Terra Tech Corp (OTCMKTS:TRTC) told investors it is set to open a cannabis dispensary in Las Vegas, which will be the first of eight new operations certified by Nevada.

The California headquartered group, which describes itself as a vertically integrated cannabis-focused agriculture company, said the first dispensary would be located adjacent to the famous Las Vegas strip and would open in the first quarter of next year.

PERRYVILLE — A Colorado-based company has started the hiring process for its Maryland medical marijuana operations, which could provide as many as 100 new jobs in Cecil County, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

While the debate on the benefits of marijuana is still very strong in the US, some horticulturists have
actually started preaching the benefits of medical marijuana. Mary Jane’s Patch recently started
dispensing superior-quality marijuana.

Mary Jane’s Patch, a Denver based dispensary that exclusively deals in weed recently started dispensing both medical and recreational marijuana. It has been confirmed by Graham Kelly, the present owner and caretaker of the patch, that they have started dispensing both medical and recreational marijuana commercially. He said that the primary aim of the patch is to promote the benefits of marijuana.

During the final, fire-scorched days of August, Jeremy Moberg of CannaSol Farms slept on the roofs of houses and trailers in order to monitor the wildfires that were working their way around his land in Okanogan County. “So many people left and didn’t want to deal,” he says, including a few of CannaSol’s employees. (He said they are no longer employed with the company.) When Moberg or any of his remaining tough-it-out neighbors saw a fire getting too close to a house, they’d scramble onto their tractors and cut fire lines into the soil to protect it.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -

Representatives from the governor’s office and state Legislature gathered Wednesday to hear Florida economist’s projections for revenue from a potential expansion of medical marijuana. They’re using data from 20 other states that have already legalized pot for medical use.

"Estimating how doctors will be involved and how they’ll treat this, and what people will do and the behavioral side of it is much harder, and that’s really what we’re looking to other states for," said Florida Chief Economist Amy Baker.

Potential revenue could shift either way based on what types of diseases are covered by medical marijuana.

Supporters said hundreds of millions of dollars could be at stake.

DALLAS, October 1, 2015/PRNewswire/ --

North American Cannabis Holdings, Inc. (USMJ) and Puration, Inc. (PURA) today announced the first production run of the EpiVape product.  EpiVape is a cost effective disposable hemp oil medicinal vaporizer.  The unique shape is not only functional but also intended to set the Epivape product apart from the currently available cigarette shaped vaporizers in an appeal to the medicinal user rather than the recreational user.

On Thursday October 1, Oregon became the third state to make recreational marijuana legally available to those over the age of 21. The legalization occurred earlier than originally planned due to the complexity of the compromise involved in the legalization bill.

Oregon joins Washington and Colorado as the third state to legalize recreational marijuana, with Alaska and the District of Colombia to join the number soon. Oregon’s legislation has an interesting compromise, allowing cities where the majority of the residents oppose legalization to ban sales of marijuana all together.

Marijuana sales for recreational use began in Oregon on Thursday as it joined Washington state and Colorado in allowing the sale of a drug that remains illegal under U.S. federal law.

Oregon residents 21 years and older can buy up to a quarter-ounce (seven grams) of dried pot at roughly 200 existing medical-use marijuana dispensaries as a new law took effect.

Backers hope the law will help curb a flourishing black market, but opponents say it heightens drug use and access by children.

About 40 people lined up outside the medical pot dispensary Shango in a strip mall near Portland International Airport for the chance to buy recreational pot one minute after midnight, when the changes went into effect.

As a physician who works at the FDA, I get a lot of questions from my medical colleagues. Well, sometimes they are questions -- and other times they are merely venting frustrations. "Why don't you regulate drug prices? Why are there so many drug ads on television? What the heck is a biosimilar?"

But as more of my friends learn what I actually do, they've been asking me just how does the FDA make decisions on whether or not to approve a drug. Specifically, they want to know how many people are needed in clinical trials to make decisions on whether a drug works, and if it is safe. I don't know about you, but I don't think this was ever covered in a pharmacology class.

Georgia-based clinical trials have shown early promise in using cannabis oil to treat epileptic seizures, although researchers said they won’t know for sure until at least the end of next year what strides they have made in the study of medical marijuana.

The update came Wednesday during the latest meeting of the state’s Commission on Medical Cannabis, formed earlier this year to study the effect of Georgia’s new medical marijuana law and whether it should be expanded to allow growers to harvest and distribute cannabis oil in-state.