Big changes are coming for Denver businesses that cause odors, specifically marijuana grow operations. The Denver City Council has passed new rules regulating the smell.

One area the Department of Environmental Health said generates the most complaints is North Denver. The organization in Denver receives about 100 formal complaints a year.

“A lot of it is marijuana,” said Department of Environmental Health spokesman Gregg Thomas.

Thomas said since the legalization of marijuana, the department has been looking at new ways to regulate air pollution. Now that the city council has made its decision, Thomas said they finally have the ground work.

“It’s partly a brave new world we are entering into,” said Thomas.

Netherlands Based on rising demand, Bedrocan, the sole remaining producer of medicinal cannabis in Europe, tripled its production with the opening of a new production facility in 2015. Nevertheless, the company cannot supply Europe’s cannabis patients single-handedly.

The seven-pronged pot leaf is the most tired logo in the marijuana industry. Need proof? Check out the leaf-free pot brands dreamed up by 12 leading design firms, which were challenged in April by Surface Magazine to create packaging for "the future Starbucks of weed," a fictionalized, aspirational marijuana brand.

Nixing the leaf, it turns out, creates stunning results.

First Landmark Acquisition Catapults Nesta into the Billion-Dollar Legalized Cannabis Market.

Nesta Holding Co. Ltd., a private equity firm targeting the US cannabis industry, today announced its acquisition of Wikileaf, the leading price comparison website for licensed recreational and medicinal marijuana consumers.  This first landmark acquisition catapults Nesta into this lucrative US market.  It will enable the company to readily identify and catalyze the growth of high potential firms in this industry, and capitalize on the budding legalized cannabis market which could inject up to $44 billion into the US economy by the end of the decade⁽¹⁾.

1-800-Flowers CEO Jim McCann says that despite the company’s efforts to utilize domestic flower growers, the growers in certain states are considering growing marijuana as a potentially more profitable option.

“We have been pushing for domestic production of flowers hard for the last 10 years and having real good success,” McCann told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo.

But McCann noted that many flower growers are now tempted by the huge potential revenue boost from growing cannabis instead.

New polling data shows that just over half of Ontario voters now prefer a pharmacy or dispensary distribution system for recreational marijuana over the LCBO. This shows a decline in support for both dispensaries and the LCBO. Opposition to the LCBO at 54% opposed is higher than both dispensaries (34%) and pharmacies (40%).

To celebrate the fifth annual Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You), here are six Star Wars strains that we'd like to see. If you're into genetics, feel free to get working on breeding these buds (as long as you promise to share them with us).

Much rationale — economic, scientific and societal — has already been given by many reasoned Vermont voices in support of the legalization and regulation of cannabis.

Over the past year, Vermonters have organized to form various coalitions, both organic and funding-enhanced. Public hearings have been held in every corner of the state, and have been attended by legislators. And those same legislators have dedicated time and effort to cannabis hearings at the Statehouse, presumably to build consensus and avoid the confused and combative scenario we face tomorrow.

The City of Victoria is considering rules for its illegal cannabis dispensaries that would be more permissive than Vancouver’s landmark bylaw, permitting the sale of controversial “edibles” and allowing pot shops to be located closer to schools.

Medical marijuana advocates in the provincial capital praised the draft rules for the city’s 32 existing dispensaries, which will be voted on by council later this week. The new proposal comes as officials in Vancouver began cracking down on dispensaries, handing out tickets to nearly two dozen shops over the weekend.

On April 29, 2016, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had issued the first dispensary registration certificate to Sanctuary ATC, a state-licensed alternative treatment center, to operate its medical cannabis dispensary in Plymouth.

One day later, on April 30, Sanctuary ATC held its grand opening and officially became the state’s first alternative treatment center to dispense medical cannabis to qualified patients and caregivers.