Oct 4, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
LIV Cannabis Co. opened Westland LIV Cannabis at 37655 Ford Road on Oct. 2. The new retail location will be the city’s first recreational cannabis dispensary and provide a convenient location to access LIV along the Ford Road and I-275 corridors, the company said in a...
Oct 4, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson will spend the next four and a half years in federal prison, a remarkable fall from his tenure in state politics brought on by taking tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for medical marijuana licenses. Johnson,...
Oct 4, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Reps. Jimmie WILSON JR. (D-Ypsilanti) and Dylan WEGELA (D-Garden City) are re-introducing “Jayden’s Law,” a bill package allowing access to medical marijuana for registered pediatric patients on school campuses. Since 2008,...
Oct 4, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
According to E4 Bioscience, employee turnover in cannabis businesses is common, extraordinarily expensive, time consuming, and risks harming internal culture. Join Opie as he discusses validated pre-hire assessments designed to quantitatively score job suitability,...
Sep 27, 2023 | Feature, National
A bipartisan coalition of 22 state attorneys general, including Michigan AG Dana Nessel, is calling on Congress to pass a marijuana banking bill that cleared a key Senate committee on Wednesday. In a letter sent to congressional leaders on Tuesday, the top law...
Sep 27, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Following a summer vote by members on the Michigan Civil Service Commission who unanimously agreed to remove marijuana from the pre-employment drug testing protocols, the state policy will kick in October 1. Employees who work in law enforcement, operate vehicles,...
