Illinois halts adult-use marijuana retail licensing to boost social equity
State law allows for 500 marijuana stores, but the state will pause licensing non-social equity license holders while social-equity entrepreneurs launch their businesses.
State law allows for 500 marijuana stores, but the state will pause licensing non-social equity license holders while social-equity entrepreneurs launch their businesses.
Social equity is a societal issue. If you are entering or already participating in the cannabis market, look deeply into your reasons for something other than financial gain.
Missouri regulators on Monday revoked another 25 marijuana microbusiness licenses earmarked for social equity applicants.
A Minnesota judge has ordered the state’s cannabis regulators to hold a lottery to issue business licenses to qualified social equity applicants after growing fears the lotto might be canceled altogether.
New York has established a $5 million grant program to support startup costs for adult-use cannabis social equity retail licensees in the state.
A Republican-led bill to “regulate the cannabis industry to death” passed the Ohio state Senate on a partisan vote.
A white California couple challenging marijuana social equity provisions across the country has appealed a recent dismissal of a lawsuit in Rhode Island to a federal appeals court.
The out-of-state litigants whose lawsuit challenging New York state’s cannabis social equity laws contributed to the infamously botched rollout of adult-use sales in the market have filed another claim against the state.
Tabatha Robinson, a top official at New York’s Office of Cannabis Management, has been chosen to diversify a $1 billion market as leader of the Maryland Cannabis Administration.
Four New York City marijuana retailers with social equity licenses are suing state regulators, claiming that recently issued exceptions to a law imposing a 1,000-foot barrier between stores is “undermining” their businesses.
Two women are suing Minnesota’s cannabis regulator after being denied an opportunity to participate in the upcoming lottery for adult-use marijuana social equity business licenses.
About two-thirds of the 1,817 adult-use marijuana social equity license applicants in Minnesota were denied access to the state’s license lottery, which is expected to be held the week of Dec. 2.