NCCI: Healthcare Costs, Uncertainty Top 2018 Challenges for Workers’ Comp January 18, 2018 For the fourth year in a row, carrier executives identified the U.S healthcare environment as their top concern for 2018,...
North Dakota Medical Marijuana Rules Poised for Approval January 12, 2018 By BLAKE NICHOLSON North Dakota’s State Health Council is poised to sign off on administrative rules for medical marijuana amid uncertainty over whether...
Feds to End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish January 5, 2018 By SADIE GURMAN Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in...
Medical Marijuana Loses Foothold to Recreational Industry December 7, 2017 By DYLAN DARLING, The Register-Guard A medical marijuana card used to be the key to buying and possessing pot in Oregon. But the rise of...
Lawyers Walk Fine Line Navigating State, Federal Pot Laws December 5, 2017 By BRIAN MELLEY Just as entrepreneurs getting into the retail pot industry need a good lawyer, some of those lawyers might be wise...
Indiana Prosecutors Vehemently Oppose Medical Marijuana November 9, 2017 By BRIAN SLODYSKO Indiana’s county prosecutors remain vehemently opposed to any form of marijuana legalization and insist the plant “is not medicine” amid...
Montana Marijuana Providers Await Testing Requirement Details October 17, 2017 By KATHERYN HOUGHTON, Bozeman Daily Chronicle When Tyler Smith was diagnosed with testicular cancer, medical marijuana didn’t feel like a valid option. He took opioids to...
NCCI Looks to Future Issues Related to Medical Marijuana September 28, 2017 The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) released a final article in a series examining stakeholder concerns over medical and...
NCCI Examines Employee, Legislator and Regulator Concerns About Marijuana September 20, 2017 Two more articles released by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) examine the many questions employees, legislators and regulators...
Insurer Says It Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Medical Marijuana in Maine Case September 18, 2017 The Maine supreme court on Wednesday began considering whether a paper millworker left suicidal by narcotic painkillers should receive workers’...