Grown In

Cannabis investors predict secondary market for Illinois social equity dispensaries

By Brad Spirrison | 10 hours ago

Illinois should expect a wave of cannabis dispensary license sales later this year.

Discrepancy notices leave Illinois craft grow applicants nervous, and some prepare for a lawsuit

By Mike Fourcher | 10 hours ago

Illinois craft grow applicants await the results of their applications and are increasingly concerned their application pool will undergo a replay of the scoring problems and lawsuits resulting from the Illinois dispensary license process.

Missouri

Grown In’s cultivation tour of C4 Cannabis’ Carrollton, Missouri facility

By Mike Fourcher | June 14, 2021

we visit C4 in Carrollton, Missouri, a small town about ninety minutes east and north of Kansas City.

Opinion

Short-term institutional memory: Five observations two years into the bud beat

By Brad Spirrison | June 14, 2021

What started as a legally precarious and shadowy industry in Colorado, California and the Pacific Northwest decades earlier is now firmly manifesting eastward.

Video Tours

Grown In’s cultivation tour of PharmaCann’s Dwight, Illinois facility

By Mike Fourcher | June 10, 2021

PharmaCann has been operating in Dwight since 2015, originally with greenhouses, but four months ago they opened a new indoor facility on the same site.

Grown In Nuggets

Introducing the 2nd Chance Initiative; Michigan cannabis career fair; PTSD and cannabis

By Brad Spirrison | June 10, 2021

News and nuggets for cannabis practitioners in the Midwest and beyond.

Illinois

Illinois labor organizer on cannabis: “We don’t see careers, we just see jobs”

By Brad Spirrison | June 10, 2021

Organizing Moises Zavala says career advancement claims by Illinois marijuana companies during “the legislation stage” of adult-use cannabis two years ago are not being met.