Ohio medical cannabis sales drop in April as adult-use launch nears
Medical cannabis retailers in Ohio sold $32.3 million in products in April as the state nears the launch of an adult-use market. The MMJ sales total was down from March, according to Cleveland.com, when sales were $47.4 million. ADVERTISEMENT Ohio’s medical...
Marijuana executives use AI to make product decisions
(This story is part of the cover package in the May-June issue of MJBizMagazine.) C-suite executives might be considered a company’s most powerful group. In reality, they are at the mercy of accountants, advisers, data analysts and other staff who provide them with...
New Hampshire lawmakers reject plan for state-run cannabis retail
As expected, members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives rejected a plan approved by the governor and state Senate to legalize adult-use marijuana sales via a state-run retail model. Thursday’s thumbs-down to Gov. Chris Sununu’s legalization vision by the...
Marijuana workers unionize in Denver, Las Vegas and Maryland
Marijuana workers continue to unionize across the country, with the latest pacts reached in Colorado, Maryland and Las Vegas. Budtenders and shift leads at the Ascend Cannabis store in Aberdeen, Maryland, voted overwhelmingly to join International Brotherhood of...
Second Missouri judge approves cannabis ‘tax stacking’
A second judge in Missouri, this time in Buchanan County, ruled that the Buchanan County government can collect an additional tax on adult-use cannabis sales on top of municipal taxes. “To put it bluntly, the Court cannot accept Petitioner’s interpretation of ‘Local...
A decade later, is Colorado’s regulated marijuana model still a national leader?
(This is a contributed guest column. To be considered as an MJBizDaily guest columnist, please submit your request here.) Ten years ago, there was no model for state-regulated, adult-use marijuana. Colorado had to build its own model from scratch, with regulations for...
Trulieve Cannabis lands 2 Ohio licenses in settlement with Black-owned operator
Marijuana multistate operator Trulieve Cannabis Corp. is scooping up two retail licenses in Ohio ahead of the launch of adult-use sales in that state as part of a lawsuit settlement with a Black-owned company. For nearly a year, Harvest of Ohio and Trulieve have been...
Illinois’ medical marijuana expansion, hemp regulations hit road block
Illinois lawmakers ended this legislative session Wednesday without addressing medical marijuana expansion or regulations for hemp products. According to the Chicago Tribune, MMJ advocates blamed Illinois-based multistate operator Green Thumb Industries (GTI) for...
Cannabis operators Cansortium and RIV Capital are merging
Cansortium, a Florida-based vertically integrated cannabis multistate operator, is merging with RIV Capital, which operates the Etain Health marijuana brand in New York. Under terms of the deal, Cansortium – which operates under the Fluent brand – will...
Florida marijuana licenses overdue as adult-use vote looms
By law, the Florida marijuana industry – the largest medical-only cannabis market in the country with $2 billion in projected annual sales – is supposed to have nearly twice as many businesses involved as are operating today. But with state voters set to...
Oklahoma regulator nominated for Rhode Island’s top cannabis post
Michelle Reddish, who has served as chief operating officer of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority for the past year, has been nominated to lead Rhode Island’s newly created cannabis agency. The Senate Committee on Judiciary is scheduled to consider...Featured
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