A leading advocate for the underground market says a recent Chicago Sun-Times report that legal cannabis sold in Illinois dispensaries is not always free of mold reveals that the legal market isn’t as good as advertised.
A cannabis testing lab in Michigan asked a judge last week to force state regulators into mediation over a recall issued last month.
By the end of the month, an Ohio adult-use cannabis ballot initiative proposal is expected to obtain enough signatures to force the state legislature to take a vote on legalizing adult-use.
This is the second big Midwest recall in four weeks, coming on the heels of the Michigan Regulatory Agency’s Nov. 17 recall.
“This one significantly challenges one of the lotteries in regard to the number of spaces or positions that were allotted to WAH. So, I think that’s the issue, right?” Jacobius asked.
“We have organizers on the ground. We are probing locations and having conversations with workers.”
Viridis co-founder and CEO, Greg Michaud, testified that his company would likely have to close its doors if the recall was not lifted on Viridis’ two laboratories.
An adult-use legalization ballot petition group backed by Missouri’s main cannabis trade association kicked off its signature collection efforts towards getting on the November 2022 ballot.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge Murray heard the start of arguments for a temporary restraining order hearing, calling for a revocation of the recall and monetary damages against MRA that the plaintiff, Viridis Laboratories, says has cost state cannabis businesses more than $230 million.
Curaleaf dispensary workers in Skokie, Illinois voted overwhelmingly to join Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
