Medical marijuana is shown inside a greenhouse in Mendocino County. Costa Mesa-based CalConn Holdings wants to build a similar facility in Desert Hot Springs.

Out in Coachella Valley, in the small city of Desert Hot Springs, there’s plenty of land and sunshine. What’s missing is industry, along with the jobs and tax revenue those businesses bring.

So city officials welcomed the announcement Jan. 26 that CalCann Holdings planned to set up shop and build a greenhouse to grow some 6,000 pounds of organic medical cannabis each year.

The pot will go to the Costa Mesa company’s own Santa Ana dispensaries and others under a new state licensing system.

Colorado legalized recreational marijuana back in 2012, making it one of a handful of U.S. states in where adults who are of age can legally purchase marijuana in many forms, along with its accessories, without any special paperwork beyond a valid ID. 

The release comes despite Gov. John Hickenlooper's executive order mandating all contaminated cannabis be destroyed

The city of Denver has released more than 28,000 packages of marijuana-infused edibles back into the market after recalling the products late last year when they tested positive for pesticides that are banned for use on cannabis.

Missourians supporting medical marijuana are hoping 2016 is their year. Will lawsuits crush that hope?

Pot activists are confident that 2016 is the year that Missouri will finally legalize medical marijuana — with a slew of big donations aimed at placing a measure on the ballot this fall. 

But Show-Me Cannabis, the group that's helping to spearhead the effort via the campaign committee "New Approach Missouri," will have to do it without one of the group's founders. Leah Maurer, a prominent pro-marijuana activist, resigned from Show-Me Cannabis' board on Friday.

While cannabis sales have risen across this country, under a cloud (no pun intended) of controversy, for various reasons, as legislation restricting its possession and use have fallen in some U.S. states. Alongside these legal changes, a niche design typology has, ahem, sprouted up: the high-design marijuana dispensary.

The founders of Kush Bottles Inc. developed packaging specifically for legal marijuana sales.

Plastic marijuana packaging has become, ah-hem, a growth industry.

With more than 40 percent of all states already allowing medical marijuana, and four of those also permitting recreational use, the packaging for Panama Red, Acapulco Gold and all those other colorfully named strains is heavily dependent on plastics.

Both flexible and rigid packaging helps keep the nation’s stash fresh for both the casual smoker in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska and medicinal users in 23 states.

And those packages aren’t just holding marijuana plants, as there are a whole host of edibles and concentrates for folks who don’t always, or ever, want to light up.

A Cannabis plant is pictured at the ''Weed the People'' event as enthusiasts gather to celebrate the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana in Portland, Oregon July 3, 2015. Reuters/Steve Dipaola

Medical Marijuana Inc, a pioneer in the industrial hemp business, is betting on Mexico as its next big market as the country opens up to the import of some cannabis-derived products for medical use.

The California-based company manufactures a hemp oil which can, under permits granted this week, be imported to Mexico for the first time to treat specific medical cases. It already supplies a similar product to Brazil.

There's a lot about cannabis you probably know. There's a lot about cannabis you don't know. Read on.

1. Cannabis is the third most popular recreational drug in the United States.

2. There are 3 types of cannabis: sativa, indica and ruderalis.

3. Government surveys show 25 million Americans have used cannabis in the past year.

4. The first states to legalize recreational cannabis were Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska.

TORONTO, Feb. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - PharmaCielo Ltd. today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Rionegro, Colombia based PharmaCielo Colombia Holdings S.A.S. has submitted its formal application to the Ministry of Health and the National Drugs Council to become a licensed grower and processor of medicinal-grade cannabis oil extracts, with plans to file an additional license application for export in the near future.

This announcement comes after President Juan Manuel Santos signed regulatory Decree 2467, on December the 22nd, 2015, establishing a licensing framework for the cultivation, processing, research and development and exportation of cannabis derivatives for scientific and medical purposes.