State-legal marijuana businesses struggle with federal banking roadblocks.

According to a new survey of 400 cannabis professionals across the country conducted by Marijuana Business Daily, just about 40 percent of marijuana-related businesses have bank accounts for their companies.

Of businesses that actually handle the cannabis plant directly, only 30 percent have bank accounts, while 51 percent of ancillary firms in the cannabis industry have business  bank accounts.

In October of this year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Medical Marijuana and Safety Act (Assembly Bills 266 and 243 and Senate Bill 643, hereafter the MMRSA). The MMRSA finally regulates California’s medical marijuana industry at the state level almost 20 years after the Compassionate Use Act made medical marijuana legal under state law.

According to Florida Politics, the limited medical marijuana licenses of Florida is being challenged. There are a total of 13 administrative challenges with regard to the decision of the state to grant licenses for the medical marijuana industry.

There is an administrative challenge filed against the decision in all five regions. On the other hand, Red Nursery filed administrative challenges in two regions.

DETROIT - Some Detroit pastors are on a mission to wipe out weed dispensaries in the city.

They say they have had enough of the smell, the addition crime and what it’s doing to Detroit's youth.

That is why the Detroit Coalition of Concerned Pastors is pushing the city council to shut down the nearly 200 medical marijuana dispensaries that now line city streets.

"We don't need this in our community, period," said Pastor Marvin Winans.

"The state of Michigan didn't authorize any of them to open and neither did the city of Detroit," said Pastor Darell Reed. "And they are popping up all over the place. It's a problem and a nuisance."

Wine has wineries. Beer has breweries. Marijuana is about to get the Colorado Cannabis Ranch

Weed is big business and legal weed will become bigger still. That’s why American Cannabis Partners CEO Christian Hageseth thinks the time is right to open up the Colorado Cannabis Ranch, the world’s first-ever “weedery.”

If you leave things alone, you do not leave them as they are; you leave them to a tide of change.

The finger-pointing at the marijuana industry continues -- this time from those who worry that indoor farms use too much electricity.

We're less than three weeks away from the calendar ticking over to a new year -- a year that very well could be the most important for the marijuana industry to date.

ALBANY – New York health officials and the manufacturers say they are on track to start providing medical marijuana to critically ill patients next month.

Questions remain, however, over whether doctors and patients will be enrolled in the system quickly enough to make the drug available by the Jan. 5 target date.

"There's no sign of a system in place yet for patients. That's a major concern," said Julie Netherland, deputy state director for the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group. "We get calls from patients every day wanting to sign up, and we have to tell them we don't know yet."