Florida marijuana patients able to gobble up pot products
FloridaMarijuana Industry NewsMedical Marijuana September 3, 2020 0
Just one week after health officials signed off on guidelines for edible pot products, Florida’s largest medical marijuana operator on Wednesday began selling THC-infused brownies, cookies, chocolates and gel caps in Tallahassee. The edible products are appearing on shelves nearly four years after Floridians approved a 2016 constitutional amendment... Read more
Its time to fight back against illegal state and local cannabis laws.
MaineMarijuana Industry NewsOklahoma September 2, 2020 0
Until now, many states have treated participants within their legal cannabis industries as second-class citizens, depriving these businesses of certain constitutional protections that apply in any other marketplace. Conventional wisdom said that cannabis businesses were either so grateful to be operating in the light of day, in a legal... Read more
Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission makes major change to delivery licenses, targeted at improving social equity
Marijuana Industry NewsMassachusettsRecreational Marijuana September 1, 2020 0
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
Why Michigan’s Recreational Marijuana Industry Isn’t Helping Those Harmed by Drug Policies
Marijuana Industry NewsMichiganRecreational Marijuana September 1, 2020 0
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
Edibles could boost Florida’s medical marijuana sales by $200M annually
FloridaMarijuana Industry NewsMedical Marijuana September 1, 2020 0
The Florida Office of Medical Marijuana Use (OMMU) released long-awaited guidelines for medical marijuana edibles Wednesday night, three years after voters approved a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana and one year after state lawmakers lifted a ban on smokable medical marijuana. How quickly edibles will be available is uncertain... Read more
Florida quietly publishes medical marijuana edibles rules
FloridaMarijuana Industry NewsMedical Marijuana August 28, 2020 0
In 2015, a small group of Department of Health employees including Florida’s chief medical marijuana regulator, Christian Bax, and then-surgeon general Celeste Philip hopped on a plane to Denver. They linked up with the Colorado Department of Public Health to tour cannabis production facilities and see what a nascent... Read more
