Marijuana use is on the rise among baby boomers in the United States, especially men, according to a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The findings appear to reflect changing attitudes toward cannabis across the country, study co-author Bill Jesdale, an assistant professor of population and quantitative... Read more
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 in the newly-legal industry. The way the Cannabis Control... Read more
Michigan is still grappling with how to implement its new legal recreational marijuana market. And it turns out during the pandemic, the market is booming. As Michigan’s recreational marijuana market expands, many communities are trying to build social equity measures into their licensing process. The goal is to give people who have... Read more
Nevada’s Cannabis Compliance Board is implementing stricter procedures after holders of some 70 marijuana business licenses had past due taxes or didn’t renew their licenses on time. Board Executive Director Tyler Klimas said that out of more than 700 marijuana licenses in the state, about 560 were due for... Read more
The mayor on Tuesday threw his support behind the governor’s call to legalize the drug for recreational use. Wolf’s proposal would have hundreds of millions of dollars in CARES Act funding as well as additional tax revenue from the marijuana sales going to loan and grant programs for small businesses impacted... Read more
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is calling on the legislature to legalize recreational marijuana in an effort to help businesses and individuals hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. During a press conference on COVID-19 recovery, Gov. Wolf called on the legislature to legalize recreational marijuana with the proceeds going to... Read more
The Arizona Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for voters to decide on legalizing marijuana. The court unanimously rejected a legal challenge to the Smart and Safe Arizona Act, ensuring it can appear on the ballot in November. The order was just part of a flurry of decisions and announcements... Read more
As fiscal 2020 drew to a close in June, Massachusetts marked a milestone: $122 million in tax revenue had been collected in the first two fiscal years of recreational cannabis sales. Where has that money gone? According to a Business Journal analysis of state data, the money has supported... Read more
President Donald Trump hosted a campaign rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin the same night the Democratic National Convention was scheduled to kick off in Milwaukee. While Democrats instead opted for a virtual conference to avoid spreading the coronavirus, Trump drew a crowd of at least 1,000 people. In off-the-cuff remarks, Trump... Read more
With less than 80 days until Election Day, the campaigns for and against New Jersey marijuana legalization have been eerily quiet. What has been a wall-to-wall media blitz in other states has been barely a blip on the New Jersey political spectrum, ever since the state Legislature last year... Read more
