed from growers to dispensaries.
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The state started recreational marijuana sales on July 1 without any distributors licensed to move weed from growers to dispensaries.
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Gray market dispensaries sell edibles, although many in Toronto have stopped following the Project Claudia raids by the Toronto police.
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Meanwhile, Merced approved limited medical-marijuana operations this month, which paves the way for dispensaries to open in the city.
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It uses armored trucks to take cash deposits directly from dispensaries to the Denver branch of the Federal Reserve Bank.
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But due to federal marijuana laws and state casino laws, dispensaries cannot be located on the famous Las Vegas Strip.
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"We provide all of the products these dispensaries need to do business, but we don't touch the plant," Lambrecht said.
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Vancouver and Victoria have licensed their dispensaries, which forces them to meet specific criteria or else risk getting shut down.
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Of 400 randomly selected dispensaries in Colorado, about seven in 10 recommended cannabis products as a treatment for morning sickness.
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Conflicting interpretations Denver, the state's capital and largest city, is home to the lion's share of Colorado's recreational marijuana dispensaries.
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Visa and MasterCard will not process transactions for marijuana dispensaries, and most banks will not open accounts for the businesses.
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Girl Scouts would also need permission from business owners and property owners before setting up booths in front of dispensaries.
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The town has no dispensaries or greenhouses, and no one has reported feeling sick or intoxicated from drinking its water.
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Psychedelics, dispensaries, and CBD pet foodLinton said he picked companies to fit a "short-, medium-, and long-term" growth cycle.
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Weed-related businesses, such as dispensaries, would be able to apply for loans and grants through the Small Business Administration.
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This may sound like a scene from a sci-fi movie, but these tools are employed in cannabis dispensaries today.
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In those days, dispensaries catered to what Wolf calls "the medical-stoner community," heavy users and people with chronic pain.
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In the post-Trudeau Toronto, bolstered in part by talk of marijuana legalization, dispensaries have moved out of the shadows.
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The fear that dispensaries are cutting into the LPs' potential market is leading the two into conflict with one another.
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Raids in British Columbia and Newfoundland Dispensaries in both BC and Newfoundland were raided over the last couple of days.
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Storefront dispensaries were zoned according to municipal and county whim and paid local taxes, but officially they never sold anything.
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This recent trip was sponsored by Potcoin, a cryptocurrency designed for marijuana dispensaries, which Rodman is now apparently advocating for.
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Depending on the outcome, Nevada dispensaries could run out of recreational weed right after selling it for the first time.
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You saw Tiger Global [lead a $17 million round ] in [the software platform for cannabis dispensaries] Green Bits last summer.
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New York already has a medical marijuana program, with roughly 20 dispensaries open and many more scheduled to open soon.
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A new office in the Oklahoma State Department of Health will enforce regulations, including licensing for dispensaries, growers, and processors.
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A handful of Vancouver weed dispensaries have confirmed they've already received $250 tickets for staying open past a Friday deadline.
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Petty also can't use drugs, even marijuana from legal dispensaries in L.A. He has another hearing scheduled for March 23.
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Dispensaries can continue to operate as essential businesses during this time, while practicing social distancing and other public health recommendations.
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A recent audit by a cannabis trade organization found approximately 2,835 unlicensed dispensaries, versus 873 licensed sellers in the state.
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Marijuana-related businesses, such as dispensaries, would be able to apply for loans and grants through the Small Business Administration.
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Four dispensaries sold 8.7 pounds of marijuana to patients and caregivers, according to numbers released by the state on Thursday.
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Dispensaries can use money paid via CanPay to write checks or make electronic payments that pay taxes and other bills.
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The state's 37 dispensaries have churned out over 271,000 sales since the start of the new year, the department said.
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Green Bits, a software platform for dispensaries and cannabis retailers that has been advocating for the bill, praised Hoyer's move.
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But even in states where cannabis is legal, there is local opposition to the presence of dispensaries in many communities.
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Seven liquor distributors have applied for licenses so far, but none have been approved to resupply the state's recreational dispensaries.
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Lloyd is hopeful this will mean black market dispensaries will now have the option to get into the legal market.
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However, she said a lot of dispensaries have shut down in light of the strict penalties that come with legalization.
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They are taking advantage of a grace period during which dispensaries can sell unregulated cannabis grown on the black market.
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Since 2009, Colorado has had a medical marijuana program, with not only for-profit dispensaries but also advertising of marijuana products.
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Last year, Facebook drew considerable criticism from the hemp-isphere after shutting down dozens of pages for legal medical marijuana dispensaries.
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If you call for dispensaries to be raided & peaceful people to be arrested for pot, you're actually pro-drug-war prohibitionists.
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If investors stop funneling money into dispensaries and other business opportunities, it could bring the legal weed industry to a standstill.
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MedMen is one of 14 licensed operators in the state, each of which can open up to 35 dispensaries across Florida.
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California Dreamin' is now delivering its first cases to recreational dispensaries in SF after selling $10,000-worth in its beta program.
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Heineken-owned Lagunitas already sells a hop-flavored, pot-infused sparkling water at California marijuana dispensaries, in partnership with Sonoma's CannaCraft.
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Most dispensaries that sell concentrates will also sell a variety of vape pens, some of which come preloaded with hash oil.
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New York opened its first medicinal cannabis dispensaries in January, joining 22 other states and Washington, D.C., with medical marijuana programs.
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And why would dispensaries or specialty retailers be needed at all, once neighborhood pharmacies and gas stations could handle the stuff?
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A team of CNBC producers carrying hidden cameras visited 240 illegal cannabis dispensaries across LA. Some allow open consumption of weed.
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According to a new report, many workers in restaurants and hospitality are jumping ship to take up jobs in weed dispensaries.
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I run dispensaries in Vancouver and do a lot of political activism work, so writing is not really my main focus.
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Only medical cannabis dispensaries, which became legal in the state in 2015, are eligible to apply for licenses for recreational sales.
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It would also prohibit dispensaries from denying their services to customers who choose not to provide their data to third parties.
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"Peaceful people are being harmed by this law enforcement," she told VICE, noting dispensaries are providing a good service to communities.
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Legal dispensaries were also associated with an average of 361,000 fewer daily doses of morphine prescriptions each year, the study found.
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In those states, retail legal prices have plunged, and dispensaries now account for about 60 to 70 percent of all sales.
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At midnight Saturday, legal pot went on sale -- making Nevada the eighth state to allow the purchase of marijuana in dispensaries.
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And why are people like myself, who are enrolled in the legal MMPR program, still forced to frequent gray market dispensaries?
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These are sales through legal dispensaries and storefronts or what Walsh called the "core of the industry," not the black market.
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Police say more than an estimated 250 illegal dispensaries are operating in the Los Angeles area, which has 187 licensed stores.
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This prompted many California dispensaries to slash prices this weekend to sell off products that won't be permitted after July 1.
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The finer dispensaries in Boulder now sell cannabis-infused candy, breath sprays, spritzers, and savory foods, from bacon to smoked salmon.
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Ashley surmises that some of what she helped grow went to California's medical dispensaries, and some to the underground recreational market.
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On the other side, dispensaries and many of the people behind them have been doing this work in cannabis for years.
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Dispensaries aren't homogeneous box stores like Target: They're small businesses, and as such have different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses.
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That in itself renders nonsensical the claims that marijuana from state-licensed dispensaries is safer than marijuana from the underground market.
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She added that some dispensaries in Canada were faced with shortages of marijuana and also couldn't handle demand for online orders.
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California and Washington state orders don't specify the difference between medical and recreational dispensaries -- only that "cannabis retailers" can remain open.
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Four stores are selling marijuana to the public — about 100 times the number of dispensaries per person over the entire state.
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Late on Tuesday, City Hall reversed an earlier decision by declaring that marijuana dispensaries were considered essential and could remain open.
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As cities and states shut down all nonessential businesses to slow the virus, they are often letting marijuana dispensaries stay open.
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Later that evening, some dispensaries sent out notices informing their customers that they would temporarily close because of the new rules.
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When a senior City Hall official told me Vancouver had more black market marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks outlets, I was skeptical.
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More than 30,000 cannabis users had sensitive personal information exposed online by a company that makes software used by weed dispensaries.
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But in six other states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington), business is booming at cannabis dispensaries and related businesses.
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The limited number of dispensaries and restrictions on aspects such as cultivation size have led to severe supply shortages, she said.
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Because dispensaries only hire candidates after they've completed the program, any unconscious bias won't creep into the hiring process, she says.
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It was an Obama-era policy that limited federal prosecutions of both individuals and dispensaries that relied upon prevailing state law.
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According to Weed Maps, the product is the top-selling pre-roll in California and is available in over 300 dispensaries.
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Out of the over 2000,285 licensed dispensaries in Colorado, James estimates that less than 20 are owned by blacks and Latinos.
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The measures come after more than a week of dwindling supplies that caused dispensaries to lose money and even get robbed.
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The release said it was looking for two new dispensaries each in the northern, central and southern parts of the state.
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And if federal regulations about the transportation of marijuana loosen, dispensaries in Boston could soon sell buds grown in California greenhouses.
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By contrast, a recent analysis of marijuana for sale in Colorado's authorized dispensaries showed an average THC content of 18.7 percent.
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Related: Toronto Cops Raid Pot Dispensaries in Massive Citywide Crackdown Since the Liberal government came to power in November with a promise to "legalize, regulate, and restrict" access to recreational pot, hundreds of dispensaries have popped up across the country, often operating anyway in a legal grey zone as various police forces turned a blind eye.
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Going forward, according to ArcView, more cannabis delivery businesses are likely to be mobile operations that partner with standing medical-use dispensaries.
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Vireo already operates two dispensaries in Queens and White Plains, but it's the first grower to be granted approval for home delivery.
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Multiple social media users accused Ettel of being a racist and dispensaries in San Francisco removed her company's products from their shelves.
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Arcview and BDS' latest expectations are that cannabis sales in dispensaries, retail stores and pharmacies will hit $44.8 billion globally by 2024.
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For now, she's building up her wholesale market in dispensaries outside of Vancouver, and she still sells to private clients in town.
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North Dakotans passed an initiative allowing the use of medical marijuana in 2016 but the state has been slow to approve dispensaries.
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The machines lease out to stores for a range of $2,495 to $3,495 monthly, depending on the suite of services dispensaries use.
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Companies like Med Men, which runs dispensaries, are positing California as a kind of post-Prohibition utopia with a Silicon Valley twist.
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In August 2018, employees for the Have a Heart dispensaries signed the first collective bargaining agreement for cannabis workers in Washington state.
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They usually set up a process by which states establish marijuana dispensaries, where patients with qualifying medical conditions can obtain the drug.
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This prevents growers, dispensaries and other cannabis companies from accessing basic banking services like taking credit card payments and depositing their money.
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Under the program, the state has licensed five organizations to manufacture and sell medical marijuana, with each allowed to operate four dispensaries.
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Eight dispensaries across the state are scheduled to open on Thursday, in locations including New York City and Albany, health officials said.
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Patients or their caretakers were required to visit the state's small handful of dispensaries to purchase cannabis products, including tinctures and capsules.
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The measure also sets up a system through which state officials will license and regulate medical marijuana businesses, from growers to dispensaries.
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Just refill the CO2 carbonator canisters when it's empty at local carbonation dispensaries, or exchange them for new ones at various retailers.
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With businesses stockpiling product, and all the media attention around the supply issues, Joy said dispensaries have also become targets for theft.
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A lot of dispensaries, they would just take your ID, at least until recently when you could still go to a dispensary.
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It currently works with 100 dispensaries and has seen $2.5 million in gross merchandise volume in its first year of operations alone.
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But as weed goes legal and dispensaries replace street dealers, High Times' site could become a Yelp for where to buy pot.
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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services will place dispensaries in the bathrooms of 800 public schools, providing access for around 300,000 students.
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On the line, Taft says, was a sales representative from Weedmaps, a website and app that lists nearby dispensaries and delivery services.
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One network, though, is different from those overlooked content dispensaries that are buried in the high-numbered channels of your cable package.
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Metz and her colleagues wrote that there are no regulations in Colorado surrounding what recommendations and advice dispensaries can give to customers.
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Bailey, originally from Colorado, had traveled to Denver on a few occasions noticing that marijuana dispensaries were becoming more of the norm.
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The company acts as a "weed middleman" between small cannabis farmers and dispensaries in an attempt to preserve the Emerald Triangle's legacy.
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" Then he complained that there are too many dispensaries and the "Vancouver police don't bother to enforce what is still Canadian law.
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The increased presence of illegal dispensaries is indicative of demand for cannabis not being met by doctors' willingness to allow people access.
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But some people believe there's another reason home growers are getting pushed out of the legalization movement: It benefits the marijuana dispensaries.
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For dispensaries in these legal markets, finding a local credit union willing to take on cannabis customers is often the only option.
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Another complication for most dispensaries is that they can't access typical merchant services, which companies need to accept credit or debit cards.
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There is no "cannabis" store identification, as there is with a flower shop or restaurant, and so most dispensaries remain cash only.
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And in Aspen, where we were staying, the dispensaries are for well-to-do folks, which is code for: They are nice.
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The company provides point-of-sale and retail-management services to cannabis dispensaries in California and other states with adult-use programs.
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Nevada, where voters also legalized it that year, was a little quicker, opening up its first dispensaries in the summer of 2017.
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Dutchie says it's now being used by 450 dispensaries across 18 states and that it's seeing $140 million in gross merchandise volume.
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It now has two dispensaries and recently approved plans for a cannabis campus that could eventually hold 43 cultivations and processing businesses.
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The Weeds chain of dispensaries led by pot mogul Don Briere closely followed by tweeting about their first ticket on Main Street.
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Once beautified, the buds are bound for California's legal dispensaries, or smuggled to illicit markets as far away as the East Coast.
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Marijuana dispensaries are being deemed as "essential businesses," as they are allowed to remain open under the state's "Safer at Home" order.
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Los Angeles has "cannabis dispensaries with a medicinal cannabis license" listed under "essential infrastructure" or "healthcare operations" that are exempt from closing.
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In the state of Nevada marijuana is legal to consume in private residences, but banned from consumption in parks, dispensaries and hotels.
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And I don't know whether we're ever going to see a group date at one of Los Angeles's premiere dispensaries anytime soon.
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Sales systems are not yet in place in Michigan and Maine, and in Massachusetts a gradual licensing of dispensaries began last November.
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It is estimated that California will take in $1 billion from marijuana sales tax once dispensaries start selling recreational marijuana in 2018.
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Cities, law enforcement and the hundreds of licensed and regulated weed dispensaries tend to view this as part of the black market.
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Dispensaries in Washington haveraked in over $1 billionin non-medical marijuana sales since the drug was legalized for recreational use in 2012.
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And Green Bits, which makes software to help cannabis dispensaries stay legal, has raised $17 million from Tiger Global Management and others.
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"We have three times as many illicit dispensaries as we do ones that are legal in the state of California," says McCarty.
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That allows Theory Wellness to see how its dispensary is doing compared to the around 600 other dispensaries that use Dutchie nationwide.
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New Jersey has five medical marijuana dispensaries that grow, cultivate, harvest and sell their product, serving a total of about 15,000 customers.
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With its break from Eaze, Caliva will turn to expand its direct-to-consumer platform through its website and network of dispensaries.
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Over the years, facial recognition technology has appeared in a growing number of places, including weed dispensaries, retails stores, and even churches.
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It also points out that the breach could result in fines for the dispensaries due to the possible violations under HIPAA regulations.
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A 6900 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research linked the establishment of state-licensed dispensaries to reductions in opioid deaths.
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The organization hosts meetings at various marijuana dispensaries, where veterans talk for an hour, then use medical marijuana and do guided meditation.
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On New Year's Day, Illinois became the 11th state to legalize marijuana, prompting long lines to start forming at dispensaries before sunrise.
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It plans to allow some existing dispensaries to apply for licenses, as Jacob plans to do for his Village Bloomery in Vancouver.
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There would be designated areas for use, mainly at marijuana dispensaries: buy the drug in one room, and use it in another.
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Several dispensaries are pulling TreatWell products — including tinctures specially formulated for cats and dogs — from their shelves, citing a video posted Friday.
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The margins in weed-dominant neighborhoods are much higher, with multiple neighborhoods clocking as many 9 more dispensaries than corporate coffee franchisees.
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Trip currently sells to California medical dispensaries through a wholesale "broker," who pays up to $1,800 per pound, depending on the quality.
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The results suggest that marijuana dispensaries need to do a better job of educating people buying their product, said the study's lead author.
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While 82 percent of the dispensaries ultimately advised women to speak to a healthcare provider, only 32 percent made this recommendation without prompting.
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But some told me that weed investors are already getting cold feet about putting money into dispensaries or other weed-related business ventures.
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Since debuting CannaCraft's plan to collect plastic waste to turn into fuel, Hunter's heard from several dispensaries who want to do the same.
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The report found that "most" of those afflicted had obtained their THC vapes "from informal sources or online," rather than through legal dispensaries.
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Eaze does not employ the drivers directly — that is left to the dispensaries — but does conduct driver background checks before passing along applicants.
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CEO Eric Eslao told Mashable he envisages the product will be available on shelves at high end grocery stores, not just medical dispensaries.
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Notably, most folks said that before dispensaries moved in, they didn't really care about which variety of weed they smoked—pot was pot.
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Each license allows for the operation of one manufacturing facility and four dispensaries, all of which have to be located in the state.
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Issue 6, which will create dispensaries and allow doctors to prescribe weed, has 52 percent support with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting.
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Dispensaries can use their own commercial business software to track inventory, but it all needs to be uploaded to something called called Metrc.
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They are currently available in medical dispensaries in Arizona, but will be rolling out to other pot-friendly states in the coming months.
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But how the weed got from growers to those dispensaries was shrouded in what can only be described as a very grey area.
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In April 2017, Oregon passed a law that prohibited dispensaries from sharing or storing information about their customers' identities or their purchase history.
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Related: Thanks, Trudeau: Toronto Is Becoming Canada's Next Weed Boom Town "Left unaddressed, the number of these dispensaries will only increase," Tory wrote.
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Some municipalities offered licenses to a few medical dispensaries, but without the support of the state, shops still got raided and owners prosecuted.
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Laws around cannabis vary greatly by state, and dispensaries operate in places where cannabis is legal for medical purposes but not for recreation.
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Dillman was granted permission by Health Canada to use medicinal cannabis but prior to legalization was getting his product from gray market dispensaries.
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But here I sat, having eaten just about the run of what's for sale at one of these dispensaries, and I was fine.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer last month told reporters there could be "greater enforcement" against dispensaries and growers that sell recreational marijuana.
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Former Toronto police chief Bill Blair, the government's point man on legalization, emphasized the current laws remain in effect, but dispensaries have multiplied.
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People frequenting dispensaries in California are probably not going to get much in the way of consistency, even if they think they are.
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The product is now used by more than 1,000 dispensaries across 12 states and processes more than $2 billion in transactions per year.
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At tax time, some dispensaries actually drive cash to tax agencies — in certain cases as far as 85033 miles away — to make payments.
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A recently published study by the RAND Corporation also found a decrease in opioid addiction and overdoses in states with medical marijuana dispensaries.
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With new businesses popping up anywhere legally possible, there are thankfully now dispensaries looking to break this mold and elevate their visual identities.
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Some of those companies, like Canopy Growth and Aurora Cannabis, are growers, while others have licenses to run dispensaries in the United States.
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In Southern California, hundreds of illegal delivery services and pot dispensaries, some of them registered as churches, serve a steady stream of customers.
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Update: after this story was published the San Francisco Department of Public Health tweeted, saying that dispensaries are "essential businesses" and are open.
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He also says the total number of dispensaries raided could be closer to 60 — the biggest operation he's ever heard of in Canada.
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J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law, permitting Illinois residents and visitors to buy the drug from licensed dispensaries, beginning on Jan. 22019.
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All told, approximately 17,600 patients — and nearly 1,000 medical professionals — have been approved for the program, whose first dispensaries opened in January 2016.
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The tax increase will also mean higher prices at dispensaries, as players along the supply chain pass on the costs to the public.
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Marijuana dispensaries opened for business in the state on December 1, marking the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in the Midwest.
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Dispensaries, for instance, must keep careful records of all customers, including name, age, ID, and relevant verification that they are a legal purchaser.
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About a week after Nevada dispensaries began selling legal marijuana, the state's government is considering emergency legislation to address a shortage of weed.
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Under Mr. Scutari's bill, the five existing dispensaries would get the first opportunity to open a recreational facility, which would mean extensive expansions.
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Notable earlier investments Business Insider has reported on include companies like Baker, which helps dispensaries optimize growth, and Headset, a cannabis-analytics company.
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Jim Patterson is the CEO of eaze, a cannabis technology that connects people to doctors and dispensaries for on-demand consultations and deliveries.
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So far, there are 13 dispensaries approved to sell medical marijuana to patients in Pennsylvania, though only nine are actively doing so. PennLive.
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Weed became legal for recreational use in Nevada on July 1 without anyone licensed to transport the drug and refill dispensaries' initial supplies.
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Major corporations like Budweiser are donating tens of thousands of cases of water, and even local medical marijuana dispensaries are holding water drives.
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The State of Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2014, joining several other states where the drug has been decriminalized in some form, but Visa and MasterCard will not process transactions for pot dispensaries and most banks will not open accounts for the businesses — leaving dispensaries dealing with a constant influx of cash, and nowhere good to put it.
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It's already common for people here to combine cannabis and coffee (I've heard it referred to as a "Colorado speedball"), either by pairing a joint with espresso, dropping a little THC butter in a cup of coffee, or picking up an infused edible or cup of coffee available at one of the seven hundred dispensaries in the state (more dispensaries than Starbucks!).
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Meadow's point of sale software lets marijuana dispensaries offer loyalty programs Meadow's point of sale software lets marijuana dispensaries offer loyalty programs Meadow's vision is that if a dispensary relies on it for everything from scanning bar codes on jars of weed in their store to securely storing patient medical data, they'll tack on its online storefront and delivery logistics for convenience sake.
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The California-based start-up Kind Financial is offering software as well as hardware, in the form of kiosks that can go inside dispensaries.
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But Mattie and others hope weed dispensaries, grow facilities and a high-scale commercial chocolate edibles company can be a shot in the arm.
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A RAND Corporation study found a link between legal cannabis dispensaries and a reduction in opiate-related deaths, which reached 103,000 in 2015. Sen.
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Today, Vita is the CEO of Columbia Care, which operates medicinal marijuana dispensaries in states including California and Massachusetts and, from Thursday, New York.
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There are more than 500 pot dispensaries operating in Colorado and the publication estimates current year revenues at pot shops will exceed $400 million.
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West Hollywood's dispensaries opened for business on January 2nd, a day later than those in areas such as the Coachella Valley and San Diego.
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This prevents growers, dispensaries and other cannabis companies from accessing basic banking services such as taking credit card payments and depositing money in accounts.
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Bilzerian is the CEO of Ignite, a producer of cannabis products that are sold in licensed dispensaries in states where its sale is legal.
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Lopsided tax incentives force firms to integrate vertically, since some labour and administrative costs can be deducted for growing operations but not from dispensaries.
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A lot of entrepreneurs in cannabis now are focusing dispensaries or grow houses, but I believe the future is the social experience of cannabis.
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Obama's DOJ, after some high-profile raids and prosecutions of state-legal dispensaries, wrote a series of memos urging federal prosecutors toward a detente.
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While the distribution issues won't affect Nevada's medical marijuana industry, Durrett speculated that "a handful" of recreational dispensaries could run out of weed entirely.
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A new (compostable!) marijuana single-serving coffee pod called Brewbudz is available in Nevada dispensaries starting today, and it works with regular Keurig machines.
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There was one store open in Toronto, a city of 27.11 million, where more than 222 illicit dispensaries were in operation prior to legalization.
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In 2014, Congress passed legislation banning federal agents from raiding dispensaries — a move that was widely seen as "ending the ban" on medical marijuana.
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Although California recently voted to legalize recreational marijuana, regulations for retail sales outside medical dispensaries may take until next year to put in place.
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Weedmaps' Grip on the High-flying California Pot MarketYou may have heard of Weedmaps, a service that helps you find dispensaries and delivery services.
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Together, Taft and Longwith started working on ballot measures that would create permits for medical marijuana dispensaries in a couple of Orange County cities.
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Now, because the government is cracking down on dispensaries in favor of the provincial stores, Dillman says he has to get his cannabis illegally.
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The workers who spoke to VICE said they found out about jobs through Craigslist, word of mouth, or just by walking past the dispensaries.
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New York state law permits non-cardholders to enter dispensaries, so while MedMen isn't anticipating overwhelming sales, the company is expecting considerable foot traffic.
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The analysis showed an approximately 20% decline in opioid overdose deaths between 40 and 2010 in states with legalized medical marijuana and functioning dispensaries.
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Marijuana legalization advocacy groups, including the Drug Policy Alliance, have also said the small number of dispensaries will restrict patient access to the drug.
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In September, the company released a plan to remove all unlicensed dispensaries from its database by requiring them to provide their state license numbers.
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If you're in California, you can buy the oil online or in select San Francisco dispensaries in two sizes: 125ml ($50) and 25ml ($16).
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Dispensaries in Oregon are stocking up for the expected influx of a million tourists in that state alone, with special spacey strains and sales.
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One thing the LPs and dispensaries agree on is that there is still a problem with access to the medical cannabis demanded by patients.
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This year, cannabis was the newcomer onto the Coachella party scene, thanks to Weedmaps, a mobile app that connects marijuana patients with local dispensaries.
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The high cost of licenses can prevent people of color from opening cannabis businesses, and communities have opposed the opening of dispensaries and farms.
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"These things take time," said Kerry Komatsubara of the Hawaii Education Association for Licensed Therapeutic Healthcare (HEALTH), a trade organization that represents medical dispensaries.
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I'm in Seattle this week, where it's also acceptable to walk around blazed out of your mind and buy fresh nugs from local dispensaries.
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The program, which saw its first dispensaries open in January, has struggled to gain broad traction in the medical community and with potential patients.
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In Vancouver, dozens of illegal marijuana dispensaries defied the new law by selling, among other things, outlawed edible cannabis and marijuana-infused face creams.
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Since marijuana is a federal controlled substance, and most banks won't touch businesses involved with the drug, dispensaries and growers are drowning in cash.
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As for whether it's harder or easier than food, we're very product and user-centric, and by that we mean consumers but also dispensaries.
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Much like the "pot-repreneurs" who set up marijuana dispensaries a decade ago, before laws were definitive, a generation is pushing ahead despite uncertainties.
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VANCOUVER — In the pot-friendly city of Vancouver, illegal marijuana dispensaries outnumber Starbucks outlets, and among the most popular is Weeds, Glass and Gifts.
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"It's becoming clear that the Liberal government is listening to licensed producers and prohibitionists who want dispensaries shut down," Emery said in an interview.
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The company, with dispensaries peppered across Chicago's suburbs, has also prepared a full selection of products, including flowers, prerolled joints, vapes, concentrates and edibles.
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During the briefing, Dr. Schuchat was asked if THC vaping products could be considered safe if purchased from dispensaries in states that license them.
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Although the district accepts medical cards from 22 other states, there are currently only five dispensaries in the city, serving over 22,286 medical patients.
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Then there are the secondary jobs – from security to construction jobs to build grow facilities and create new dispensaries that meet new local laws.
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This product differs from most other CBD products available in cannabis dispensaries in that it is a highly concentrated and purified pharmaceutical grade medicine.
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While the three samples bought from legal dispensaries tested negative for pesticides, heavy metals, and solvents, 15 additional samples were obtained through unlicensed vendors.
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If you do start your family members on vaping, make sure to avoid anything bought off the street and only buy from licensed dispensaries.
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Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan), the lead sponsor of legalization legislation, pointing out that New York state residents are already buying weed from legal dispensaries.
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Read: Democrats call for hearing on Jeff Sessions' anti-marijuana policy To enable customers to access cash, many dispensaries placed ATMs in their businesses.
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Since Colorado's first medical-marijuana dispensaries opened their doors in 2009, the Department of Justice has seesawed between tolerating and prosecuting the nascent industry.
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Start-ups are now putting together software to help banks and dispensaries monitor and record transactions — with the aim of moving transactions away from cash.
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There's a Turf War in Canada Over Where to Sell Weed Police forces across the country are inconsistent when it comes to dealing with dispensaries.
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"Whether you want to buy mary jane or ghost dog something or other, I suspect they'll sell it to you," Craker said of medical dispensaries.
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"Unqualified supervisors doling out medicines should not be practiced," he said, adding that medical dispensaries are legally required to be handled by a qualified nurse.
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The responsibility for destroying noncompliant cannabis products rests on the dispensaries, not the state—the government won't be dispatching special trucks to pick up weed.
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Even without burglaries, most dispensaries are running out of recreational weed supplies — and fast, according to Riana Durrett, executive director of the Nevada Dispensary Association.
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The bill would prohibit dispensaries from selling this information to data brokers—companies which generally use customer data for targeted advertising—without the customer's consent.
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Unfortunately, the language does not come with a provision that allows the manufacture or sale of these items in any of the projected 50 dispensaries.
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Max, 17, says he would never go buy alcohol by himself but he frequents three different dispensaries, which "don't care whether you're underaged or not".
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Both cities have imposed strict criteria for licenses, including that dispensaries should not be near schools or community centers, or very close to each other.
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Ten dispensaries in Vancouver made it to final stages of the licensing process, while hundreds more are currently in line waiting to be granted licenses.
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From setting up shop in front of cannabis dispensaries to getting the attention of Childish Gambino himself, few are more business savvy than Girl Scouts.
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Jersey towns would have the option of opting out of the program and restricting dispensaries, although they wouldn't collect any of the state's pot profits.
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And some marijuana dispensaries are paying a percentage of their profits to a website that gives them visibility, whether or not they follow the rules.
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New York joins 22 other states and the District of Columbia when it launches its medical marijuana program today, with eight dispensaries opening for business.
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Ottawa police raided six dispensaries that day, including three Green Trees, two WeeMedicals, and one CannaGreen—all believed to be run by the same owners.
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According to the New York Department of Health, there will eventually be 10 total dispensaries within New York City limits — and a handful just outside.
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His brother, who owns a security company, now has contracts with various dispensaries, and one of his friends does waste removal for a cultivation plant.
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Greenlane sells vaping products and accessories to over 6,600 independent smoke shops, regional retail stores and a number of licensed cannabis cultivators, processors and dispensaries.
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Even so, the authorities in some cities have begun to crack down, raiding scores of the illegal dispensaries and arresting dozens of owners and workers.
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DENVER — There are no marijuana dispensaries or greenhouses in the tiny railroad town of Hugo, where Theodore Roosevelt once ate breakfast with the local cowboys.
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Informational materials can be available at dispensaries, and government warnings can be issued, as federal agencies did for tobacco and alcohol use for pregnant women.
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Cannabis lab testing company CannaSafe analyzed the vapor produced by illegal cartridges filled with cannabis oil, known as carts, and cartridges sold in California dispensaries.
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This one has been making the rounds on the medical scene since California's first dispensaries started popping up in the mid to late 90's.
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I called some cannabis dispensaries in California and Colorado to find out why people are paying way above market rate for this supposedly superior weed.
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Is it still cool, now that recreational dispensaries in LA look and feel more like Apple stores than your gnarly, rasta-baked local head shop?
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But the government has not provided a government-approved avenue for patients to access ready-made edibles, a big reason why people go to dispensaries.
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In 2014, SinglePoint, a mobile app payment company, placed terminals in medical marijuana dispensaries, in which people could use debit cards to make their purchases.
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And fear that medical dispensaries will pave the way for retail pot shops is causing many municipalities, especially in Eastern states, to slam the door.
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So the big factor in reducing misuse and deaths seemed to be not just medical marijuana legalization but also access to medicinal pot through dispensaries.
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Mexican food is tricky business in this area, where, along Roosevelt Avenue, some spots exist more as Corona dispensaries for tired workers than culinary temples.
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Only around 100 dispensaries were open in California on New Year's Day but many more are expected to open in the coming weeks and months.
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Alex Traverso, a spokesman for California's Bureau of Cannabis Control, said around 100 dispensaries in the state were licensed to sell recreational cannabis on Monday.
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Marijuana dispensaries; veterinary care; businesses that provide food, shelter and social services for economically disadvantaged, unsheltered or otherwise vulnerable people; auto repair and towing services.
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But what we're seeing in dispensaries around the country is that people tend not to gravitate to the absolute cheapest possible or lowest-grade strains.
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The San Francisco Department of Health confirmed the news to the public, saying dispensaries can "operate as essential businesses" but still encourage social distancing protocols.
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"The only retail locations permitted to remain open will be banks, grocery stores, liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries, pharmacies, and gas stations," its press release said.
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Lesley Hildred of the Toronto Police said officers took the door off one of the closed dispensaries to ensure that it could not reopen quickly.
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If the weed dispensaries of the future feel more like The Wing than a college bro's basement, well, yeah, conversion might be higher than expected.
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ET. WEDNESDAY • Our Canadian friends will have high hopes as adult-use marijuana is set to go on sale in approved dispensaries throughout the country.
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Branding has been a particular point of focus for GTI, whose RISE Dispensaries are snagging licenses in highly regulated states where marijuana is medically legal.
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Six Massachusetts patients with probable cases of vaping-related lung injuries reported using regulated marijuana products from state-licensed dispensaries, according to new state data.
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Some dispensaries will need to resupply in a matter of days, and others risk having to fire new hires or go out of business altogether.
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A total of 47 dispensaries amassed as much flower and oil as they could before July 1, when recreational sales kicked off in the state.
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Now that he is off the federal payroll, he will also be able to enjoy the products peddled by the dispensaries, especially the edible marijuana products.
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In 1998, the Alaska Medical Marijuana Initiative legalized medical marijuana, but with an important catch: Dispensaries were not part of the provision, which severely limited access.
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Dispensaries can embed the menu on their own sites or let people buy through Meadow, track their delivery people in real time and message with customers.
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Now, he has 103 employees, and the company's software processes $2.5 billion in sales transactions a year for more than 1,000 U.S. retail stores and dispensaries.
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Most dispensaries don't allow customers to use their cannabis on site and make people prove they have a valid medical prescription before they can buy it.
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A recent crackdown by the city that saw some dispensaries closed has eased the pressure somewhat on casual dealers, providing Chelsea with a boost in sales.
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In the meantime, Colorado offers a tantalising glimpse of the future: there are now more cannabis dispensaries in the state than there are Starbucks coffee outlets.
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Several studies show legalizing medical marijuana dispensaries can lead to fewer opioid painkiller deaths, making medical marijuana one potential way to help fight the opioid epidemic.
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The company has raised a total of $27 million to help cannabis dispensaries manage their businesses and comply with regulations that differ from state to state.
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SpeedWeed has partnered with five dispensaries around Los Angeles, including Coast to Coast Cannabis in Canoga Park, which is where we'll start and end our day.
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Bespoke Financial wants to provide cannabis businesses with the same kind of financial services that other businesses get, but that dispensaries and growers can't yet access.
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Bespoke Financial wants to provide cannabis businesses with the same kind of financial services that other businesses get, but that dispensaries and growers can't yet access.
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Canada's most prominent pot activist couple, Marc and Jodie Emery, took a much more hostile tack, vowing to open two new dispensaries next week in Toronto.
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Super Bowl Sunday is more like Black Friday for cannabis lovers because Bay Area dispensaries are slashing prices to get tourists Mile high ... Panthers fans included.
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The four types of cannabis will be available in some California dispensaries today, before expanding to the four other US states where marijuana has been decriminalized.
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In Chelsea, Vidot—who said she supports the state marijuana program—said she was hopeful the dispensaries would bring jobs and tax revenue to the community.
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At another booth, Vangst Talent Network, the "nation's largest cannabis staffing agency," promised to match clients with jobs in grow houses, dispensaries, and everything in between.
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But the legislation promised a significant boost to the seven current license holders by allowing them to open an unlimited number of dispensaries across the state.
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"There's no reason why they would ever come after us," said Greg Lambrecht, CEO of the Phoenix-based SinglePoint, which helps marijuana dispensaries record their sales.
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So I set out to see if I could find the last bastions of LA's sketchy weed dispensaries before they disappear in a cloud of smoke.
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Several expressed concerns about the safety of dispensaries and workers frozen out from banks who are forced to conduct millions of dollars of transactions in cash.
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The two dispensaries are Cultivate Holdings in Leicester and New England Treatment Access in Northampton, located in the central and western parts of the state, respectively.
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Less than two weeks after recreational cannabis sales in the state began on July 1, dispensaries started to run out of product despite stockpiling for months.
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Currently, Chrontella is only available in dispensaries in Canada, but if you're lucky enough to get your hands on a jar, the possibilities seem pretty endless.
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In its third year since legalizing recreational marijuana, the Colorado dispensaries took in $1.3 billion in legal weed sales, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue.
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They proved so popular that by the time we came back to film a third episode specifically about dispensaries 18 months later, there were almost 200.
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Six months after the election, some estimates have the number of dispensaries in Toronto at close to 80 with more opening almost every day it seems.
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In the city of Los Angeles alone, for example, there have been several rounds of regulation that ended in an outright ban on dispensaries in 2013.
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But for the last 17 years, there have been endless roadblocks to the one thing that would make it easiest for patients to get weed: dispensaries.
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Now that the state has hit its July 1 opening date, however, dispensaries will need to replenish their supplies using a licensed distributor of recreational cannabis.
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In particular, Ms. Frederique said delivery options could ease the problems posed by the state's size and the lack of geographic diversity in the current dispensaries.
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Since the variance approval, neighboring property owners have filed an appeal, and the county executive, Steve Schuh, has pushed through legislation banning variances for marijuana dispensaries.
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Take Northampton, Massachusetts, for example, home to the state's first marijuana dispensaries—no more than an hour or two from New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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This would place medical patients in the greatest jeopardy: Dispensaries would be in immediate violation of the FDCA with sales immediately suspended and no backup resources.
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There was so much room for improvement that customers began telling her "they felt like they were shopping at the Tiffany's of dispensaries," Ms. Stone said.
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After recreational and medical dispensaries were told to halt sales this morning, the San Francisco Department of Public Health tweeted that they can remain in business.
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One of the dispensaries that Business Insider talked to hadn't heard anything from the mayor's office, while another said they were not at liberty to comment.
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San Francisco has ruled that the city's many cannabis dispensaries can continue to operate during the citywide shutdown, the city's public health department announced Tuesday evening.
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San Francisco has ruled that the city's many cannabis dispensaries can continue to operate during the citywide shutdown, the city's public health department announced Tuesday evening.
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One example, he said, was whether his company would work with fast-food chains that wanted to target those using cannabis dispensaries where it was legal.
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Maine and Massachusetts have legalized both medical and recreational cannabis, but political infighting and bureaucratic red tape has delayed the process of opening up recreational dispensaries.
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An insufficient number of dispensaries, limited products for sale initially, advertising restrictions, and high product cost, contributed to Canada not hitting anticipated goals, the report said.
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The government has been allowing dispensaries to use CanPay, a mobile payment system for medical marijuana patients run in partnership with a Colorado-based credit union.
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The training would give dispensaries a leg up for experienced hires, increasing sales and ideally reducing turnover that costs the industry as much as $438 million.
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Still, the agency said that 85033 patients, or 16 percent who reported, obtained their THC vapes from commercial sources, which were mostly medical and recreational dispensaries.
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Many retail dispensaries recommend marijuana as an effective, safe treatment for nausea that commonly accompanies pregnancy, but there is no research that shows this is safe.
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It has an investment fund, a cultivation facility, and an expanding chain of fashionable, high-tech dispensaries that look more like Apple stores than stereotypical headshops.
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Out front, MedMen has patented display cases, gizmos to see and smell pot, and a whole "look" they will share with other dispensaries – for a price.
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"A large number of professionals have been unable to access the financial system, because they are doing business with marijuana growers and dispensaries," the senators wrote.
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The Nevada Department of Taxation unanimously approved emergency measures on Thursday to expand who's allowed to move pot from growers to the dispensaries where it's sold.
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Many dispensaries around the US and Canada have moved to online only as well, according to press releases and social-media messages sent to Business Insider.
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"This has changed zero on the ground for us," said Steve DeAngelo, the executive director of Harborside, a company with dispensaries in Oakland and San Jose.
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Over the next few weeks, as Los Angeles and San Francisco begin issuing licenses and more dispensaries open, there is likely to be a novelty effect.
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There are roughly 40,000 registered Canadian marijuana patients — with the right to grow their own stash, although not all do — but no reliable count of dispensaries.
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When Lamine Zarrad was not at his job as a federal banking regulator in recent months, he was spending a lot of time at Denver's marijuana dispensaries.
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It earns around a 10 percent fee on transactions from dispensaries for delivering them customers, and now has serviced about 38 percent of zip codes in California.
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Colorado dispensaries have been flooded with new products and technologies since the state legalized in 2014, so much so that the choices can be "overwhelming," MacLean says.
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Since cannabis operates in a "grey area of the law," dispensaries don't have the same access to banking that a typical retail establishment would have, Nelson says.
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The current situation leads dispensaries to either deal all in cash or hide their business' true nature from banks, creating public-safety and legal risks, lawmakers say.
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Marijuana dispensaries, lounges, and recreational smokers all have reasons to be optimistic following the release of a government report on how legalization in Canada should be shaped.
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The first marijuana dispensaries opened their doors in Canada in October 2018 after it became just the second country in the world to fully legalize the drug.
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He is also familiar with the risks associated with the legal pot business, having faced federal raids on his medical marijuana dispensaries in 2007, 214, and 290.
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Mr Timpner says that police departments broadly respect state laws and will not routinely seize assets from legal marijuana dispensaries except for those which have cut corners.
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When California dispensaries opened for recreational sales at the beginning of this year, Mexicans were in line, waiting to transport legally purchased weed back across the border.
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In another tactic aimed at illegal dispensaries, the Los Angeles Police Department has accompanied city officials on operations in which they shut off utilities at illegal stores.
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By next summer roughly 5,000 pot dispensaries in America and Canada will accept PerksCoin payment by smartphone, says Daniel Cheine of CannaSOS, the Toronto firm behind it.
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Free LSD dispensaries are a means of spreading LSD across the globe to those who may otherwise be unable to access or afford high-quality, pure LSD.
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The agency said Colorado's marijuana taxes, including licenses and fees from dispensaries, exceeded $266.5 million in 2018 — up nearly 8 percent compared with $20193 million in 2017.
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Many previously operated strictly as medical cannabis dispensaries under a patchwork of local regulations, and will now be licensed by the state for recreational merchandise as well.
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Leafly is essentially an interest-based social network meets marketplace, where users can exchange ideas about different strains, products and dispensaries, and how to find good deals.
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The site was a success from the start, pointing local customers to medical dispensaries, but it wasn't making him much money, because he didn't charge for listings.
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Colorado, which intensely taxes marijuana legally purchased at dispensaries, has used resulting revenue to fund scholarships, help the homeless, and pay for K-12 education, for example.
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But the Sessions Justice Department may also decide to target the nation's licensed growers and dispensaries, since their regulation and documentation would make them low-hanging fruit.
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These decisions are in part why many dispensaries felt justified in opening shop—they claim to be providing products and access that aren't available through licensed producers.
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Compliance is "complex and onerous for these dispensaries because you basically have to report back on a daily basis the movement of all the product," Wadhera said.
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She said there were anecdotal reports, not yet fully investigated, of patients who said they had bought THC from licensed dispensaries in states where marijuana is legal.
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Showing proof of service, a doctor's recommendation, and a valid California ID, each gets a voucher for free weed from the group's dispensaries and a lot more.
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It is no surprise that the California State Treasurer's Office recently concluded that the state should sponsor armored car services to pick up tax revenue from dispensaries.
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The proposal would also license 60 medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, with licenses costing $150,000 for large companies, $37,500 for smaller companies and $85033,000 for retailers.
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Even though it's not quite legal yet, if you have been to Toronto or Vancouver, you know that there are dispensaries selling cannabis all over the place.
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Now, at 37, he runs a cannabis brand called The Vision Project in Oakland, California, which is sold in more than 70 dispensaries and employs fellow veterans.
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The first medical dispensaries began opening up in Toronto and Vancouver in the mid-90s as a way to provide cannabis to people with a medical need.
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But this nebulous phrasing created a problem for budtenders in the dispensaries—after all, what exactly was the concentrate or edible equivalent of an ounce of bud?
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She came to the event, put on by Supernova Women, because she's interested in the changing laws that could allow her to distribute her weed to dispensaries.
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"That reputation is being turned around," said Wil Ralston, president of SinglePoint, which is creating an app called "SingleSeed" in which consumers and dispensaries can exchange bitcoins.
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He started looking for other opportunities, and soon stumbled on some of the first legal medical marijuana dispensaries that had opened in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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What this means: Six months after Mr. Murphy signs a bill, dispensaries that sell marijuana for medical purposes would be able to start selling to recreational users.
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Owners at some of the dispensaries started asking for business advice, and the elder Mr. Cambern ended up as an industry consultant with a raft of clients.
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But for the city's marijuana dispensaries and retailers, the question of whether or not they would be forced to shut down was left unclear on Monday afternoon.
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They also gave two years of priority only to economic empowerment applicants, leaving out the local medical marijuana dispensaries that have equal priority status under state law.
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After dozens of dispensaries brazenly flouted the new rules, the city in 2016 began fining transgressors, issuing 3,353 tickets amounting to more than $3 million in fines.
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On Wednesday, people came out in droves for Illinois' first day of legal weed sales, with hundreds lining up outside dispensaries in the bitterly cold early morning.
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The company said it will stagger the rollout of products to "ensure a smoother rollout" and they&aposll start hitting shelves in Canadian dispensaries in January 2020.
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An investigation from the Los Angeles Times found that WeedMaps, the go-to reviews site for pot smokers trying out new dispensaries, was rife with phony entries.
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Several state medical cannabis programs mandate by statute that dispensaries only provide non-herbal formulations of cannabis, such as edible-infused products and e-liquid vaping extracts.
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Colorado's border-town dispensaries are boomingWhile Missouri has a medical-cannabis program, residents in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana lack access to either medical or adult-use cannabis.
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Eaze makes money by charging dispensaries a technology fee and providing advertising space, data, and menu placement to brands, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider.
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All of the drivers that deliver orders through the Eaze app are paid by the dispensaries or brands that partner with Eaze, rather than by Eaze itself.
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Under this legal patchwork, THC vape cartridges are sold at licensed marijuana dispensaries in states where it is legal, but are widely available on the black market.
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Your homemade space cakes will probably be too intense for a first-timer, but the dosed edibles sold in dispensaries all over the country are carefully regulated.
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Steph Sherer, the organization's executive director, said she had nearly deleted the program it offered to guide dispensaries about raids as the Obama administration relaxed its rules.
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After nearly two weeks of Nevada dispensaries selling recreational marijuana without a way to restock their shelves, the pot will soon start flowing around the state again.
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On Monday, the governor's office sent out a request for applications for up to six new medical dispensaries, which would essentially double the state's current marijuana infrastructure.
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Nevada has a bit of a weed state of emergency: The state's recreational pot dispensaries are already running out of product, just days after legal sales started.
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But because the government requires those dispensaries to purchase their product from a select number of licensed suppliers, many aren't ready to resupply after the initial rush.
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Meanwhile, BC and Ontario, the two provinces with the highest concentrations of gray market dispensaries, will have one and zero weed stores open on October 17, respectively.
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Under the new rules in that state, dispensaries must purchase cannabis from registered producers, who are required to track their sales and report them to the government.
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All Mongolia's 21 provincial hospitals as well as the nine district hospitals in Ulaanbaatar have at least five palliative care beds, as well as individual morphine dispensaries.
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Correct. LG: And so the dispensaries have the app, you guys have the app, but you're just telling them ... you're basically, you're directing traffic in a sense.
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Some have tried opening accounts under fake names or offering prepaid cards that can be used for purchases in dispensaries, though the legality of this is still unclear.
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However, he said he's been frustrated at the number of dispensaries that have been claiming to sell to patients when they really just want to sell recreational weed.
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Some industry participants also blamed the lack of legal dispensaries for the shortfall in revenue because of the state law that allows local communities to ban cannabis businesses.
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Wednesday marked the first day of legal cannabis sales in Canada as hundreds of people waited outside dispensaries to make their first purchases in this new marijuana economy.
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"If you think opening a bunch of dispensaries is going to reduce opioid deaths, you'll be disappointed," the study's senior author, Dr. Keith Humphreys, said in a statement.
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Appropriately for the holiday, sales were driven by food and drink consumption; dispensaries sold 58 percent more edibles and 72 percent more beverages than on an average Wednesday.
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If Facebook is categorizing medical marijuana dispensaries as "unauthorized" because marijuana sales are illegal under federal law, why wouldn't it be far more aggressive at taking pages down?
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"I don't think you take it lying down," said Norton Arbelaez, owner and general counsel of Denver-based RiverRock Cannabis, operator of a chain of dispensaries in Colorado.
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In 2010, Emily moved to California where she started to notice the beginnings of the marijuana boom, such as the first medical marijuana dispensaries and early branded edibles.
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In addition, the bureau has issued 3,915 cease-and-desist letters in 2018 and 2019 to illegal dispensaries and received 8,584 complaints from consumers, as of late June.
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Dispensaries Foster Buds and Glisan Buds, which are owned by the same parent company, are partnering with marijuana grower Farmer 12 for its "Burn One for Bernie" campaign.
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Unlike the other dispensaries, Leaves of Zazie didn't seem to have ever had a birthday policy—but maybe if enough people ask they'll be forced to adopt one?
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According to the Toronto's Vital Signs Report of 2016, released by the Toronto Foundation, the percentage of Torontonians reporting dispensaries in their neighborhood doubled between March and May.
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About a dozen other businesses experienced similar break-ins before opening day, according to the Nevada Dispensary Association, an advocacy group that represents over 800 of Nevada's dispensaries.
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Origin House's brands and 130 branded products are distributed to more than 500 dispensaries across California, where recreational cannabis is legal and a key market for U.S. operators.
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"The police crackdowns have made it more risky for buyers because at least the dispensaries didn't sell it to minors and they didn't sell other drugs," he said.
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Virga, for his part, pushed back by citing a Journal of Urban Economics report that found closing dispensaries may have increased crime in adjacent areas in Los Angeles.
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He's thinking about gathering data from Colorado, where recreational weed dispensaries have been open since 2014, to see whether the severity of colitis has changed for regular users.
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He also believes the relationship between dispensaries and law enforcement is mutually beneficial: "We're assisting them in job shifting and helping them out in many ways," he says.
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But as the government determines how the process will unfold, many cities like Vancouver, Toronto, and Saskatoon are seeing dispensaries open and operate as if they're already legal.
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Tom Adams, managing director of industry analytics for BDS Analytics, which covers the cannabis industry, said high taxes and limits on legal dispensaries have damaged the California market.
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Two years later, the entrepreneurs—Felix and Kingston—are now running Gas House, a successful legal weed company in Oakland whose products are sold in dispensaries across California.
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"It may actually be more difficult for teens to obtain marijuana as drug dealers are replaced by licensed dispensaries that require proof of age," Anderson said by email.
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Liu told VICE she always informs WeeMedical employees of the legal risks associated with working in dispensaries, but implied other managers might provide different information to new hires.
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The Vancouver-based CCEC Credit Union advertises on their website that they work with dispensaries, and general manager Ross Gentleman said they have over a dozen as clients.
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The legislation caps the number of approved dispensaries at 80, or two per each legislative district, and only 15 growers would be allowed in the legislation's first year.
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The churches are vexing local officials, who say that they're simply dispensaries in disguise, skirting the rules that govern other marijuana providers, such as requirements to pay taxes.
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All of the initiatives would legalize possessing, using, buying, and selling pot for medicinal purposes, and allow the state to license and regulate dispensaries through a new system.
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Charlie Baker announced a 4-month ban on all vaping products, including both flavored and unflavored e-cigarettes containing nicotine and vapes containing THC sold in legal dispensaries.
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More than 10,000 patients have enrolled since he took office in January, and the governor's office recently announced that it was seeking new applicants for medicinal marijuana dispensaries.
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A number of unregulated marijuana dispensaries across the country cater to people over 18, and it's easy for teens to purchase marijuana through dealers and other illegal means.
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Civic and church groups in Compton banded together to campaign door-to-door against two ballot measures that would have allowed marijuana dispensaries and other cannabis manufacturing businesses.
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It did not immediately have an answer to whether or not dispensaries would stay open when Business Insider called on Monday, but emailed a statement later that evening.
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Before the bill goes into effect at the start of 2020 and legal dispensaries are set up and running, possession of pot will remain a crime in Illinois.
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Other tribal nations, like the Squamish Tribe in Washington State and the Las Vegas Paiutes in Nevada, have been operating their own dispensaries and cannabis lounges for years.
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Although Canada legalized medical marijuana in 2001, and today patients must order marijuana by mail from producers licensed by the government, hundreds of black market dispensaries have proliferated.
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The sale of marijuana for recreational purposes became legal Wednesday in Illinois to the delight of pot fans, many of whom began lining up hours early at dispensaries.
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Last June, Vancouver city councillors voted to license marijuana dispensaries, which operate outside the current federal framework, becoming the first Canadian city to regulate retailers selling the drug.
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In Colorado, Oregon and California, passengers on tour buses are allowed to consume what they have just purchased at cannabis dispensaries, which is almost every tour's first stop.
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As far back as the 1830s, dispensaries were making distinctions between the "worthy poor" and the unworthy, based on whether the prospective patients had recommendations from their employers.
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Adriana Herrera first came up with the idea for EpicHint, a training and staffing service for cannabis dispensaries, while she was surfing off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Despite pens bought in their regulated dispensaries testing totally free of dangerous chemical cutting agents, California recommends not using any vape pens whatsoever; Massachusetts has outright banned them.
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But the crush of eager buyers strained the state's marijuana supply, leading many dispensaries in Chicago to turn away customers before the first week of sales even ended.
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"It's not a question of 'if,' but a question of 'when,'" said Daniel Yi, a spokesman at MedMen (MMNFF), a chain of marijuana dispensaries based in Los Angeles.
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Tick Segerblom (D), a longtime legalization advocate who helped shepherd marijuana regulations through the state legislature this year, will be the first customer in line at Reef Dispensaries.
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The outlet had a cannabis testing facility take a look at the contents of 18 different THC cartridges, some purchased from dispensaries and others from "black market" sources.
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The NBA Hall of Famer isn't on an official mission, but he's being sponsored on his trip by a cryptocurrency called Potcoin, which processes payments from weed dispensaries.
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Senator Ronald R. Rice, the chairman of the state's legislative black caucus and one of the most vocal opponents of legalization, fears dispensaries would be concentrated in cities.
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All of the measures would legalize possessing, using, buying, and selling pot for medicinal purposes, and allow the state to license and regulate dispensaries through a new system.
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CHICAGO — The sale of marijuana for recreational purposes became legal Wednesday in Illinois to the delight of pot fans — many who began lining up hours early at dispensaries.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Jake Rowinski, a 20-year-old University of Toronto student, buys marijuana every week from one of the many self-described "medical" dispensaries in downtown Toronto.
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So Eaze is free to patients, and we charge a fee to the dispensaries for the logistics and the … KS: Who are trying to get more business, correct?
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In a slightly more legitimate maneuver, some small companies have offered prepaid cards that can be used for purchases in dispensaries, though the legality of this is still unclear.
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Kevin Zimmin works for Natural Cannabis Company, a network of dispensaries in Northern California with a store in Santa Rosa, one of the cities hardest hit in the fires.
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During the first half of 1503, cannabis beverage sales at dispensaries in Colorado, Nevada and Washington totaled $18 million, up about 15% from the same period a year earlier.
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"Since it became legal, I get approached probably once a month by cannabis growers, dispensaries," Anita Thompson, who now owns the writer's old compound in Colorado, told the Times.
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He said an additional 100,000 jobs stand to be created post-election night, as well as thousands of new start-up companies once dispensaries begin opening in new markets.
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Eaze uses its proprietary software to help consumers with a medical marijuana license in the state buy pot from local dispensaries and then delivers those purchases to their door.
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We wrapped things up after an hour of walking in the rain with four out of six of the dispensaries willing to share their stash with the birthday girl.
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High taxes on weed encourage some pot smokers to avoid dispensaries, not to mention state law allows patients to grow 24 cannabis plants in their home in some cases.
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"The only candidate that has talked about decriminalizing marijuana on a national basis is Bernie Sanders," said Bruce Kennedy, a spokesman for Kindman cannabis products and Grass Station dispensaries.
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He could go around and shut down all these dispensaries and put tens of thousands of people out of work and decimate local economies, so it's a huge gamble.
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He noted that the sting "targeted the lowest-level employees" and pointed out that a softer approach has been used to effectively shut down unlicensed dispensaries in the area.
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For months now, the state has been collecting applications for marijuana dispensaries, labs, researcher facilities and other related businesses; 73 of them were being reviewed as of July 12.
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The illicit trade includes everything from farms in the state's rural north to unregulated dispensaries that operate in plain sight to delivery services that bring marijuana to users' doors.
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Baker CEO and co-founder Joel Milton said that today, the company works with 250 dispensaries in 10 U.S. states where pot is legal, as well as in Canada.
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Yep, somewhere between Instagram and Seamless, you can now also keep a list of dispensaries in your area and endless information about specific cannabis strains, right on your phone.
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A Canadian court decision that medical marijuana patients have the right to grow their own cannabis is seen further encouraging dispensaries, which often buy their product from such growers.
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As Canada awaits legalization in 2018, these stories demonstrate how the unregulated nature of pot dispensaries leaves young workers ripe for exploitation while their bosses rake in small fortunes.
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Nonetheless, hundreds of pot dispensaries have cropped up across the country in the last three years, allowing Canadians to simply walk into a shop and exchange cash for weed.
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Valleriani said many of the long-running compassion clubs and dispensaries have developed strong standards and practices and do pay employees' legal fees in the event of a raid.
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Federal tax and banking rules, as well as federal narcotics laws, make operating dispensaries and growing marijuana difficult and unpredictable, even in states where such businesses already are sanctioned.
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For now, Real Wellness products are only being sold in certain California marijuana dispensaries, including almost a dozen in his hometown of San Diego, where the company is based.
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It's a small, plastic canister that LaCola tells CNBC he plans to sell for between 30 and 40 cents to dispensaries, which package up and sell marijuana to consumers.
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The state voted to legalize medical weed in 2016, but it has not yet been made available to the public, as officials are still licensing dispensaries and growing facilities.
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"This is what recreational marijuana legalization in Canada looks like," said Jodie Emery, an activist and the co-owner of the lounge and several medical marijuana dispensaries across Canada.
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Buddy's had "stocked up tons because we've seen other states, once they go recreational, how most of the dispensaries sell out on the first or second day," Lucero said.
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That means buyers have to carry cash, and sellers end up with huge amounts of cash on hand — some dispensaries in Denver can do sales of $500,000 per month.
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The investment information conference organized by cannabis analysts Viridian Capital Advisors focused on pot markets and took place just days after New York opened its first medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Wolf currently has them in thirty-five dispensaries and has developed new products: an almond-cake bite, a chocolate truffle, and a soon-to-be-launched savory cheese crisp.
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At the time, dispensaries took products as long as the seller had a medical card, and entrepreneurship among people who had long worked in cannabis was off the charts.
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Finding out a friend was a member at one of the longer-running and well-respected dispensaries in Toronto, I asked them to get me an application to join.
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But within a few months of his settling in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon's laws changed, requiring medical dispensaries to either pay a fee or transition to a recreational model.
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He said the intention of 280e was clearly not to target dispensaries, because it was enacted nearly 15 years before California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana.
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Each of those five extant companies are allowed to run four dispensaries, a scale that some have said is too small for a state with nearly 20 million residents.
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Many dispensaries around the US and Canada have moved to online-only operations as well, per press releases and social media messages sent to Business Insider throughout the week.
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It's free of the hairy leaves that cover the part of the plant you smoke, and will likely fetch a higher price at dispensaries or on the black market.
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Dispensaries were often in barred storefronts, and their employees had to engage in the charade of scolding their prescription-bearing customers if they talked about sharing purchases with friends.
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These are just some of the dispensaries that were impacted by the leak, but vpnMentor's report warns that it is possible that every THSuite client and customer was affected.
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One report in Forbes Russia said Kukushkin started with investments in dispensaries in California and Nevada, and quoted him as saying he now made $60 million in revenue annually.
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By her own calculations, cannabis companies (including dispensaries and growers) will add roughly 300,000 jobs — most of them starting out at near-minimum-wage salaries of $16 per-hour.
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"This is cannabis meets Big Ag," said Steve DeAngelo, the executive director of one the nation's largest marijuana dispensaries, who last year founded Harborside Farms to supply the business.
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Cannabis retailing has moved from street corners to state-of-the-art dispensaries and stores, with California entrepreneurs producing rose gold vaporizers and businesses in Colorado selling infused drinks.
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Dispensaries located on the state's borders saw sales grow 32% last year, while those in the rest of the state increased sales 17%, according to cannabis data provider Headset.
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The state government has deployed new ambulances, more dispensaries and even mobile medical units -- small vans equipped with emergency medical care -- as well as doctors and nurses, he said.
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Visa and MasterCard will not process transactions for pot dispensaries and most banks will not open accounts for them, even though the State of Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use.
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Since federal law trumps state law, any president at any time could shut down the farms, dispensaries and thousands of businesses that have cropped up in the wake of legalization.
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So Meadow plans to use its new cash to keep expanding its monthly fee SAAS platform, and assist dispensaries with more of their finance, payroll and other back office problems.
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One limitation of the study is that it's possible mystery callers might get different advice by phone than pregnant women might get in person at dispensaries, the study team acknowledges.
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TORONTO, June 8 (Reuters) - Jake Rowinski, a 20-year-old University of Toronto student, buys marijuana every week from one of the many self-described "medical" dispensaries in downtown Toronto.
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In states that had the greatest access to medical marijuana via dispensaries, treatment admissions related to opioids were reduced by 264 percent—while overdose death rates fell by 250 percent.
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One study surveyed nearly 3,000 pot smokers recruited at Washington dispensaries or via social media: 36 percent said they used marijuana to replace opioids; a Canadian study had similar findings.
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Adults over 21 can now possess two-and-a-half ounces of weed, purchased from social clubs or retail dispensaries, to be used in a nonpublic space or private residence.
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Considering that industry sales jumped 0003 percent to $5.4 billion in 2015 and are expected to increase another 25 percent this year, according to ArcView Group, these dispensaries are flush.
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Federal regulations currently deter banks from working with legal dispensaries in the U.S. and mandate that banks and other financial firms file "suspicious activity reports" to help monitor money laundering.
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Yes, but: Pharma would have billions of dollars and clinical data, but they would have to break past the ongoing relationships medical cannabis suppliers and dispensaries currently have with doctors.
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For the first six months of the year, the state has allowed dispensaries to sell product that isn't yet up to new code so manufacturers can adjust to the changes.
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According to NMU associate chemistry professor Brandon Canfield, there are already a host of growers, dispensaries, and other pot-related businesses looking to bring the program's students on as interns.
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The social network has shut down the business pages of a marijuana dispensaries in a number of states including New Jersey, Maine, and Washington, reports NJ.com, citing its community standards.
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Partner Colorado Credit Union began working with state-sanctioned dispensaries two years ago and has developed elaborate protocols to minimize risk, including an initial vetting that can take three weeks.
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It also vowed to pump 25 percent of the tax revenue reaped from commercial sales into historically impoverished neighborhoods, and attempted to systematically encourage minority ownership of licensed pot dispensaries.
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The state of emergency will allow officials to ease the regulations around who can distribute the cannabis, but many Nevada dispensaries will likely face cutting staff or shutting down altogether.
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Late Friday evening, negotiations between House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Senate President Joe Negron collapsed as both men quibbled over how many dispensaries licensed growers would be allowed to open.
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Vapers, who smoke electronic cigarettes that may contain nicotine but never tobacco, can pick up supplies in locations from shabby streetside vendors to slick dispensaries with assistants in lab coats.
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The interior ministry said other institutions from different groups had been taken over, including 34 schools or colleges, 163 dispensaries, 184 ambulances, five hospitals and eight offices of banned organizations.
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The cannabis industry is embracing new technologies like facial recognition and advanced video analytics throughout the supply chain—from grow rooms and processing facilities to distribution centers and retail dispensaries.
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The group doesn't have a shelter to process the rescued animals, but they use mobile food dispensaries to feed hungry canines who get mixed up in the crowd of worshippers.
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He was hired in 2014, shortly after legalization hit Colorado, to appraise the sumptuous weed strains in glass jars in the dozens of smoke shops and dispensaries across the state.
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"I would have liked to see the process move a bit more quickly," said Brian Goldstein, the CEO of Honolulu-based Manoa Botanical, one of eight dispensaries granted a license.
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Patients with a prescription will be able to get cannabis pills, oils, patches, topical gels, liquids, and vaporizable extracts from dispensaries, but not actual weed for smoking and no edibles.
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At the same time, there has been a spike in police raids of dispensaries in recent months, including one in Chilliwack, BC earlier this week, and in Saskatoon last year.
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According to the CDC, people with EVALI who said they'd used THC vapes were 9 times more likely to have gotten the vapes from informal sources, compared to licensed dispensaries.
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Jeffrey Zucker, co-founder of Green Lion Partners, a cannabis strategy firm, said the fact that most dispensaries are only able to accept cash poses dangers for buyers and sellers.
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For instance, the company helped the First State Compassion Center in Delaware create business plans and submit applications for the state's first two medical cannabis dispensaries in Wilmington and Lewes.
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Then the researchers sought out cannabis users in several of the states where the drug is legal, including Colorado, California, Washington and Oregon, recruiting participants through websites, dispensaries and clinics.
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More than 100 dispensaries began selling marijuana across the state, and many more are expected to open in the coming weeks as San Francisco and Los Angeles begin issuing licenses.
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Putting money into growers or dispensaries requires investors to sign documents that are going to be filed with state regulators, putting investors at odds with federal law, Mr. Dayton said.
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Each autumn, young people flock to Northern California to find temporary work pruning cannabis bound for the state's legal dispensaries, or black markets as far away as the East Coast.
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And that day, none of the roughly 100 illegal pot dispensaries in the city had the provincial licenses they needed to operate legally, even those that had applied for one.
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Marijuana enthusiasts and those curious about the drug are expected to flock to the more than three dozen licensed dispensaries in the state, most located in Chicago or Chicago suburbs.
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Many had received negative press for operating outside the law, selling questionable products, poor working conditions, and robberies, and there was an expectation that legal dispensaries would be more professional.
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Dispensaries in the state celebrated the change by opening their stores at midnight the day the sales became legal, expecting large crowds in the stores and even setting off fireworks.
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Cann wants to sell its cannabis-infused drinks at a similar price to craft beerRight now, Cann is available in 75 California dispensaries, with more coming shortly, the founders said.
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Seeking answers, NBC News commissioned one of the nation's leading cannabis testing facilities to test a sampling of THC cartridges — 18 in all — obtained from legal dispensaries and unlicensed dealers.
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B.C. has made it much harder for people to open federally legal dispensaries and therefore there's less of them and less weed is getting sold as a result of it.
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He still wants to add a provision allowing the state's medical marijuana dispensaries to begin selling recreational marijuana on the same day that Mr. Murphy signs a bill into law.
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Just ask Virgil Grant, who "ran six licensed medical cannabis dispensaries in California" until he was raided by the DEA in California in 2010 and sentenced to six years in prison.
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Patients decried the action as limiting access to information that helped them procure and learn about their medicine, while cannabusiness owners were indignant about their dispensaries being flagged as illegal commerce.
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For example, gangs dominate the burgeoning prescription marijuana industry in East Bakersfield, and place a tax on businesses, according to police, who said that there are 2550 dispensaries in Kern County.
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There are 10 states in the U.S. where weed is recreationally legal, which means you can access a range of products from licensed retailers (read: dispensaries) without a medical marijuana card.
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The store is MedMen's first in the Sunshine State, but the company has big plans there: Of the 15 dispensaries it's looking to open this year, 12 are slated for Florida.
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Dispensaries will check IDs for users entering in store to be sure they are of age in legal recreational markets and are either patients or caretakers in medicinal markets, he said.
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New Jersey's health department noted that, "to date, there have been no reports of serious lung illness associated with products sold in dispensaries permitted by the New Jersey Medical Marijuana Program."
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Right now, medical marijuana dispensaries in Oregon can sell recreational marijuana products, but only until the end of the year, when the first licenses for recreational-marijuana stores are made available.
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The study also found that legal opioid painkiller distribution didn't seem to decline in states with pot dispensaries, which, according to researchers, suggests people are replacing illegally obtained opioids with pot.
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Cameron Wald, executive vice president of Project Cannabis, which owns four stores in LA, said the illegal dispensaries can sell the same product for nearly 40% less than a legal store.
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We did all this research with like, dispensaries, geneticists, lawyers, we were worried about cultural sensitivity with the subject matter, things like how much more black people get jailed for it.
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Some cities have already raised their testing standards above the state's requirements and a few dispensaries, like SPARC SF, have been testing to the most sensitive levels available since their inceptions.
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There's also the practical matter: There are now thousands of medical pot dispensaries alone in the US, with hundreds, if not thousands, more stores open or soon opening for recreational marijuana.
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Dispensaries have come a long way since the Fight Club–like existence of Toronto's oldest dispensary CALM (Cannabis as Living Medicine)—a place discovered only by accident and never spoken about.
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Passed more than a year ago, the proposition promised to make it legal for those 2300 and over to buy weed, and the first recreational dispensaries opened on New Year's Day.
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The weed is available today at three partner dispensaries in California for $50 an eighth (3.5 grams), with the cannabis oil (for use in vaporizers) priced at $40 per 500 mg.
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The attorney's office says the weed was purchased legally in Canada, however that is not possible since there are no legal dispensaries in Ontario and edibles are still illegal in Canada.
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