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With California’s Medical Marijuana revenues growing by roughly 38% from 2013 to 2014 and easily surpassing the billion dollar mark, it’s no surprise to see Medical Dispensaries adapting to changing legal and competitive dynamics.

San Francisco’s largest and most compliant Medical Marijuana Dispensary, The Green Door, signed an exclusive partnership with SF based technology start-up OnPoint Applications LLC to provide on-demand delivery services to their patients. The Green Door will now use OnPoint’s technology to automate delivery to their patients.

Terra Tech, an Irvine-based marijuana agriculture company, will merge with Black Oak Gallery, a retail medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland.

The merger includes Blüm Oakland’s supply chain: an on-site cultivation facility, proprietary marijuana strains and a retail store front.

Blüm Oakland, which opened in 2012, has more than 42,000 registered customers and brought in around $14 million in revenue in 2015.

Derek Peterson, chief executive of Terra Tech, said in a statement the combined companies would touch “every aspect of the cannabis life cycle – from cultivation, to extraction, to branding, and now, with the acquisition of Blüm, to retail sale.”

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, INC. (OTCPink:PNPL) (the “Company”), a publicly-traded company that offers cannabis industry consulting, technology, investments, turn-key property rentals, and branding concepts to businesses in the legal cannabis industry, announced today that after a 10 month registration process, the state of Illinois granted the Company’s consulting client Nature’s Treatment of Illinois, Inc. (“NTI”) a Notice of Conditional Approval regarding its dispensing organization application for registration.  NTI was awarded one of only approximately 60 dispensary conditional registration approvals in Illinois.  The dispensary will be the only one in Illinois’ District 7.

Last week, Sean Parker made an honest issue out of cannabis legalization. The former Napster and Facebook whiz kid (and current philanthropic billionaire) plunked down $500,000 towards the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, a legalization measure vying for the Nov. 2016 ballot. The check was a long-awaited confirmation: It had been known as the "Parker Initiative," despite no material support from Parker until last week — and only tepid verbal approval.

A new state law has cities in Ventura County scrambling to further formalize their bans on the commercial cultivation, processing, distribution and delivery of medical marijuana.

They are doing so in response to the California Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act that went into effect Jan. 1. The act requires cities and counties to have land use rules that regulate or prohibit commercial medical marijuana uses.

Cities that do not have such ordinances by March 1 will lose their authority to do so. The state will then be the sole licensing authority.

Medical marijuana dispensaries are already banned throughout Ventura County. The ordinances the cities are adopting clarify those bans.

CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemp Health Inc., maker of hemp cannabidiol (CBD) products, today introduced CannaPleasure, a stimulating salve for the bedroom. The company also released Pharma CBD Peanut Butter and Honey, new kid-friendly edibles that deliver the medicinal benefits of CBD without the psychoactive effects of THC. Both products are legal in all 50 states and 42 countries.

CannaPleasure blends 50 mg of CBD with hemp seed oil, peppermint oil, ginger root and other herbs to provide a cool, tingling sensation on the skin. It offers lovers an all-natural alternative to the synthetic lubricants found on drugstore shelves. CannaPleasure's base is made with almond oil and beeswax.

By Anthony Johnson

Merger brings California dispensary under public ownership

Selling pot is no longer a private deal.

There are champagne labels for wine and roquefort labels for cheese made in the right regions, so could there be a Humbolt Haze label for marijuana?

For Kristin Nevedal, Super Silver Haze is not always the same Super Silver Haze. Like the concept of “terroir” in foods, she and many growers believe the characteristics of cannabis plants vary depending on their local environment. 

“There are obvious differences between, say, a Super Silver Haze that is cultivated at a 700ft elevation and a Super Silver Haze that is cultivated at a 2,200ft elevation in Humboldt County,” said Nevedal, a marijuana activist and former grower.

There are champagne labels for wine and roquefort labels for cheese, so could there be a Humboldt Haze label for marijuana?

Two self-proclaimed nuns, Sister Kate and Sister Darcey, grow and sell marijuana for medicinal purposes in Merced, California. But the future of their business is now in jeopardy as the Merced City Council issued a temporary ban on marijuana cultivation after a 6-0 vote on Jan. 4.

The Sisters of the Valley grow and sell medical marijuana products in Merced, California. However, the city recently placed a temporary ban on marijuana cultivation, putting the sisters’ business at risk. Photo credit: Sisters of the Valley