All panelists discussed the challenges of hiring employees in today’s labor market, emphasizing the importance of retention through competitive pay, benefits and professional development programs.
“We fully expect to hear that we exceeded the required number of valid signatures,” Tom Haren, spokesperson for The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol told Grown In.
Michigan has more dispensary licenses issued per capita than any state east of the Mississippi. Operators are feeling that reality daily.
“The hardest part, to get something like this and any other business, is that it takes money. With no warehouse location already being built out for craft grows specifications because it just wasn’t legal…So, there are no places to actually cultivate.”
Grown In checked in with Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency director Andrew Brisbo.
“Once you receive a license as a social equity applicant, from my perspective, I think there’s a lot of belief that that’s kind of the measure of success as a social equity applicant.”
“This seems to be a case of watch, learn, and adapt on the part of state regulators.”
Applicants filed a motion asking the court to allow winners of 47 uncontested licenses to move forward with their delayed business plans.
UFCW Local 655, which is seeking to represent BeLeaf employees in bargaining negotiations, filed with the National Labor Relations Board Thursday.
An advocacy group seeking to force the state legislature to vote on an adult-use cannabis legalization bill is confident they’ll meet the deadline to gather over 13,000 signatures.
