Illinois judge steps towards allowing regulators to award 60+ craft grow licenses
Judge Noll had issued her own stay on issuing licenses, but she plans to lift that stay today, she said in court on Thursday.
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Michigan testimony on remediated product labeling quickly turned to debate over requiring a kill step
The MRA had expressly asked for public comment on whether or not product remediation should be labeled on products, although it is already reported in Metrc for those who can look up by batch number.
In Illinois, depressed cannabis stock prices have cooled off big acquisitions
One big Illinois deal in particular seems to be stuck in neutral, Parallel’s planned acquisition of Windy City Cannabis. Announced in April 2021, the deal was to be for six Illinois dispensaries for $155 million.
Illinois sets policy on converting hemp to THC, but is it enforceable?
“It’s a policy that by all accounts is not being enforced…My belief right now is that the science is moving too fast for the regulators.”
Michigan union organizes state’s first dispensary, on track to a cultivation facility soon
“Being a union cannabis firm, we would get a lot of support from other unions in the area. There’s 650,000 active union members and million retired union members in Michigan. That’s a lot of potential customers.”
With legalization looming, Black Missourians worry about losing out in cannabis industry
With the state potentially on the verge of another vote this fall on whether to legalize recreational marijuana, many in the Black community fear being shut out yet again.
Illinois regulatory consolidation bill quietly introduced – with administration fingerprints all over it
“It’s something that’s been discussed and a priority of the current [Cannabis Regulation Oversight Officer], I think she’s been working on it for a while.”
Second medical use expansion bill passes an Ohio legislative chamber
Last December, a more comprehensive effort to expand medical use, SB261, passed the Senate 26-5.
Michigan’s biggest cannabis cultivators question state’s right to create small cultivation licenses
Today there are only seven operating Microbusinesses, which allow 150 plants. The new Class A type would allow 500 plants.
“Months” likely before Ohio’s 73 new dispensary licenses will be awarded
“Several months is what we expected for the process to take. That’s what different members of the industry have talked about.”
