Illinois: 75 cannabis shop licenses to be awarded in lottery that includes just 21 applicants; losing firms ‘shocked’ September 4, 2020 AggregatedNews Illinois 0 Comments State officials announced Thursday the next round of long-delayed and highly sought after cannabis dispensary licenses will be awarded in a lottery later this month. The 21 qualifying applicants for the 75 new licenses were informed after a global accounting… Read More→
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission makes major change to delivery licenses, targeted at improving social equity September 1, 2020 AggregatedNews Massachusetts 0 Comments State marijuana regulators have made alterations to the set of regulations that has been under development for months to allow delivery licensees to buy marijuana wholesale from cultivators and manufacturers, a change that one regulator said is key to equity… Read More→
Rhode Island opens application window for 6 new medical-marijuana dispensaries July 17, 2020 AggregatedNews Rhode Island 0 Comments Many of the 55 or so state-licensed cultivators who now grow medical marijuana for the three existing dispensaries have their eye on winning one of the licenses. The state Department of Business Regulation will begin accepting applications Friday from businesses… Read More→
Michigan marijuana industry licensed to grow over 500,000 plants July 15, 2020 AggregatedNews Michigan 0 Comments A rapidly growing number of marijuana plants are reaching toward high-wattage grow lights across Michigan. This has resulted in slowly decreasing retail prices for both medical and recreational marijuana. The price reductions come following a spike after the opening of… Read More→
Budget provision makes notable change to Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law June 15, 2020 AggregatedNews Pennsylvania 0 Comments Pennsylvania’s interim budget makes a notable change to the state’s 2016 Medical Marijuana Act. Tucked away in the 53-page bill that appropriates $25.8 billion in spending to carry government operations through Nov. 30, lawmakers added a provision that stipulates how revoked permits – of which only… Read More→
Day of reckoning could loom for some medical marijuana license holders in Oklahoma June 12, 2020 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Chris McAlvain and Matt Blackwood were going by the books on their first crop — especially with their combined savings on the line. They did their research, paid for their license, bought their equipment and cured their harvest for 40… Read More→
After veto, some Oklahoma medical marijuana businesses in license limbo June 8, 2020 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments At 61, Matthew Koontz came to Oklahoma from Michigan hoping to provide a boost for his retirement savings by making his play in Oklahoma’s medical marijuana industry as a grower, and eventually, a dispensary owner selling his own products. But… Read More→
Amendment would remove limit of medical marijuana licenses in Missouri May 10, 2020 AggregatedNews Missouri 0 Comments As a legislative probe into the rollout of Missouri's medical marijuana program has expanded into Gov. Mike Parson's office, a Neosho-area lawmaker is working to remove a cap on the number of medical marijuana licenses set by the state. Though… Read More→
Maine releases list showing who’s seeking marijuana business licenses March 16, 2020 AggregatedNews Maine 0 Comments After months of reviewing applications, the Office of Marijuana Policy on Friday made public for the first time the list of about 300 people who are applying for more than 200 state licenses to cash in on Maine’s long-awaited recreational marijuana market.… Read More→
‘This has been a disaster’: How did Missouri screw up medical marijuana licenses? March 5, 2020 AggregatedNews Missouri 0 Comments Missouri’s process for awarding medical marijuana licenses has been disappointingly deficient, to the detriment of patients who believe cannabis can relieve their pain. Voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2018 that cleared the way for medical marijuana in the state.… Read More→
Missouri faces complaints over how it licensed marijuana businesses. So who won? February 19, 2020 AggregatedNews Missouri 0 Comments As lawmakers meet again Wednesday to hear complaints about how medical marijuana business licenses were awarded, a review of Missouri records shows some of the country’s biggest pot chains and the board members of a state trade group were among… Read More→
Bill calling for secrecy in marijuana industry divides cannabis community in Maine February 11, 2020 AggregatedNews Maine 0 Comments Efforts to keep some marijuana license details secret has divided Maine’s cannabis community: some see secrecy as protection from rivals and theft, while others worry it will allow out-of-state raiders to take over the local adult-use market. But the industry is united… Read More→
Hundreds denied Missouri medical marijuana business licenses — and it’s not clear why January 26, 2020 AggregatedNews Missouri 0 Comments Leisa Stevens thought she had compiled a fairly competitive application to start growing cannabis on 30 acres near Kansas City International Airport. To get in on Missouri’s fledgling medical marijuana business, she scoured the state’s rules, hired an engineering firm… Read More→
Missouri begins announcing medical marijuana dispensary licenses one day early January 23, 2020 AggregatedNews Missouri 0 Comments On Thursday morning the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services began notifying hundreds of applicants for coveted medical marijuana dispensary licenses as to whether they would be permitted to sell cannabis inside highly secured retail facilities. Department spokeswoman Lisa… Read More→
California Suspends Hundreds of Marijuana Supply Businesses November 8, 2019 AggregatedNews California 0 Comments California has suspended 394 marijuana business permits in a move that critics say will temporarily reduce the number of legal cannabis shops in the state. The suspension affecting about 5% of California's legal cannabis supply chain comes after the businesses… Read More→