CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — After a barrage of complaints that only 21 companies made the cut for the upcoming lottery for 75 new marijuana dispensary licenses, Gov. JB Pritzker has announced companies that missed out will get a second chance at making the grade. Earlier this month, the state announced... Read more
A California-based cannabis company known for its celebrity partnerships, colorful marketing and crowd-drawing interiors is headed to Florida. COOKIES, headed up by Bay-area rapper Gilbert Anthony Milan Jr., or “Berner,” has acquired one of Florida’s 22 coveted medical marijuana treatment center licenses and plans to begin business in 2021.... Read more
A cannabis dispensary is suing state regulators over frustrations that the state has not acted on its application for over eight months. In a complaint and preliminary injunction filed in Suffolk Superior Court on Sept. 14, Northeast Alternatives asked the court to compel the Cannabis Control Commission to act... Read more
A Texas judge is blocking authorities from enforcing the state’s smokable hemp ban until a trial resolves the dispute between hemp producers and the health department. Travis County Judge Lora Livingston said in a ruling Thursday that the group of hemp producers suing state health authorities who enacted the... Read more
A Vermont legislative committee came to an agreement this week on a compromise bill that would legalize the commercial production and retail sales of cannabis in the state. The compromise reached by members of both the Vermont House of Representatives and the state Senate also establishes a framework for... Read more
You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Illinois / Governor’s team to meet to address complaints about marijuana licensing process in Illinois September 17, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment Amid a flurry of complaints that the marijuana licensing process is broken, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office announced... Read more
In a nondescript office park in Scottsdale, George Griffeth is getting ready. Seven-hundred-pound marble tables for high-precision scales, stainless-steel lab equipment, and a multi-thousand-dollar dishwasher are scattered about, set to be part of one of Arizona’s first state-approved medical marijuana testing facilities. Griffeth has been running a lab for two... Read more
Experts have been predicting marijuana legalization in Pennsylvania since at least as early as 2013, more than a year after the first few states in the U.S. legalized recreational adult use. The state didn’t make medical marijuana legal until 2016 and patients didn’t gain full access to medical marijuana in dispensaries until two years... Read more
Marijuana sales continue to set new records in Colorado, eight years after recreational use was legalized in the state. Sales topped $226 million in July, according to the Department of Revenue. Marijuana dispensaries were deemed essential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic and were allowed to remain open during the... Read more
Recreational marijuana sales just set a new record high – nearly $64 million worth of cannabis was sold last month. And as CBS 2’s Meredith Barack reported Tuesday evening, those numbers are expected to keep growing. At the Sunnyside dispensary at 436 N. Clark St. in River North, a lot... Read more
