Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Detroit City Council members passed a resolution Tuesday that documents the harms posed by e-cigarette and marijuana use among youth as the council prepares to restrict where these products can be advertised in the city. In Detroit, ads for alcohol and tobacco are...
Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Fluresh LLC is closing down its $46 million 105,000-square-foot grow facility in Adrian and will be laying off 46 employees at the end of this month. The company, doing business as Tend.Harvest.Cultivate, couldn’t make the economics of the operation work as the...
Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency’s social equity team is currently accepting applications for the FY 2025 Social Equity Grant Program (SEGP). Social Equity Program licensees are either eligible – or close to eligible – to receive a share of one million grant dollars!...
Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Sarah Rusnell, outreach manager, with the Michigan Department of Treasury, is hosting a zoom conference to teach cannabis companies how to process collecting and remitting cannabis-related taxes to Treasury. This is the third workshops that will go over the different...
Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) announced the launch of two new functionalities in Metrc this month. Administrative Recall Function This new feature allows the CRA to apply an Administrative Recall status to packages within the statewide monitoring system. This...
Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
For the third month in a row, Michigan cannabis sales (recreational and medical) fell to $262.9 million, down 4.3 percent from September. But when compared to October 2023, sales were up 25.5 percent. Medical sales fell 70.7 percent from a the same month in 2023 to...