New York’s illicit marijuana market thrives ahead of adult-use launch
Scores of illicit shops are flourishing across New York, posing a competitive threat to the state’s upcoming multibillion-dollar adult-use marijuana industry.
Scores of illicit shops are flourishing across New York, posing a competitive threat to the state’s upcoming multibillion-dollar adult-use marijuana industry.
New Mexico’s first recreational marijuana consumption lounge opened in Las Cruces near the border with El Paso, Texas, according to media reports.
Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s long-awaited comprehensive marijuana reform bill is delayed again.
Schumer now plans to introduce his Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act before the Senate recess in early August instead of later this month, according to The Hill and other media outlets.
A short seller activist group has gone on the attack against San Diego-based Innovative Industrial Properties, saying the company’s real estate portfolio based on acquiring cannabis properties and leasing them back to operators “appears to have degraded significantly.”
New Jersey will launch its projected $2 billion adult-use marijuana market on April 21 amid lingering questions about whether operators can adequately serve the state’s 120,000 medical cannabis patients without disrupting recreational supplies.
Three congressional lawmakers – including a Republican leader on the Congressional Cannabis Caucus – introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday to prepare the federal government for the “inevitable end to cannabis prohibition.”
San Diego-based Innovative Industrial Properties (IIP) acquired a Maryland marijuana cultivation and processing facility for $25 million.
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe said it will become the first regulated adult-use marijuana market in New York when sales launch at three stores Friday.
Medical and recreational marijuana sales in Colorado totaled only $145.3 million in February 2022, according to Department of Revenue data.
More than a half-dozen states remain in play to potentially legalize medical or recreational marijuana through their legislatures this year, with much of the activity focused along the East Coast.
More than a half-dozen existing medical marijuana operators in New Jersey – all large multistate operators – soon will be launching the state’s projected billion-dollar adult-use market.
TerrAscend entered a definitive agreement to acquire a Maryland medical cannabis dispensary for $11.7 million, a deal that will enable the multistate operator to complete a vertical operation in the state.