marijuana businesses

State regulators recently lifted the restrictions against legal cannabis growers whose products were determined to have unapproved levels of a chemical related to DDT, a pesticide banned in the U.S. in 1972. The growers didn't use DDT themselves, but their crops sit on old fruit orchards where it was used decades ago.

Legal marijuana growers along the West Coast are struggling with oversupply, low prices and limited outlets for selling their product. Washington's Legislature last week approved a “trigger bill” that will allow the governor to enter into interstate cannabis trade agreements should the federal government allow it.

The end is near for a veteran-owned medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Olympia. It’s a casualty of the state merging recreational and medical...

One year ago, Cannabis City owner James Lathrop stood outside his Seattle store, one of the first to sell legal recreational marijuana in Washington, and…

A court case in Pierce County Friday will decide whether the city of Fife can ban marijuana businesses. But it could have a much larger side effect,…

Buying legal pot is turning into a game of Where’s Waldo. Stores are open one day, but closed the next. A small handful of shops are still doing business,…

The House voted Wednesday in support of making it easier for banks to do business with legal pot shops and providers of medical marijuana.The 236-186 vote…

A would-be marijuana merchant is suing the city of Wenatchee over its ban on pot businesses. The outcome could have big implications for other local…

Move over, Hempfest; there’s a new show in town, and on the same weekend.CannaCon is coming to the Tacoma Dome, and organizers hope to make it the biggest…

Washington’s Attorney General buoyed local governments looking to block pot businesses with a legal opinion issued Thursday. His argument cites the…