New York marijuana regulators on Friday gave the formal thumbs up to six of the state’s 10 licensed medical marijuana companies – most of which are large multistate operators – to begin adult-use cannabis sales on Dec. 29, precisely one year after recreational sales were launched in the Empire State. …

Optimism in Connecticut is beginning to fade as the industry faces a slow and challenging rollout, with only a fraction of licensed businesses fully operational. As of Nov. 1, the state’s online licensing database showed that 55 cannabis companies are waiting for licenses. Forty have received provisional licenses, according to …

Martin Luther King III, son of the famed civil rights leader, publicly spoke in Las Vegas on Thursday about the need for equity and inclusion in the cannabis industry. The event, part of the annual MJBiz Conference, was hosted by Minorities for Medical Marijuana and centered around the theme “Cannabis …