The High Rate of Dependence Among Medical Cannabis Users March 27, 2024 AggregatedNews Medical Marijuana 0 Comments The difference between medicinal and recreational marijuana has always been arbitrary. For example, after legalizing recreational cannabis, California initially required each cultivated seedling to be designated by growers as either a recreational or medicinal cannabis plant. From that point onward,… Read More→
Virginia Legislation Details Micro Business Funding Criteria for Retail Cannabis Market March 27, 2024 AggregatedNews Virginia 0 Comments Virginia’s plan for a recreational cannabis market includes a way to help micro-businesses, formerly known as the social equity license, get involved with what is anticipated to be a multimillion-dollar business — if the plan survives the governor’s desk. The… Read More→
California Cannabis Litigation: Threats of License Loss and Injunctions March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments By Kristin Westphal, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski, An injunction is a request to the court for immediate relief from harm or potential harm. Its purpose is to stop harmful activity, prevent future misconduct or maintain the status quo during the… Read More→
A Legal Pot Pioneer Was Busted in Idaho With 56 Pounds. He Has a Plan. March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews Industry People 0 Comments In retrospect, the Idaho shortcut might have been a bad idea. The mission had already begun to go sideways when Dana Beal — a pioneer of New York’s marijuana legalization movement but someone who has never obtained a driver’s license… Read More→
MedMen’s fall shows the difficulties of the legal weed business March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews Retail 0 Comments In the summer of 2018, MedMen opened a boutique cannabis dispensary on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice — “the coolest block in America,” as the company hyped in a press release at the time. With natural light pouring through floor-to-ceiling windows… Read More→
Biden, at risk with young voters, is racing to shift marijuana policy March 26, 2024 AggregatedNews Federal 0 Comments Vice President Kamala Harris looked up from prepared remarks in the White House’s ornate Roosevelt Room this month to make sure the reporters in the room could hear her clearly: “Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.”… Read More→
Voters in South Dakota try for a third time to approve recreational marijuana March 25, 2024 AggregatedNews South Dakota 0 Comments On Saturday, March 23, South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws (SDBML) organized a statewide "Petition Sign & Drive" event to gather support for a proposed 2024 cannabis legalization ballot measure. The initiative aims to collect 17,508 signatures by May 7… Read More→
New York’s Marijuana Scorecard: 85 Legal Shops, 2,000 Illegal Ones March 24, 2024 AggregatedNews Black Market, New York, Retail 0 Comments The lack of legal dispensaries and the overwhelming proliferation of illegal ones are the biggest concerns of the rollout three years after legalization. After three years of fits and starts, the rollout of New York’s recreational cannabis market gained speed… Read More→
Lab tests show THC potency inflated on retail marijuana in Colorado March 24, 2024 AggregatedNews Colorado 0 Comments Cannabis flower sold in Colorado claims to contain much more tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, than it actually does, according to my findings published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One. THC is the psychoactive compound that is derived when cannabis flower – commonly referred… Read More→
They Signed Up to Grow Weed. Then New York State Pushed Them Into the Black Market March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews Cultivation, New York 0 Comments Weed legalization was supposed to prioritize mom-and-pop businesses — but for some upstate farmers, things didn't go as planned Just a few months before this, the deal would have seemed impossible: New York’s longtime underground growers, excluded from receiving the… Read More→
Germany’s plan to liberalize cannabis rules clears its final parliamentary hurdle March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews Germany 0 Comments The German government's plan to liberalize rules on cannabis cleared its final parliamentary hurdle Friday, paving the way for the possession of limited amounts of marijuana to be decriminalized on April 1. In a second step, “cannabis clubs” that will be allowed… Read More→
New York’s Marijuana Scorecard: 85 Legal Shops, 2,000 Illegal Ones March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews New York 0 Comments After three years of fits and starts, the rollout of New York’s recreational cannabis market gained speed in 2024, most notably with the opening of about 50 licensed dispensaries so far this year. But the licensed retailers, who number about… Read More→
FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose March 22, 2024 AggregatedNews Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana 0 Comments The FDA released a report saying that marijuana does have a legitimate use for medical purposes and recommended the US Drug Enforcement Agency change its classification from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3. “The definition of a schedule 1 drug says… Read More→
Yellen would welcome US legislation to aid cannabis banking access March 21, 2024 AggregatedNews Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Federal 0 Comments U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday she would welcome legislation that would rectify the conflict between federal and state laws on the sale and use of marijuana that is preventing cannabis firms from accessing the banking system. Asked… Read More→
After voting to legalize weed, Marylanders are mixed on impact, poll finds March 21, 2024 AggregatedNews Maryland 0 Comments Voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 2022 to allow recreational cannabis sales, but a March poll shows mixed feelings Maryland voters resoundingly approved legalizing recreational marijuana but are divided over the impact as recreational use approaches the one-year mark, according to… Read More→