Coverage of Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
The Ohio State Senate passed a cannabis bill that revises the state’s medical marijuana law, expands the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana, and consolidates regulation into a single agency.
An Illinois judge affirmed a stay barring the state’s regulators from awarding 60 craft grow licenses by a Dec. 21 statutory deadline and set a hearing schedule that guarantees the licenses won’t be awarded until well into 2022.
ll determine the future of 60 Illinois craft grow licenses will be heard in a Sangamon County courtroom Tuesday morning.
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.
Sixty craft grow licenses, set to be awarded by December 21, are held up by a judge’s order that has now become another judge’s jurisdiction.
“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.
This is the second big Midwest recall in four weeks, coming on the heels of the Michigan Regulatory Agency’s Nov. 17 recall.
“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.
