Virginia governor vetoes marijuana market bill March 29, 2024 AggregatedNews Virginia 0 Comments A push to establish a legal marijuana market in Virginia is officially dead after Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed legislation on Thursday. Virginia has allowed adults over 21 to possess and cultivate cannabis at home since the Legislature passed legalization legislation in… Read More→
CDTFA Cannabis Creditor: Myths and Truths March 28, 2024 Hilary Bricken California, News & Insights 0 Comments By Hilary Bricken, Attorney at Husch Blackwell Dealing with creditors is never a fun experience. However, some creditors are more severe than others, especially in the cannabis industry. One of those is the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration… Read More→
If FL Supreme Court approves cannabis ballot language, will voters go for recreational weed or not? March 28, 2024 AggregatedNews Florida, News & Insights 0 Comments The long wait on whether Floridians will get a chance to vote to legalize recreational cannabis for adults 21 and older is almost over, as the Florida Supreme Court is on a hard deadline to rule on the proposed constitutional… Read More→
Missouri strips marijuana licenses connected to company accused of predatory behavior March 28, 2024 AggregatedNews Missouri 0 Comments Missouri’s health department on Wednesday stripped two coveted marijuana micro-licenses tied to an out-of-state company that had been accused of predatory practices and had listed the licenses for resale. The two micro-licenses, awarded to Seashore Rhythm, LLC in Arnold near… Read More→
Dug In: Big Island Grown’s Deep Cannabis Roots March 27, 2024 Tom Hymes Company Stories, Hawaii, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments Big Island Grown (BIG) is a vertically integrated cannabis company based in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii County, on the Big Island of Hawaii, whose reach now extends to several islands in the archipelago, with plans to develop more wholesale trade as the… Read More→
California’s Cannabis Industry Conundrum and the Road Ahead March 27, 2024 AggregatedNews California, News & Insights 0 Comments By Aaron Pelley, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski Despite continuously surpassing every other state with recreational cannabis in terms of total retail sales, California’s cannabis industry has faced continuous and far-reaching issues on multiple levels that have only spread even further.… 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→
Adult-Use Bill Barely Passes Divided Hawaiian House March 26, 2024 Tom Hymes Hawaii, News & Insights 0 Comments SB3335, a bill that would make Hawaii the last Democrat-controlled state to legalize adult-use cannabis, passed the full House on Friday by the slimmest of margins: 25-23. The legislation, which includes amendments from the Senate version, heads to the Finance… 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→