CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 6, 2022 – PRESS RELEASE – Green Thumb Industries Inc., a leading national cannabis consumer packaged goods (CPG) company and owner of RISE Dispensaries, announced that Richard Drexler, a proven financial executive who currently serves as chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee at Bison... Read more
Patient satisfaction with the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program (OMMCP), which recently hit $1 billion in sales, seems to be improving, according to a recent report from The Ohio State University’s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and the OMMCP. The report, “Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program at Four Years:... Read more
Patient satisfaction with the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program (OMMCP), which recently hit $1 billion in sales, seems to be improving, according to a recent report from The Ohio State University’s Drug Enforcement and Policy Center and the OMMCP. The report, “Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program at Four Years:... Read more
California officials announced on Wednesday that the state will be awarding up to $20 million in marijuana tax-funded grants to universities that carry out research into cannabis science and policy—including studies on preventing monopolies in the legal industry and securing the genetics of “legacy” strains. This is the second... Read more
FBI has spent the past seven years and millions of tax dollars working to update its crime statistics reporting system—and the end result for 2021 data is raising more questions than answers for people tracking drug enforcement trends including marijuana-related arrests. Still, the agency’s fragmented data on drug criminalization... Read more
More than 3,500 people applied for pardons for past cannabis convictions as part of a one-month Pennsylvania initiative spearheaded by the governor and lieutenant governor, a top state pardons official told Marijuana Moment on Wednesday. A final push from lawmakers and advocates drove about 1,000 applications in the final... Read more
Six years ago, just weeks before California voters legalized cannabis for adult recreational use, I visited a couple named Swami Chaitanya and Nikki Lastreto in a remote part of Mendocino County, where they’ve grown high-quality, organic cannabis for the medical marijuana market since 2003. We sat in the rustic... Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new Ohio State University study found that for the first time a majority of patients are satisfied with Ohio’s medical marijuana program. Prices, though, appear to still be a drawback, with patients saying they believe it still costs too much for medical marijuana in Ohio.... Read more
A large majority of registered voters in Maryland say they support legalizing recreational marijuana use, just weeks before voters will decide the question in the November election, a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds. Just under 3 in 4, or 73 percent, of Maryland voters favor legalizing “the use of cannabis” for... Read more
