The seventh annual conference, which kicks off Wednesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, will bring more than 25,000 industry professionals to town for three days of networking and deal making. More than 1,000 exhibitors will offer an array of industry services and products ranging from accounting software to extraction equipment.
The forced resignation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has people in the local marijuana industry breathing a sigh of relief.
Planet 13, which bills itself as one of the largest dispensaries in the world, opened to the public Thursday.
A federal trial in Colorado could have far-reaching effects on the United States’ budding marijuana industry if a jury sides with a couple who say having a cannabis business as a neighbor hurts their property’s value.
California moved a step closer Friday to allowing marijuana deliveries in communities that have banned retail sales of the drug as regulators rebuffed cities and police chiefs who are opposed to the rule.
The growth in North American cannabis edibles sales are set to smoke the flower market.
On Oct. 17, Canada becomes the second and largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace. Uruguay launched legal sales last year, after several years of planning.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office seized more than $20 million worth of illegally grown marijuana in September in what detectives believe is the largest drug bust in Nye County history.
Nevada kicked off the first month of the new fiscal year with its biggest monthly marijuana sales since the state legalized pot for recreational use on July 1, 2017.
MedMen, whose stores resemble Apple retail shops with tablets on wooden tables, will open a 7,000 square foot store — its largest in the U.S. — near Resorts World next summer.
The Mormon church joined lawmakers, the governor and advocates to back a deal Thursday that would legalize medical marijuana in conservative Utah after months of fierce debate.
MJardin Group, a manager of cannabis facilities around North America, said it is looking to invest as much as $30 million into the Nevada marijuana market as recreational sales boom.
The Coca-Cola Company said Monday it is “closely watching” the expanding use of a cannabis element in drinks, another sign cannabis and cannabis-infused products are getting more acceptance in mainstream culture and a harder look from long-established pillars of American business.
Despite more marijuana licenses available from the state, parts of rural Nevada continue to shun the business.
Nearly 20 percent of marijuana products in California have failed tests for potency and purity since the state started requiring the checks on July 1, a failure rate some in the industry say has more to do with unrealistic standards and technical glitches than protecting consumer safety.
