Day: July 31, 2019

With the passage of Senate Bill 1494, Arizona medical marijuana cards are now valid for two years, AZ Mirror reported. This will save patients from the $150 annual state fee as well as a varying $60-$150 annual visit to a medical marijuana doctor. SB1494 also requires the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) to create standards for third-party labs to test…

Legislation establishing a comprehensive tobacco waste reduction program passed off the California Senate floor recently in a 25 to 9 vote. Senate Bill 424 addresses tobacco waste by banning the sale of single-use tobacco products and requiring multi-use tobacco products to be recyclable or collected for take-back by tobacco product manufacturers. Under the bill, manufacturers…

The state of Alaska has proposed regulations for an industrial hemp pilot program. As reported by the Associate Press, a state law passed last year authorized the creation of a program to study the growth, cultivation or marketing of industrial hemp. Anchorage TV station KTVA reports staff at the state Plant Materials Center planted six…

Nevada US Attorney Nicholas Trutanich says that while marijuana isn’t his office’s focus, the prosecution of those doing business in the cannabis industry isn’t off the table. In an interview with the Reno Gazette Journal, Trutanich said, “Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, and my job is to enforce federal law. Nevada is not safe…

According to a story in the New York Times, Juul Labs is aggressively recruiting scientists to prove to the Food and Drug Administration, and to the public, that e-cigarettes offer more public health benefit than risk. If it fails to submit proper evidence by 2022, the agency could halt all sales.An assistant professor of physiology…

CBD is a beautiful thing. That seemed to be one of the key takeaways from Cosmoprof North America 2019, the leading B2B trade show for the beauty and skin care products industry. “All the retailers want in on CBD,” said Stephen Letourneau, Chief Brand Officer, Cannuka, a premium skincare brand that combines CBD with Manuka…

Tired of being dumped by your merchant service provider simply because you sell CBD and cannabis-related products. POSaBit has your back. The Washington State based financial technology company delivering unique blockchain enabled payment processing and point of sale (POS) systems for cash-only businesses with a focus on the cannabis industry, announced the rollout of its…