May 22, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
JARS Cannabis is set to return for its second year as the exclusive cannabis retail sponsor at Movement, an internationally renowned dance music festival that is held annually during Memorial Day Weekend (May 27 – 29)in Downtown Detroit at Hart Plaza on the...
May 17, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Skymint, now in receivership, invested heavily last year to retrofit the former Summit Sports and Ice Complex near Lansing into a massive marijuana grow and processing operation. The expansion was supposed to double its marijuana production capabilities. Skymint never...
May 17, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Another person has pleaded guilty to participating in a bribery scheme in Michigan designed to connect hopeful medical marijuana operators with licenses. Lobbyist Brian Pierce said he gave at least $42,000 in bribes to a company controlled by former...
May 17, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
TerrAscend announced on the Benzinga news wire that its subsidiary, Gage Cannabis Co., launched sales at its new flagship cannabis provisioning center in Oxford. This is TerrAscend’s fifth licensed Cookies dispensary in Michigan joining locations in Detroit, Ann...
May 17, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The state of Michigan may drop a requirement that all applicants test negative for marijuana before they are hired for state jobs after the Free Press highlighted how the civil service rule was exacerbating a state hiring crunch. On Friday, the Michigan Civil...
May 16, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency reported that April cannabis sales totaled $246.1, a 1.5 percent from a record setting $250 million in March. Since April had one less day than March, the April figure is nearly the same as the month before. Still, the April sales...