PRESS RELEASE CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cresco Labs (CSE:CL) (“Cresco” or “the Company”), one of the largest vertically integrated multi-state cannabis operators in the United States, is excited to announce that its Mindy’s Kitchen brand has been ranked the top-selling edible in Nevada according to Headset, the first real-time data analytics and business intelligence platform for the […]
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First Look at Cannabis Consumer Retail Trends in Nevada
You might think that what happens in Vegas dispensaries stays in Vegas dispensaries. And surely some pot-shop shenanigans never do leave the Silver State’s biggest city. But the volume of flower sales? Market share for vapes? What kind of edibles Nevadans consume? That data and much more now is no longer secret, as cannabis market […]
Cresco Labs Announces Massive Expansion to California, Arizona and Nevada Product Line will be Available by End of Year
PRESS RELEASE (Chicago, IL) Midwest-based Cresco Labs announced acquisition and expansion plans today adding three new markets, one medical and two adult-access states, to their already impressive operational presence in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Cresco Labs will be launching vertically-integrated businesses in California, Arizona and Nevada with their product suite available in late 2018. With […]
How High Are Recreational Marijuana Taxes in Your State?
As public opinion increasingly favors the legalization of recreational marijuana, a growing number of states must determine how to tax legal sales of cannabis. To date, nine states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington) and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana, but only eight of these jurisdictions have legal markets. […]
Questionable Licensing Issues Now Cropping Up In Ohio – ‘The Process Is Severely Broken’
As the regulatory process plays out across various states in the country – most importantly, in California where regulations and rules are coming right down to the wire (and maybe a little beyond) for the January 1, 2018 start of recreational – more and more issues are cropping up about the licensing process itself and […]
U.S. Cannabusinesses Watch And Wait While Canada’s Country-Wide Adult-Use Structure Gets Tweaked
In mid-April, Canadian lawmakers put forth cannabis legislation that would legalize adult use of cannabis on July 1, 2018, one of the campaign pledges of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015, which will make Canada just the second country that would legalize adult-use marijuana across the entire country (Uruguay did it in 2014). The country […]
Cannabis Shortages: Just the Norm?
With Nevada recently launching their highly anticipated recreational cannabis market in July, states are watching very closely at what they can learn from their neighbors and how to avoid key obstacles they’ve seen in getting these highly complex programs up and running. One of the big issues we’ve observed is the nationally covered “cannabis shortage” […]
Good Chemistry Nurseries enters Nevada market
PRESS RELEASE “a logical next step for us based on public support” Reno, NV (November 10, 2016) – On the heels of Nevada’s decision to legalize recreational Cannabis use, Good Chemistry Nurseries is bringing its award-winning nursery system and world-class product to Nevada with the launch of a new Reno production facility that will service […]
Marijuana Polls Show Support for Legalization in States Voting This Fall
Marijuana advocates are heading into the final weeks of the 2016 campaign with the wind at their backs as the latest polling shows legalization measures currently favored by voters in all five states where they’re on the ballot. This is something of a reversal from just a month ago, when the most recent polling had […]
New Study In Nevada Details Economic Benefits of Recreational Marijuana
Making recreational marijuana legal in Nevada would help eliminate black market sales and generate millions of tax dollars for education, representatives of an advocacy group said Tuesday. Speaking at the law offices of Ashcraft and Barr, 2300 W. Sahara Ave., representatives of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol discussed a new economic study from […]
Contributions Mount for Nevada PAC Backing Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
A political action committee backing recreational marijuana legalization has recently seen a stream of green, as in cash. The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the pro-recreational marijuana PAC, has raised $285,500 this year, a June 11 filing with the secretary of state’s office shows. That number is nearly half of what the group raised […]
Nevada Trying to Make It Easier For Patients to Get Medical Marijuana
Instead of waiting as long as three months for access to medical marijuana dispensaries, prospective Nevada patients can now be approved on the same day thanks to a new Las Vegas-based Division of Public and Behavioral Health office. For medical marijuana officials, that’s a step in the right direction to establishing a healthy and safe […]
Will Nevada Supreme Court Revise Rules For Attorneys involved in Cannabis Businesses?
Although Nevada law allows the sale and use of medical marijuana, attorneys in the state could soon face punishment for professional misconduct if they get involved in the business. The Nevada Supreme Court is considering revising the rules of professional conduct for attorneys by adding a clause saying that the sale, use or possession of […]
Nevada Supreme Court Sides with Casino Worker Fired for Using Medical Marijuana
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled a Las Vegas casino worker is entitled to collect unemployment benefits after being fired for testing positive for marijuana. The justices said the downtown Las Vegas Club — which was shuttered last summer — failed to present its drug and alcohol policy to the court to show the worker […]
Is Nevada Marijuana Education Conference Really a Anti-Cannabis Rally?
What’s billed as a marijuana education conference next week by the University of Nevada, Reno is more like a state-sponsored, government-funded propaganda rally against legalization of the drug, say supporters of the state’s marijuana industry. And they think that if UNR is allowed to put on the event, they deserve equal time. The conference, titled […]
Launch of New Medical Cannabis CBD Products in Las Vegas
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Silver Sage Wellness in Las Vegas, Nevada, led by local philanthropists Jim and Pam Blasco, announced today the release of highly-effective and locally made medical cannabis products, which include capsules and syringes containing 2:1 ratios of cannabidiol (CBD) to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) cannabinoids. These products are part of a broader line […]
North Las Vegas Poised For a Medical Marijuana Boom
A $1 billion electric car plant and a futuristic transportation test track are among developments North Las Vegas hopes will pay off and diversify its economy. There’s another, greener, economic development that officials hope will fatten the city’s wallet. The city has received more state provisional licenses for growing and producing medical marijuana products than […]
Panel Warns That Medical Marijuana Poses a Workplace Problem in Nevada
Lack of clarity in Nevada’s medical marijuana law opens the door for litigation over employer requirements to accommodate workers who use medicinal marijuana, lawyers told a state advisory panel Wednesday. Edwin Keller Jr. and Robert Spretnak, labor and employment law attorneys, told the Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice that a constitutional amendment passed […]
