Aug 27, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan cannabis sales continue to remain flat in July with sales for all products topping $287.7 million, up 3.2 percent from June’s $275.2 million. This follows similar sales figures in May of $278 million, April $279.6 million and March a record $289 million....
Jul 24, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Lume dispensary workers in Escanaba voted July 23 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1473, marking the first time a cannabis shop in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula voted to unionize. Eighteen budtenders or “luminaries,” including lead budtenders, make up...
Jul 24, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Cheech and Chong’s Cannabis Company confirmed Tuesday it has teamed up with Distro 10, Inc. on the debut of Cheech & Chong’s Cannabis’ Botanical line in Michigan. The line includes cryo-infused cannabis pre-rolls that blend botanically derived terpenes with...
Jul 24, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
The Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners voted last week to make changes to its employee drug testing policy. The board voted to unanimously to make changes to the policy, including new language about legal drugs, at the July 16, meeting. Under the former drug-free...
Jul 24, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
On July 22 the Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) submitted a comment on the proposed federal rule rescheduling marijuana (Docket No. DEA-1362). It can be read in its entirety on the CRA website here. In addition to providing information and statistics about Michigan’s...
Jul 17, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan
Michigan Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) has introduced a bill to limit the ability of federal agencies to use past marijuana use as a factor in making employment and security clearance decisions, titling it the Dismantling Outdated Obstacles and Barriers to Individual...
