Pending legislation in Nebraska that would have established a medical cannabis industry failed by two votes, a frustratingly tight margin for advocates. The vote needed 33 yes votes to pass, and only received 31, making it unable to break a filibuster. LB 474 is officially off the table. Nicole Hochstein, a mother of a child …
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BOSTON (CBS) — Downtown Boston’s first retail marijuana shop had its grand opening Thursday. Ascend recently opened for business on Friend Street, right near North Station and the TD Garden. The Massachusetts Cannabis Commission authorized Ascend to open up for retail in April. The 16,000 square-foot store is said to be the largest pot shop …
(Credit: Prensa 420/Flickr) Preliminary results of a public input survey on the legalization of marijuana suggest that a majority of residents are in favor of the town allowing dispensaries and on-site consumption at lounges. Ann Marie Prudenti, the deputy town attorney, said the “rough results” she has examined showed approximately 60% of the responses were …
May 13, 2021 Greenlight Dispensary advertises 16 medical marijuana locations across Missouri, from Cape Girardeau to Kansas City, and all points in between. Justice Grown, a Pennsylvania-based company, has ties to 14 dispensaries in Missouri. Yet Missouri’s constitution prohibits the state from granting more than five dispensary licenses to any single entity or individual. The …
Trulieve Cannabis Corp., the largest fully licensed medical cannabis company in Florida, announced May 10 its definitive arrangement agreement for the acquisition of Arizona-based Harvest Health and Recreation Inc., in a $2.1-billion deal. Primarily a vertically integrated “seed-to-sale” company, Trulieve touted the all-stock transaction as one that creates the most profitable multistate operator in the …
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State’s First Adult-Use Licensee Opens New Location to Expand Access to Superior Products Ann Arbor, MI, May 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — Exclusive Brands (“Exclusive Brands” or “Exclusive”), Michigan’s premier, vertically integrated cannabis company composed of state-of-the-art retail locations, a processing and manufacturing facility, and licensed grow operations, as well as Michigan’s home to a …
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This is the first glimpse at how one of Manchester’s ‘most cherished’ Victorian landmarks will be transformed into an apartment building boasting homes for social rent. Plans have now been formally submitted to redevelop Ancoats Dispensary as part of the next phase of regeneration in Ancoats and New Islington. The Grade II-listed building was built …
CANNABIS CULTURE – Cannabis-lobbying across the US has achieved that rare thing – uniting big banks, big tobacco, unionists, and Black Lives Matter activists – for now. That doesn’t mean the interests shaped around cannabis are mutual. In their corner, Black Lives Matter activists are out to imprint their voice into evolving cannabis legalization rules because …
Jeff Graves has run a barbershop in Glendale for about a year, but he’s hoping to land a much more lucrative business — one of the 26 “social equity” marijuana shop licenses the state is preparing to issue. Graves, 42, tried to get into the original lottery to win one of the limited marijuana dispensary licenses …