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A year after first two recreational marijuana shops opened in Massachusetts, a mostly warm buzz

Marijuana Industry News Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Recreational Marijuana November 20, 2019 0

A year after the first recreational marijuana shops opened in Massachusetts, cannabis product sales have generated nearly $3.5 million in combined taxes and fees and a generally warm buzz for the first two towns to allow it. The revenue represents the first full year’s worth of the collected 3%... Read more

Cannabis Legalization Roundup: Mexico, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Recreational Marijuana Uncategorized November 20, 2019

We like to check in from time to time on what’s happening with marijuana legalization around the world. To date, there are something like 40 countries that have legalized marijuana for medical use. Many more countries have decriminalized marijuana in various amounts, and a few have straight up “legalized” recreational marijuana. Among these bellwethers, South…

Michigan awards first marijuana licenses, paving way for December 1 sales

Marijuana Industry News Michigan Recreational Marijuana November 19, 2019 0

The state’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency delivered the first five recreational marijuana licenses Tuesday, paving the way for sales of legal weed to anyone 21 or older. Licenses went to Exclusive Brands in Ann Arbor, which has a grow operation, a processing facility and a medical marijuana dispensary. Another went... Read more

Biden says marijuana may be a ‘gateway drug.’ Like most of his generation, he’s not ready to legalize it.

Marijuana Industry News Recreational Marijuana November 18, 2019 0

You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Biden says marijuana may be a ‘gateway drug.’ Like most of his generation, he’s not ready to legalize it. November 18, 2019 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment On the question of marijuana, former vice president Joe Biden might seem out... Read more

‘Epidemic’ of layoffs in California marijuana industry — CEO faults state for inaction

California Marijuana Industry News Recreational Marijuana November 14, 2019 0

Flow Kana isn’t the only cannabis company forced to make cuts. In recent weeks, companies like Eaze and Weedmaps have also laid off part of their workforce. “It almost feels like an epidemic of companies of similar size going through similar processes,” Steinmetz said. The layoffs reflect challenges in California’s fledgling recreational cannabis... Read more

Help wanted in Michigan’s projected billion-dollar-plus marijuana industry

Marijuana Industry News Michigan Recreational Marijuana November 13, 2019 0

Within two hours on a day following record snowfall in Michigan, a career fair seeking up to 100 employees for a proposed marijuana grow facility in Pontiac ran out of its 300 applications. A waiting list was created for the jobs that pay between $15 and $18 per hour with benefits... Read more

Will Neil Young’s Marijuana Use Keep Him From Becoming a U.S. Citizen?

Marijuana Industry News Recreational Marijuana November 13, 2019 0

Neil Young had a certain birthday present in mind this year: United States citizenship. Everything seemed to be in place for him to take his oath on Tuesday, his 74th birthday, the Canadian singer told The Los Angeles Times last month. Amid what he called a “climate emergency,” he was looking... Read more

Top 6 Growing Pains in California’s Cannabis Marketplace

California Medical Marijuana Recreational Marijuana Uncategorized November 12, 2019

Every state that’s legalized cannabis for adults 21-and-up has faced that moment or even series of moments that threatened to really derail or seriously stymie market development. California is at that crossroads and has been almost from the outset of the first issuances of cannabis licenses back in January 2018. California will, of course, eventually…

As Illinois Prepares To Legalize Pot, Public Housing Tenants Not Allowed To Partake

Illinois Marijuana Industry News Recreational Marijuana November 12, 2019 0

Recreational pot is about to become legal in Illinois, but Chicago’s Housing Authority says not in our backyard or front yard or anywhere on public housing premises, for that matter. Housing voucher recipients received a letter from the agency last week, warning them about the ramifications of smoking or... Read more

Michigan’s recreational marijuana market could open earlier than originally expected

Marijuana Industry News Michigan Recreational Marijuana November 9, 2019 0

As recreational licenses are being processed, Michigan’s prospective marijuana businesses are becoming eager, if not antsy, to begin growing, processing and selling legal weed to the general public. As of now, based on the current rules and the length of the marijuana grow cycle once businesses are licensed, there... Read more

A year after first two recreational marijuana shops opened in Massachusetts, a mostly warm buzz

Cannabis Legalization Roundup: Mexico, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Michigan awards first marijuana licenses, paving way for December 1 sales

Biden says marijuana may be a ‘gateway drug.’ Like most of his generation, he’s not ready to legalize it.

‘Epidemic’ of layoffs in California marijuana industry — CEO faults state for inaction

Help wanted in Michigan’s projected billion-dollar-plus marijuana industry

Will Neil Young’s Marijuana Use Keep Him From Becoming a U.S. Citizen?

Top 6 Growing Pains in California’s Cannabis Marketplace

As Illinois Prepares To Legalize Pot, Public Housing Tenants Not Allowed To Partake

Michigan’s recreational marijuana market could open earlier than originally expected

Federal cannabis lawsuit dismissal gets appealed (Newsletter: July 5, 2024)

Maryland Governor And NAACP President Say Marijuana Pardons Will Unlock Economic Opportunities For People Targeted By Criminalization

Arkansas Activists Submit Signatures To Put Medical Marijuana Expansion Initiative On November Ballot

Social Workers Push Biden To Fully Decriminalize Marijuana Under Federal Law, Not Just Reschedule It

New Florida Poll Shows Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure Winning As Campaign Releases Two New Ads

The Green Organic Dutchman Signs a Commercial Sublicense with EnWave and Tilray to Dry Cannabis in Canada