Medical marijuana dispensaries in Philadelphia are rushing to repair damage caused by looters so they can reopen quickly and serve patients. But some owners say the state’s Department of Health, which regulates the industry, is throwing up roadblocks as they try to enhance security measures at their dispensaries to prevent any further “targeted attacks.” Seven […]
Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana
Coronavirus: Pennsylvania softens medical marijuana regulations, allows for curbside pickup
Yes, Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana stores are open to the state’s more than 147,000 registered patients during the coronavirus pandemic and patients can now use online ordering to accelerate the dispensing process. Pennsylvania health officials have said that food, medicine and banking services are considered essential and will remain open. And the state considers medical marijuana a […]
Medical marijuana ‘POS’ software crashes, preventing sales to sick patients in Pennsylvania
Medical marijuana patients across the state couldn’t buy medicines yesterday due to an update in a tracking software system that’s supposed to track sales, not prevent them. The Pennsylvania Department of Health requires all marijuana transactions to be processed through a software system called MJ Freeway. The seed-to-sale tracking software has been prone to chronic […]
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 Department of Health in December to operate three dispensaries in the Keystone State. Agape has […]
Steep Hill Pennsylvania Announces ISO 17025 Accreditation for Cannabis Testing
PRESS RELEASE STEEP HILL PENNSYLVANIA ISO/IEC 17025:2005 STATE LICENSED FOR CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TESTING June 28, 2018 – Berkeley, CA – Dr. Andrew Rosenstein, CEO of Steep Hill Pennsylvania, a licensed cannabis testing lab in Pennsylvania, announced today it received ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 accreditation by A2LA, an international accrediting agency recognized by governments and industry […]
Canna Business 101: Underpowered and Oversupplied
By Steven M. Schain They’re legalized marijuana’s “dirty little secrets;” grid-crashing energy demands and glut-producing price drops. Permitting only energy-intensive, indoor growing facilities, neither Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act, 35 P.S. Sections 10231.101-10231.2110 and regulations promulgated under (Pennsylvania marijuana law), nor the program’s regulatory agency [Department of Health (DOH)], provide for the increased electricity demand, grid […]
Pennsylvania Health Department Unveils New Guidelines for Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program expects to solicit applications from aspiring growers, processors and dispensaries in early 2017, health department officials said this week after unveiling draft regulations that will govern the outlets that sell cannabis. Since April 17, when Gov. Wolf signed the medical marijuana bill into law, the health department has granted “safe harbor” […]
Pennsylvania Proceeds With Medical Cannabis Implementation
Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania signed medical cannabis legislation into law on April 17, and the program has continued to be developed at a steady pace by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH). On October 25, DOH Secretary Karen Murphy provided updates on the implementation of Pennsylvania’s medical cannabis program at a press conference in the […]
From the Beginning: Pennsylvania’s Medical Cannabis Program
If you asked me five years ago if Pennsylvania’s state legislature would pass medical cannabis legislation with overwhelming support from both Republicans and Democrats, and that the legislation would be signed by a Pennsylvania Governor, I would have said, “No way…will never happen…” Well, it happened. Medical cannabis legislation and cannabis decriminalization legislation is nothing […]
How Pennsylvania Employers Deal With Workers Using Medical Marijuana
The Pennsylvania House and Senate have been abuzz in the last few weeks with SB3, the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Act, which was signed into law. Why is the Medical Marijuana Act important to Pennsylvania employers and employment law attorneys? Because employees have protections under this act in the workplace, and the law specifically sets forth […]
