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North Carolina tribe may legalize recreational marijuana use, expand dispensary sales

July 17, 2023
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Native American Tribal Lands, North Carolina
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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will soon vote on whether to legalize adult use of marijuana on tribal lands in North Carolina. If the measure passes, the tribe’s 57,000-acre Qualla Boundary in the western part of the state would…

New York’s weed pioneers detail their struggles

New York’s fledgling weed entrepreneurs initially felt like they’d won the golden ticket, securing the right to open up the first legal recreational shops in what’s expected to be one of the world’s biggest cannabis markets. The opportunity seemed all…

Nevada Lawmakers Pass Marijuana Reforms Bill

Nevada lawmakers last week passed an omnibus marijuana reforms bill that increases the possession limit on cannabis and gives licensed dispensaries new flexibility to serve both medical marijuana patients and adult-use cannabis customers. The measure, Senate Bill 277, received final…

First Black-owned, legacy Detroit marijuana dispensary opens

More than four years after Detroiters overwhelmingly voted to approve recreational marijuana sales, the city's first “legacy Detroit” Black-owned recreational marijuana dispensary opened Saturday as part of the city's social equity program. Nuggets Dispensary's opening at 18270 Telegraph is the result…

D.C. To Start Inspecting Marijuana Gifting Stores For Health Code And Tax Violations

D.C. regulators will start inspecting marijuana gifting stores in September for health code, tax, and licensing violations, potentially increasing the pressure on businesses that some local legislators say have been skirting the law and undermining the city’s regulated medical marijuana dispensaries. According…

South Dakota’s first recreational marijuana dispensary

When people think of marijuana in South Dakota, one name looms large. Flandreau; or more specifically, Native Nations Cannabis in Flandreau, owned and operated by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. But they aren’t the only game in the market in…

New craft cannabis licenses issued amid ongoing turmoil in Illinois marijuana industry

Illinois has begun issuing new craft grow cannabis licenses, and a judge has authorized the state to hold a corrective lottery for dispensary applicants that filed lawsuits challenging the licensing process. Those two developments mark small but significant steps in…

It’s taking longer than expected for N.J.’s 13th legal weed dispensary to open. Here’s why.

Unlike its competitors, the Curaleaf-owned medical marijuana dispensary in Edgewater Park did not open its doors to customers seeking to buy adult legal weed during the state’s big launch on April 21. Instead, a police officer patrolled the Edgewater Park site and…

Black entrepreneurs in Missouri are shut out of the medical marijuana business

January 26, 2022
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Missouri
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Black entrepreneurs are being left out of the booming medical marijuana business in Missouri. And the state is losing some of its brightest entrepreneurial minds as a result. But an initiative to place recreational pot on the ballot in November…

Maine’s largest medical marijuana dispensary group asks to join residency lawsuit

November 2, 2020
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Maine
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Wellness Connection, which owns four of eight licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Maine, filed a motion on Thursday to fight a lawsuit against the state from two small marijuana businesses over recreational cannabis licenses granted to businesses with some out-of-state…

Popular California marijuana company, “Cookies”, gets Florida license, prepared to open in 2021

September 22, 2020
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Florida
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A California-based cannabis company known for its celebrity partnerships, colorful marketing and crowd-drawing interiors is headed to Florida. COOKIES, headed up by Bay-area rapper Gilbert Anthony Milan Jr., or “Berner,” has acquired one of Florida’s 22 coveted medical marijuana treatment…

CEO of Vermont medical marijuana backer iAnthus Capital resigns amid financial scandal

The CEO of the company behind one of Vermont's five licensed medical marijuana dispensaries has resigned following allegations that he used the company's resources for personal benefit. Hadley Ford, CEO of iAnthus Capital, immediately submitted his resignation after a special…

Boston’s first recreational marijuana dispensary will open Monday

Nearly 40 months since Massachusetts voted to legalize marijuana, Boston is getting its first recreational pot shop. Pure Oasis, an adult-use marijuana dispensary located in the Grove Hall neighborhood of Dorchester, announced that it plans to open Monday at 11…

Utah’s first marijuana pharmacy opens in Salt Lake City

March 3, 2020
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Utah
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Utah’s first medical cannabis pharmacy opened Monday, giving patients a long-awaited legal option for buying marijuana treatments without venturing outside the state and sneaking the products back to their homes. The debut of Dragonfly Wellness at 711 State St. in Salt…

Florida firm rolls up 15 dispensary permits in Pennsylvania

Jushi Holdings Inc., the Florida-based cannabis company that bought out Beyond/Hello’s four Pennsylvania permits in July, announced today that it was acquiring the majority interest in Agape Total Health Care Inc. Agape, of Lehigh County, won a permit from the…