Coverage of Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
Illinois proudly cut the ribbon on the first operational craft grow facility this week, but after over a year since licenses went out, there has been little news of progress for most other craft grow licensees.
State data compiled for the study also found that while 546,000 people had been recommended to the program by a physician, less than half that number actually registered, and half that number again are active participants in the program.
While non-white ownership of dispenary licenses in Illinois vastly improved with the latest round of awards this summer, newly released hard numbers aren’t as rosy as expected, according to a newly released state report.
Last week a pair of attorneys who are also dispensary license holders, filed suit against the state, charging that the state’s ban on equity sales is unconstitutional and violates existing state law.
Illinois infuser license holders got a big shot in the arm this week as state regulators announced a revised guidance Tuesday that now allows infusers to produce vape cartridges.
The idea of smoking flower that has been dipped in hydrogen peroxide or blasted with gamma radiation might seem like the fodder of awful science fiction, the practice is widespread enough that most casual consumers of legal adult use cannabis have been exposed to it.
Retail adult use cannabis prices in Michigan are half of what they were a year ago and newly reported data from state regulators suggest they have even further to drop this year.
Moratoriums on new grow licenses and eliminating existing excess grower licenses in Michigan are popular options among operators and advocates based on public commentary before the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA), Wednesday morning.
Two unions are racing each other to organize cannabis workers, and they’re not working together, creating an unspoken line of strife within the labor movement.
For years, the prospect of selling adult use cannabis in Detroit has been just over the horizon, dangling out of grasp, tantalizing in its inobtainedness.
