Coverage of Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
In addition to Rise, workers at Illinois dispensaries who voted this spring to join Local 777 earlier this year include Columbia Care’s Zen Leaf, PharmaCann’s Verilife, and Revolution Global’s Enlightened.
While Judge Balogh stated that the process could be more carefully examined, he determined that the court has no standing to reverse the process.
In some states, the energy cost of growing one ounce of cannabis indoors can be roughly the same as burning 7 to 16 gallons of gasoline.
“Learning information will help everyone in the industry and outside of it. Having knowledgeable people behind the counter matters.”
Assuming there are no further court-mandated delays, Illinois plans to issue dispensary licenses in three waves.
“You gave a population that represents 6 percent of the state 100 percent of all licenses this year.”
JARS claims that once adult use licenses are fully distributed, adult use businesses would outnumber medical facilities 6-1, creating a “death sentence” for medical provisioning centers.
License recipients were ordered by Judge Lisa Fabiano to halt plans for operations, including site pre-approvals, construction plans, labeling and packaging.
The status hearing, which involved nine different plaintiffs’ attorneys representing dozens of plaintiffs, was called to discuss what application and scoring materials state regulators should be required to release to the complainants.
Labs in Michigan must test for 60 different pesticides, 7 types of metal, foreign matter, potency, THC levels, and 41 different terpenes as required by the Cannabis Regulatory Agency.
