Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The city of Pontiac began accepting recreational marijuana business applications last week, but the timing couldn’t be more challenging for prospective operators. The Pontiac City Clerk’s office opened its 21-day application window on Dec. 2 for up to 17 retail...
Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
One of the country’s largest cannabis operators is abandoning its Michigan grow operations. Chicago-based PharmaCann told employees Monday it would shutter its 207,000-square-foot LivWell Michigan cultivation site in Warren, laying off at least 170. Todd Lince,...
Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
A new study by LeafLink ranks Michigan second in the nation for marijuana sales per resident, trailing only Alaska, where tourism has boosted sales. But unlike the Last Frontier, Michigan’s high ranking comes from a homegrown and ever-expanding cannabis market...
Dec 11, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Exclusive Capital Partners and Quality Roots might get a second chance at snagging licenses in Detroit. The two cannabis operators sued Royal Oak over the application process in April 2022 before the licenses were awarded. Ultimately, the city awarded the two licenses...
Dec 10, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
A robotics-based cannabis “de-leafing” system has been introduced by Rochester Hills-based Platform Robotics LLC and is being marketed under the brand name Softrim, based in Rochester Hills. The company says the new technology can provide “hand-trim quality at...
Dec 4, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan is on the brink of achieving a milestone as one of the nation’s most dynamic cannabis markets: $10 billion in total sales within just five years of legalizing recreational marijuana. In a recent Politico interview by Paul Demko, Brian...
