Connecticut’s Social Equity Council goes to closed session to decide votes on process
By October 2021, public comments had become a fixture of the Council’s monthly meetings, but not in this month’s meeting.
Massachusetts dispensary faces NLRB appeal after unionization vote fails
“At the start of this whole affair, 80% of the employees signed cards, authorizing the union to come in,” said INSA budtender Clark D’Agostino.
Bay State’s maturing market is growing tighter for new retail entrants
The total number of retail licenses with commence operation orders jumped from about 100 in January 2021, to 216 in April 2022.
Vermont regulators urge legal compliance ahead of license approvals
The Board also approved its first license for a cannabis testing lab, which went to Bia Diagnostics in Colchester.
Maine OCP seeks crackdown on improper packaging of illicit edibles
Maine currently has eight medical cannabis dispensaries, but that figure does not account for the over 3,000 licensed cannabis caregivers in the state, each of which are allowed to open medical cannabis store fronts.
Connecticut activists lament cannabis gifting event ban
The new state law outlaws gifting cannabis as a transaction, which means there is an exchange. Smaller interchanges, such as handing a joint to a random person with no expectation is still permitted.
CT adult use license lottery starts with web-based randomizer
The state will issue a total 12 provisional retail licenses, half of which will be reserved for social equity applicants who will have reduced application fees.
Misunderstanding over fire safety codes could be delaying Vermont licensing
Vermont defines “public buildings” – which must undergo fire safety approval – as all properties excluding owner-occupied single-family homes, daycares, and working farms.
Connecticut legislators approve mold standard regulations that are looser than neighbors
Originally both of the state’s cannabis labs used a threshold of 10,000 colony forming units per gram when testing flower for microbial. That testing standard matches Massachusetts.
After much deliberation, Rhode Island legalizes adult use cannabis
The state will automatically expunge all civil and criminal cannabis convictions by July 1, 2024, as per the new law. Adult use sales can begin as early as Dec. 1 and it eliminates medical cannabis fees.
