Detroiters seeking to repeal cannabis ordinance repealed have efforts stopped by city officials
Detroit’s April ordinance was its second attempt at legalizing adult use sales after a federal judge struck down the first ordinance in 2021.
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Illinois awards 48 craft grow licenses to social equity applicants, all veteran-led
42% of the licenses are majority Black-owned, 36% are majority White-owned, 8% (4) are majority Hispanic-owned, and 8% are owned by a partnership group.
Although they’re not quite in hand, Illinois dispensary license winners begin plotting next moves
Licensees that have been waiting over two years are planning out how to move forward with their business aspirations.
New Ohio dispensary licensees plan their next moves
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy awarded 72 new RFA II provisional dispensary licenses last Monday, more than doubling the number of current licenses in the state.
Illinois judge lifts stay on awarding 185 dispensary licenses, mostly social equity applicants
“The two orders previously ordered, stays, have been lifted,” said Cook County Circuit Court Judge Michael Mullen. But the licenses won’t be awarded until another federal case is resolved.
With only three licensed testing labs, Ohio testers work to keep up
Ohio has only three licensed cannabis labs serving 37 cultivators and 46 processors.
Ohio activists trying to find a new path to expand cannabis access before 2023
Some in the cannabis industry say they accept the agreement for what it is, like CannaRev Solutions founder Greg May, but believe that more should be done in the meantime.
185 Illinois adult use dispensary licenses might finally, officially be awarded this Friday
Long-time cannabis industry plaintiff WAH Group filed a motion this morning that would lift a July 2021 stay on awarding 185 adult use dispensary licenses.
Three Illinois social equity applicants secure permits to build craft grow locations
Until now, the state’s cannabis industry has been overwhelmingly white since the beginning of the state’s medical program in 2015 and recreational use in 2020.
An Ohio cultivator seeks to dismiss Board of Pharmacy inquiry into illicit cannabis
According to the decision issued May 12, an investigator for the Board claims to have evidence to support that a truck drove from Utah to Ohio in March 2020 to deliver plants to Standard Wellness.
