Authors: Ian A. Stewart and William S. Cook Michigan has adopted new legislation that unintentionally may make Michigan cannabis companies and their insurers scramble to determine how to comply with onerous regulations around mandatory product liability insurance. Without materially consulting the insurance industry on the feasibility of new insurance... Read more
Michigan has collected about $271 million in legal, adult-use marijuana tax revenue since 2019, according to a new report from the Marijuana Policy Project that analyzed tax revenue in states with adult-use cannabis since 2014. In March 2021, the Michigan Treasury described what adult-use cannabis taxes collected in fiscal year 2020 will... Read more
Ryan Allway January 5th, 2022 Positive Net Income of $0.43M, before fair value adjustments Q4 2021 Revenue of $3.76M versus $3.03M in Q3 2021, an increase of 24% Q4 2021 aEBITDA1 margin of 30% ($1.14M), versus 25% ($0.77M) in Q3 2021, an increase of 48% ($0.37M) Michigan operations (through Golden... Read more
A Public Health and Safety Bulletin published on November 17 announced that any products tested by either Viridis Laboratories, LLC or Viridis North, LLC, between August 10, 2021, and November 16, 2021, would be recalled while the Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) investigated. Now, new developments are being made involving... Read more
Michigan Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray has lifted a portion of the state’s widespread marijuana recall, saying a segment of it was “in all likelihood based upon an arbitrary decision.” On Nov. 17, the Marijuana Regulatory Agency recalled products tested by Viridis Laboratories and Viridis North because of... Read more
Gage Growth Corp. Announces Record Third Quarter 2021 Results and Provides Business Update Record Q3 2021 revenue of $27.2 million, an increase of 119.6% YoY and 3.2% quarter over quarter Announced proposed arrangement pursuant to which TerrAscend Corp. will acquire all of the issued and outstanding subordinate voting shares of... Read more
Gage Growth Corp. Announces US$55 Million Senior Secured Debt Financing Provides Maximum Flexibility to Execute on Gage’s Growth Strategy, Including Near-Term Retail Acquisition Opportunities DETROIT, and TORONTO, Nov. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Gage Growth Corp. (“Gage” or the “Company”) (CSE: GAGE) (OTCQX: GAEGF), a leading high-quality premium cannabis brand... Read more
Tens of millions of dollars worth of marijuana was recalled from more than 400 dispensaries in Michigan because the lab that tested the cannabis produced inaccurate or unreliable results, according to the state’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA). It’s the largest recall in state history and involves thousands of pounds... Read more
A series of bills currently under consideration in the Michigan legislature would yield enormous changes to medical cannabis caregivers in the state. The proposals have touched a nerve with advocates and medical cannabis customers in the Wolverine State, some of whom are reportedly “boycotting the major cannabis producers that... Read more
Detroit voters overwhelmingly approved Proposal E on Tuesday, to decriminalize naturally occurring psychedelic drugs including mescaline, ayahuasca, psilocybin and dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Proposal E, which was approved by 61 percent of the city’s voters, makes the personal possession and therapeutic use of entheogenic plants and fungi such as psilocybin mushrooms... Read more