Cannabis cultivation is hard: Operators explain why
To better understand what makes cannabis cultivation so hard, Grown In conducted lengthy interviews with a half dozen cultivation operators across the Midwest. Here’s what they said.
Midwest
Coverage of Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
Missouri warns hundreds of cannabis license revocation
Missouri’s cannabis regulators issued a stark warning to licensees.
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News and nuggets for cannabis industry practitioners in the Midwest and beyond.
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Michigan’s monthly legal cannabis sales zoomed up $40 million in the month of March, as Illinois’ also increased by $34 million in the same period.
While regulators eye Delta-8, get ready for Delta-10, 7, and more, say lab scientists
Scientists warn that while regulators and legislators are in a stir about the Delta-8 molecule, many other unidentified cannabinoid molecules exist with unknown medicinal or psychoactive properties.
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Revolution Global eyes expansion capital on eve of “flagship” retail opening
Revolution Global is “at the finish line” of negotiations that will fund the completion of a delayed 75,000 square-foot expansion to its Delevan-based cultivation facility.
Responding to white-dominated legal cannabis industry, organizers want you to “support your local weed man”
“What smart, intelligent person will pay thirty percent more for some weed that months ago, they were buying from the ‘hood for thirty to forty percent less?”
Two Illinois lawsuits move forward that could reveal inner workings of cannabis application scoring
Two lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Court are moving forward, each with the potential to reveal inner workings of the state’s stumbling cannabis license process.
Worm poop and infused fruit bouquet businesses spawn from Michigan’s Fluresh Accelerator
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