OK to Exhale…Cannabis Comm Finally Gets a Leader

October 29, 2024
AggregatedNews
Compliance and Regulations, Massachusetts, News & Insights
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Months of suspense are over. State cannabis regulators have picked their next executive director, voting Monday to begin the process of bringing back a former head of its government affairs operation to lead the entire agency into a new chapter.…

Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

September 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
News & Insights, Spotlight, Standards and Certification
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The introduction of regulated medical and adult-use cannabis markets was supposed to guarantee that legal weed was clean weed, but somewhere along the line that message got reinterpreted as legal weed is tested weed, which is supposed to mean the…

Metrc CEO Michael Johnson Talks Retail ID and Securing the Cannabis Supply Chain

September 3, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Seed-to-Sale, Spotlight
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Earlier this month, Lakeland, FL.-based Metrc announced the launch of Metrc Retail ID, "a new solution designed to enhance supply chain transparency, bolster compliance, simplify brand processes, and reduce labor for retailers and brands through item level identification with serialized…

Why Cannabis Testing and Labeling Standardization Is Long Overdue

September 3, 2024
Steven Schain
Compliance and Regulations, Lab Testing, Packaging, Standards and Certification
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By Steven Schain Imagine if beer’s testing and labeling requirements differed in every state in which the beverage is sold. While legal in 38 states, each cannabis jurisdiction has its own, and often conflicting, testing and labeling laws. Thus, unlike…

NY Cannabis Control Board Approves 100+ Licenses at Contentious Meeting

July 11, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, New York, News & Insights
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A somewhat stressed out but productive New York Cannabis Control Board held a monthly public meeting on Tuesday, July 10 – aka 7/10, a cannabis concentrates holiday – to address a full agenda of items that included over 100 applications…

In Hawaii, Hope Springs Eternal Following Adult-Use Defeat

June 18, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, Spotlight
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As the dust settles following the recent failure of Hawaiian state legislators to pass legislation regulating the sale of adult-use cannabis, licensed operators are once again left wondering what the future holds not just for the so-called recreational use of…

Cannabis Regulators and Stakeholders Meet Again

June 10, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hemp Industry News, Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Last week, the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA) held an external stakeholders meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota that brought the nation’s cannabis dealers (i.e. the regulators) together to commiserate with 175 "attending organizations" that represent the interests of constituencies within the cannabis…

CT Cannabis/Hemp Bill Nears House Vote (UPDATED)

April 4, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Connecticut, News & Insights
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Fresh off its passage by the General Law Committee, a substitute for HB5150 – An Act Concerning Cannabis and Hemp Regulation – received a favorable report by the Legislative Commissioner’s Office of the Connecticut General Assembly on Tuesday, and was…

Hawaii House Advances Bill That Regulates ‘Entire’ Cannabis Plant

March 21, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Hawaii, News & Insights
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Legalized adult use in Hawaii took another step forward Tuesday when a key House committee advanced SB3335, a bill that aims to kill two cannabis birds with one stoner piece of legislation. Following a public hearing that lasted well over…

The ‘Simple People’ Are Legislating in CT

February 27, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Connecticut, News & Insights
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Connecticut legislators were unprepared for the large number of people who showed up last Thursday to testify before the General Law Committee and had to move the proceedings to a larger chamber to accommodate everyone. It was a simple mistake…

CT Bill Would Prohibit Cannabis Discounts

February 26, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Connecticut, News & Insights
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421 bills have thus far been introduced for consideration by Connecticut’s General Assembly in the 2024 legislative session, which was convened February 7 and runs until May 8. Among the bills are half a dozen that deal in some way…

Who Do You Call to Sniff Out Bad Cannabis Actors?

February 6, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, News & Insights, Security, Spotlight
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For anyone who has traveled the cannabis industry for any length of time, the risks associated with getting in bed with the wrong partners are about as acute as they can get, and truth be told, almost no one escapes…

Final NY Regulator Meeting of 2023 Gets Testy

January 2, 2024
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, New York, News & Insights
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The emergency meeting of New York’s Cannabis Control Board (CCB) called for last Friday (December 29) started 20-minutes late, a seeming eternity, but that was forgotten as soon as the meeting began and it became clear that something was off…

Deadline for NY Adult-Use Applications Passes (UPDATED)

December 19, 2023
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, New York, News & Insights
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The 5pm ET deadline to submit applications for five license types for New York State’s adult-use cannabis market came and went yesterday, with a robust last-minute rush as anticipated. The license types – cultivation, processor, retail dispensary, distributor, and microbusiness…

Judge Approves ‘Fiore’ Settlement, Ending Injunction

December 2, 2023
Tom Hymes
Compliance and Regulations, Letters to the Editor, New York
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That penetrating sound emanating from New York Friday evening was the collective sigh of relief from hundreds of provisional CAURD licensees upon hearing the news that Supreme Court Judge Kevin Bryant has signed the stipulated settlement that had been reached…

OK to Exhale…Cannabis Comm Finally Gets a Leader

Fighting Dirty Weed Through OCal Cannabis Certification

Metrc CEO Michael Johnson Talks Retail ID and Securing the Cannabis Supply Chain

Why Cannabis Testing and Labeling Standardization Is Long Overdue

NY Cannabis Control Board Approves 100+ Licenses at Contentious Meeting

In Hawaii, Hope Springs Eternal Following Adult-Use Defeat

Cannabis Regulators and Stakeholders Meet Again

Hawaii House Advances Bill That Regulates ‘Entire’ Cannabis Plant

Who Do You Call to Sniff Out Bad Cannabis Actors?

Final NY Regulator Meeting of 2023 Gets Testy

Deadline for NY Adult-Use Applications Passes (UPDATED)

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