Where are Massachusetts’ adult use retailers?
No medical treatment center, cultivator, product manufacturer, retailer, transporter, or independent testing laboratory can have more than three licenses in each category.
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In 2022, where are Michigan’s legal cannabis dispensaries?
The cities with the most retail licenses – at 50 each – are Ann Arbor and Bay City, tied for first place.
Cannabis retail sales slightly down in many Midwest, Eastern states
Industry experts like CannaBizIL executive director Pamela Althoff says May’s slight sales decrease isn’t a sign of bad things to come, but likely because workers returning to the office are consuming less cannabis than they would in the privacy of their own homes.
After year-long license delay, third of Illinois craft growers scrambling to find locations
Eighteen locations have addresses listed as “New Location to be Determined,” meaning a third of businesses have to find another place to do business.
New scientifically significant study answers why consumers stay in the underground cannabis market
“Consumers viewed legal cannabis as a superior product to illegal cannabis, suggesting that even a slightly higher legal price than illegal could still encourage consumer transition to the legal market,” researchers found.
Here’s where the cannabis patients are and how much they spend
For the states that have sales numbers publicly available, Grown In analyzed the average amount of money each patient spent in April 2022.
April cannabis sales in newer markets made huge monthly wins
reflected that enthusiasm from patients and the public. But other states that have been in the game for longer only saw nominal changes in retail sales since March, and one actually decreased year-over-year.
Here’s the law on how states in our coverage area hand out cannabis licenses
To better understand how each state works, we contacted regulators and local experts to explain how states dole out cannabis licenses.
Adult use cannabis enacting laws come from voter initiatives, mostly
“Getting these questions on the ballot in a year where there’s a presidential election typically is more beneficial for the outcome. Higher voter turnout helps the cannabis perform.”
Lead testing limits in New Hampshire cannabis plants are over 8x the average vs. other states
Despite what one would expect from a patchwork of standards, not much varies state to state. But that’s not true for the threshold of lead, one of many cancer-causing metals, which are absorbed by cannabis plants through water and the environment.
