Coverage of Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
The warmer weather along with the gradual resumption of social activity, inspired many Michiganders to get their flower on this month, say Michigan cannabis operators.
Last week’s Grown In reporting roiled the state’s cannabis business community and will figure into at least two cannabis lawsuits against the state currently underway.
This week, Fraker’s office filed in court to block those new licenses.
As of last August, Illinois craft grow, infusion, and transport license applications had gone through two rounds of discrepancy vetting, state emails show. Seven months later they’re still not done.
Michigan’s legal cannabis sales have yet to surpass last July’s $109.5 million peak while Illinois’s sales met what seems to be a seasonal February drop.
In his quarterly public report yesterday Michigan’s chief cannabis regulator reported a fast pace of cannabis facility inspections now that Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted from state employees and a new focus on bringing laws for Delta-8-THC products in line with existing Delta-9-THC products.
Scoring for Illinois’ 2020 cannabis dispensary applications was conducted by about 40, briefly trained gig workers who were paid $35 an hour and worked from home for a subcontractor to global accounting firm KPMG.
The 2019 Illinois law that encouraged a budding multibillion dollar legal weed industry included the creation of the Community College Cannabis Vocational Program, which launched almost a dozen different higher education cannabis programs in Illinois.
An array of cannabis social equity advocates gathered Tuesday morning to trumpet their support of legislation they had been furiously negotiating over.
Missouri’s top cannabis regulator says they don’t have plans yet for when and how they will reissue the 29 medical marijuana licenses deactivated so far.
