Pennsylvania Runs Out Of Medical Marijuana Less Than Two Weeks In Program March 5, 2018 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments Too much demand. Not enough supply. Less than two weeks after it was launched, Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program is a victim of its own success. The two open marijuana dispensaries in the Philadelphia region reported Friday that they had sold out… Read More→
Medical Marijuana Hits The Pennsylvania Market With High Prices And High Demand February 26, 2018 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments Limited quantities, sticker shock, and some mislabeled product. The first week of medical marijuana sales in Pennsylvania was marked by these birthing pains. On the whole, retailers and the Department of Health said the launch of the nascent industry —… Read More→
Medical Marijuana Products Scheduled To Go On Sale Tomorrow In Pennsylvania February 14, 2018 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments The first sales of medical marijuana products to patients are scheduled for Thursday, two years after Gov. Tom Wolf signed Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program into law. Cresco Yeltrah’s CY+ dispensary in Butler has its first appointments scheduled for Thursday morning… Read More→
Pennsylvania Opens State’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary January 18, 2018 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments “Welcome to the 21st Century,” Tony Iannelli, CEO and president of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, said as he ushered in the opening of Pennsylvania’s first medical marijuana dispensary Wednesday morning. Located on an otherwise quiet street in… Read More→
Pennsylvania’s MMJ Program Expects Shakeup With Recreational Marijuana In New Jersey November 27, 2017 AggregatedNews New Jersey, Pennsylvania 0 Comments New Jersey is almost certain to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use within a year, and that’s sure to have major repercussions on Pennsylvania’s nascent medical cannabis industry. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy ran on a platform calling for full legalization of all… Read More→
Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Program On Track – Temporarily October 25, 2017 David Hodes Pennsylvania, Policy & Legal 2 Comments The Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA-DOH) has been busy drafting temporary regulations for its medical marijuana program since June 25, 2016. But it appears to be making good headway towards a target of completing all regulations between now and the… Read More→
Pennsylvania Gives First Legal Marijuana Grower the OK to Begin October 18, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments A medical marijuana grower/processor in western Pennsylvania became the first state licensee Tuesday to receive the go-ahead to begin production. Cresco Yeltrah in Jefferson County, northeast of Pittsburgh, is one of 12 grower/processors licensed for Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program, the state Department… Read More→
Want to grow marijuana? Company selling permit for $20M October 6, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments For sale: One never-used permit to grow medical marijuana in the state of Pennsylvania. Includes a turnkey operation with a 47,000-square-foot former beverage warehouse in Reading outfitted with state-of-the-art cultivation pods and hash-oil processing equipment. Price: $20 million. Rumors have been circulating… Read More→
Legal Challenges Could Delay Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Program September 21, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments HARRISBURG -- A state lawmaker and advocates who fought to get medical marijuana legalized in Pennsylvania say a rejected applicant for a dispensary and grower licenses should drop its effort to get the state’s program halted. In a lawsuit filed… Read More→
“Bizarre”, “Capricious”, “Secretive” – Lawsuit Says Pennsylvania Licensing Officials Should Rescind All Awarded Licenses September 13, 2017 David Hodes Pennsylvania, Policy & Legal 0 Comments In a five-count lawsuit filed September 8 against the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Office of Medical Marijuana (PDHOMM) dispensary license applicant Keystone Releaf, LLC, is seeking to review the department's “systemically flawed, inequitable and unconstitutional process” for accepting, reviewing and… Read More→
Lessons Learned From the First Phase of Pennsylvania’s Marijuana Program September 2, 2017 Steven Schain Compliance and Regulations, Pennsylvania 1 Comment With the dust settling and fuzzy math shrieks abating, Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program's first phase has drawn to a close. Or has it? Denying 408 applications and demanding its 12 grower/processor and 27 dispensary licensees construct statutorily compliant facilities within… Read More→
Pennsylvania Dispensaries Have Their Permits, Now Doctors Must Get Certified July 12, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments Since medical marijuana has been legalized in Pennsylvania, several businesses have received permits for dispensaries. But that doesn't mean the drug will be dispensed any time soon. The state is still hammering out regulations governing which doctors will dispense marijuana and which patients… Read More→
Buy your medical cannabis here; Pa. announces dispensary sites June 29, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments The Pennsylvania Department of Health yesterday announced the names of 27 companies that will be permitted to sell medical marijuana across the state next year, notching another milestone in a program that could lead to cannabis being available by 2018.… Read More→
Here’s a Quick Look into Pennsylvania’s Budding Medical Marijuana Industry June 27, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments WOODBRIDGE, N.J. - Sarah Drum saw the medical marijuana industry coming to New Jersey and jumped at the chance to be there from the beginning. Her workplace, a former chain electronics store, used to be the place people came to… Read More→
Pa. awards 12 licenses to grow medical marijuana June 20, 2017 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments Pennsylvania officially launched its medical marijuana industry Tuesday, awarding licenses to 12 growers, including two firms in Berks County, but none in Philadelphia or its suburbs. Many of the winning firms featured political and financial heavyweights linked to out-of-state cannabis… Read More→