Michigan regulators are hosting a series of educational sessions in September for potential recreational cannabis business applicants, with online applications starting Nov. 1. The five sessions are designed to demonstrate the online business license application...
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Missouri gets 2,000+ medical marijuana business applications
Missouri regulators received roughly 2,100 applications for up to 348 medical cannabis business licenses. More than 1,200 applications arrived in the past three days, including 800 in the 24 hours leading up to the extended deadline, according to state officials. The...
Pew report: Recreational cannabis tax revenues remain volatile
Tax revenues generated by the legal recreational marijuana industry are highly unpredictable because of the lack of reliable data, according to a report released Monday by The Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit organization. Uncertainties regarding sales,...
Second medical marijuana processor launches in Iowa
Iowa's fledgling medical cannabis market, which counts 3,000 registered patients, has been bolstered by a second processor and new products. Here are the latest developments for a program that the Marijuana Business Factbook projects will reach $4 million-$5 million...
Louisiana medical cannabis supplies adequate, state says
Louisiana medical marijuana dispensaries aren't reporting any supply shortages or other problems two weeks after patients began receiving products. That was the consensus Monday from state regulatory officials at a meeting to update MMJ supporters about the progress...
Ohio panel reverses course on anxiety, autism as medical marijuana conditions
Ohio’s fledgling medical marijuana market was dealt a blow when an expert panel rescinded its recommendation to approve anxiety and autism as qualifying conditions. In neighboring Pennsylvania, adding anxiety to the MMJ list of conditions has resulted in a boom in...
New Mexico gov opposes opening medical cannabis market to nonresidents
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration is intervening to challenge a recent judge’s ruling that would boost medical marijuana sales by compelling the state to open its market to qualified nonresidents. The governor’s legal office argued in a court...
Cannabis firm Trulieve reports strong revenue growth in second quarter
Trulieve Cannabis Corp., a Florida-based multistate operator, reported record revenue of $57.9 million for the second quarter, up 149% compared with $23.3 million during the same period a year ago. Revenue for the six-month period ended June 30 totaled $102.4 million,...
Pennsylvania medical marijuana market boosted after adding anxiety
Pennsylvania medical cannabis sales are getting a big lift from the addition of anxiety as a qualifying condition. In less than a month, 3,000 people were certified to buy medical marijuana because of anxiety disorders, the Pennsylvania...
New Mexico governor’s commission eyeing adult-use cannabis legalization
A bipartisan group appointed by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to study legalizing recreational marijuana is moving forward with two public policy meetings this month. The group was scheduled to meet in Albuquerque Wednesday to hear from officials from the...
Illinois expands medical marijuana market in advance of recreational launch
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation adding new qualifying conditions, including chronic pain, to the state’s medical cannabis program, which likely will boost sales in advance of next year’s recreational MJ launch. By signing the bill, the Democratic...
First recreational marijuana store opens off Massachusetts mainland
A recreational cannabis store opened on Nantucket Island, the first to open off the Massachusetts mainland as the young market continues expanding. The Green Lady Dispensary opened Sunday on an appointment-only basis after receiving approval to operate from the...













