On Tuesday and Wednesday, Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency announced the forced permanent shuttering of one dispensary, a temporary shuttering of another, and $184,000 of fines levied across 11 dispensaries and a testing lab.
Right on time, the big Midwest states’ cannabis sales have plateaued. Also, medical sales in Michigan continue to plunge as Ohio and Missouri’s medical sales steadily grow.
A federal judge blocked New York from creating new justice-involved dispensary licenses from about a third of the state. But regulators are indicating they will issue licenses for the rest of the state later this month.
To get a picture of where Northeastern state medical programs stand, we had to scrape old regulator websites, rummage through archived PowerPoints, and recruit friendly state communications staff to help us find data.
Cannabis adult use will expand to two more states, Maryland and Missouri, according to unofficial election results following yesterday’s voting, while ballot measures in Arkansas, South Dakota, and North Dakota, failed.
We checked in with a group of Illinois dispensary license winners to learn about where they are in the process – and how soon we might begin to expect new dispensaries to open up.
Michigan and Massachusetts have a lot in common with the state of their cannabis markets: Both have seen record croptobers as well as rapidly declining adult use retail prices.
There’s a series of rumors floating around New York about exactly how the state plans to regulate the biggest, most lucrative cannabis licenses available and the rumors have been powerful enough that the biggest cannabis companies are relying on them to decide whether and how much to invest in New York’s market.
Last month Brian Hanna was appointed Interim Director of Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency. To give us a sense of his thinking, Hanna granted Grown In a one-on-one interview in his agency’s offices in Lansing.
The 903 applicants for 150 new dispensary licenses have little idea when they’ll receive notice of who wins a license – or much else.
