The state's Department of Health will choose the five medical marijuana growers in mid-July.

One company has proposed placing a medical marijuana manufacturing facility in the Adirondacks.(Photo: WGRZ)

NEW YORK STATE – The New York State Department of Health will officially select five companies for medical marijuana licenses in mid-July, a spokesman told 2 On Your Side on Wednesday afternoon.

Leading East Coast Trade Show for Legalized and Medical Marijuana Attracts Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs and Major Media to Event at the Javits Center

GOLDEN — Surging electricity consumption by Colorado’s booming marijuana industry is sabotaging Denver’s push to use less energy — just as the White House perfects a Clean Power Plan to cut carbon pollution.

Citywide electricity use has been rising at the rate of 1.2 percent a year, and 45 percent of that increase comes from marijuana-growing facilities, Denver officials said Wednesday.

Denver has a goal of capping energy use at 2012 levels. Electricity is a big part of that.

The nonprofit organization California Cannabis Voice Humboldt unveiled a draft ordinance nearly a year in the making on Tuesday that would regulate medical cannabis cultivation in Humboldt County on parcels larger than five acres.

Standing on the Humboldt County Superior Courthouse steps before a host of supporters, community officials and passersby, CCVH Executive Director Richard Marks called upon growers and non-growers alike to help “create a new future” for the county.

“This community has come to the table, has come out of the shadows, has come into the light and said it’s time to move forward,” Marks said. “And to be honest, it hasn’t been easy and it hasn’t been without tremendous risk. But it hasn’t been in vain. People have listened.”

Massachusetts’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened last week in Salem.

More than 50 applications from companies eager to open medical marijuana dispensaries flooded the offices of state regulators this week, two years after Massachusetts launched its ill-fated licensing process.

The submission of so many applications indicated robust interest in the state’s emerging medical marijuana industry. The state had previously licensed 15 dispensaries, with the first opening last week in Salem.

For marijuana executives who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars vying for licenses during former governor Deval Patrick’s administration, the opportunity to apply again couldn’t come soon enough.

LAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESSWIRE / JUNE 30, 2015 /Player's Network, Inc. (OTC: PNTV), a vertically integrated, diversified, fully reporting public company operating two complimentary portfolios of Media and Cultivation, Production & Licensing of products relating to Medical Marijuana, announced today that the company has reduced its debt and paid off; KBM / Asher $200,400, Typenex $104,000, LG Capital $50,000. Other positions reduced include WCH $60,000, Group 10 $30,000, Tangiers $47,000, for a total of $491,000. This was accomplished by the payment of $146,400 cash and the balance through conversions over the last 3 months.

MESQUITE, NV / ACCESSWIRE / July 1, 2015 /Cannabis Sativa, Inc. (OTCQB:CBDS) (referred to collectively with its subsidiaries as "CBDS" or the "Company") has negotiated retirement of approximately $3 million in debt owed to its Chairman Steve Kubby in exchange for 1.5 million shares of the Company's Series A convertible preferred stock. The conversion feature allows Mr. Kubby to exchange his preferred stock for the Company's common stock on a one to one basis at the end of a two year holding period or at the time a spinoff of Kush is effected, whichever occurs first.

WILLIAMS, Ore. –  On the third Thursday of each month, veteran medical marijuana growers and hopeful newbies gather in the old Williams Grange hall in a small rural Oregon valley long known for growing some of the best cannabis on the planet.

Since voters last fall made the state the fourth to legalize recreational marijuana, people have been flocking to the hall to get the latest update on lawmakers' progress on crafting rules for the new industry.

The entrepreneurs also share tips on how to produce happy and healthy marijuana plants.

"Why not come to the source to learn about growing?" says Gina Erdmann, director of the Oregon SunGrown Growers' Guild, as she lays out materials on the sign-in table outside the hall, now a community center.

Life-saving medications could be an import at risk if Greece defaults on its debt and exits the European Union.

Richard Bergstrom, the director general of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), sent a note to the European Union Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis on Monday notifying him that pharmaceutical companies would continue to send drugs to Greece but felt the supply could be in peril if Europe doesn’t take action soon. 

The EFPIA believes the “integrity of the medicines supply chain may be in jeopardy” if Greece reintroduces the drachma, a form of currency whose value will swiftly depreciate, according to Hirschler.

Jul 01, 2015 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Adds Industrial Chemistry and Product Development to Core Consulting Services; Improves Position for Opportunities in Essential Oils

CHATSWORTH, CA / ACCESSWIRE / July 1, 2015 / VAPE Holdings, Inc. (otcqb:VAPE) (the "Company" or "VAPE"), a holding company focused on providing healthy, efficient, and sustainable products to lawfully operating participants in the legal cannabis industry, is pleased to announce that it has acquired control and 80% of the equity of Pennsylvania-based BetterChem Consulting, Inc. ("BetterChem") in exchange for restricted common stock, and for other share-based consideration based on performance over the next two years.