Dec 5, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Drug test regulations are slowing the process of filling some of the numerous vacant public bus driver positions statewide, according to the executive director of the Michigan Public Transit Association. Clark Harder, of the Public Transit Association, said local...
Dec 5, 2023 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Former Michigan House Speaker Rick Johnson has surrendered at a minimum-security federal prison camp in Minnesota to serve a 55-month sentence for pocketing bribes and corrupting the state’s marijuana industry, according to an inmate database updated Saturday....
Dec 5, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region
An Ohio Senate committee has given initial approval to a newly unveiled proposal to fundamentally alter the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law that’s set to take effect later this week. The legislation being advanced in the GOP-controlled...
Dec 5, 2023 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The city revoked a group of marijuana companies’ business licenses because their operation at 20601 Glendale St. on the city’s west side is too close to a drug-free zone. Schools are a drug-free zone. Yet the city of Detroit approved a group of marijuana companies to...
Nov 28, 2023 | Feature, FOUR20 Post, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Latrish Matson, founder of Michigan Weedsters, has joined the Sparx & Recreation (www.sparxnrec.com) team. She is interviewed before her first reporting assignment, MjBizCon in Las Vegas, where she will interview newsmakers, exhibitors and even cannabis chefs. If...
Nov 28, 2023 | Great Lakes Region
Indiana is getting lonelier and lonelier. Three of its direct neighbors have now legalized recreational marijuana. The latest one to fall was Ohio, where a -referendum to greenlight adult-use cannabis cruised to an easy victory during the Nov. 7 election. The state...