The Business of Cannabis

Best Practices For Cultivators

Oct 2, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) is dedicated to providing licensees the information needed to foster a transparent and consistent approach to compliance efforts throughout the harvest season. The Operations Support Section hosted a CRA Education Session regarding...

Timing Wrong For Bill Seeking To Raise THC Limit For Hemp

Oct 2, 2024 | National

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has again introduced legislation that would triple the THC limit for industrial hemp, an act of poor timing if we ever saw one. Rand has refloated the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan (“HEMP” Act), which suggests an increase from 0.3% to 1.0%...

Ohio Cannabis Sales Eclipse $87 Million In Less Than Two Months

Oct 2, 2024 | Great Lakes Region

Profits from sales of recreational marijuana are in the tens of millions, the Division of Cannabis Control reports. As of September 28, sales of recreational marijuana were reported to have exceeded $87.1 million of the more than $2 billion in total product sales...

FBI: Nearly One Quarter Of All Drug-Related Arrests Are For Marijuana Possession

Oct 2, 2024 | National

Law enforcement officials made well over 200,000 arrests for marijuana-related violations in 2023, according to data compiled by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and posted on its Crime Data Explorer website. According to the online database, which was...

Cannabis And Treasury Tax Registration With Michigan Treasury

Oct 2, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

The Cannabis Regulatory Agency is hosting Sarah Rusnell, outreach manager, and Brandi Branson, MTO lead analyst, with the Michigan Department of Treasury. to learn about the Treasury registration process for cannabis businesses in Michigan. Second in a series of four,...