California’s Local Marijuana Laws Fail to Heed Decades of Lessons from Tobacco Controls
CaliforniaMarijuana Industry News June 20, 2020 0
PRESS RELEASE Allowing high potency products, fruit flavored and candy-like products designed to attract youth, aggressive marketing, and a lack of accurate information has led to a market that fails to protect young people from marijuana health risks, says JAMA Network Open study Oakland, CA- A study published today... Read more
Meet The Team: Kaliko Castille – NCIA’s Director of Marketing
Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & PoliticsOregon June 19, 2020 0
Aloha! My name is Kaliko Castille and I am the Marketing Director here at NCIA. My name Kaliko is Hawaiian and means “the bud that blossoms”. It was the name given to my Dad when he was still living in Hawai’i and dancing hula under a well-known kumu hula... Read more
Bill to decriminalize marijuana just passed N.J. Assembly. Instead of arrest, a $50 fine.
Marijuana Industry NewsNew Jersey June 19, 2020 0
Lawmakers took a major step in halting arrests for weed Thursday, as they voted on a bill that would decriminalize possession of up to two ounces. The state Assembly voted 63-10 with five members abstaining to pass the measure (A1897), one of two decriminalization bills currently proposed in the... Read more
Louisiana Widening Access to Medical Marijuana Under New Law
LouisianaMarijuana Industry News June 17, 2020 0
BATON ROUGE, La. — More Louisiana residents will have access to medical marijuana under a significant expansion of the state’s therapeutic cannabis program that was signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The changes in the law, which take effect in August, allow doctors to recommend medical marijuana... Read more
For these Massachusetts marijuana retailers, opening during the pandemic brought new hurdles; ‘we’ve risen to every challenge’
Marijuana Industry NewsMassachusetts June 17, 2020 0
Caroline Pineau had imagined that when she received a final license to open Stem, a recreational cannabis shop in Haverhill, she’d be sitting in the Cannabis Control Commission’s meeting room at Worcester’s Union Station. But instead, the celebration of receiving that license happened in her living room with her... Read more
New York hemp growers, processors decry delayed CBD rules
Industrial Hemp NewsMarijuana Laws, Regulations, & PoliticsNew York June 17, 2020 0
A group of hemp growers and processors in New York is calling on the state Department of Health to release regulations so that hemp and CBD businesses can make business decisions. According to a letter from the New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association to state health regulators, legislation... Read more
