Sparx Guide Announces 42% Discount for 420
Sparx Guide connects select brands with a highly defined audience of over a million cannabis enthusiasts. Our readers find fun, and safe recreational cannabis consumption opportunities and experiences geared toward travel, recreation, and...
Ohio Hemp-Infused Drinks Scammers Get Jail Time In $2 Million Pump-And-Dump Financial Fraud
A group of men have been convicted in Ohio for participating in a “pump-and-dump” conspiracy involving a penny stock company that proposed to make hemp-infused drinks. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio...
Saline City Council Eyes Curbside Cannabis Pickup
On March 4, The Saline City Council issued draft regulations that would permit curbside cannabis pickup at dispensaries. A definitive vote is scheduled for the council's next session on March 18. Dispensaries in Saline are barred from...
Zen Leaf Buchanan Employees Vote Overwhelmingly To Unionize
Employees at the Zen Leaf dispensary in Buchanan voted on March 1 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, marking a significant step in labor organization within the Michigan cannabis industry. UFCW 951 President John...
Community Battles Plan To Authorize Dispensaries Near Harper Woods Homes
How and where marijuana businesses can fit into the city of Harper Woods has been an ongoing struggle. Last year, the city council was considering doing away with a 1,500-foot buffer between pot shops, which neighbors viewed as allowing a...
Study: Legalization Not Linked To Upticks In Incidences Of Cannabis-Related Psychosis
The legalization of the Canadian marijuana market is not associated with increases in cannabis-related psychotic episodes, according to data published in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Canadian investigators assessed...
Michigan Cannabis Tax Collections For 2023 To Be Shared With Municipalities And Counties $87 Million, 46 Percent Increase From 2022
The Michigan Treasury Department reported Feb. 29 that 198 municipalities will receive $43.5 million from marijuana taxes collected from 737 cannabis dispensary licenses, while 71 of the state's 83 counties will reap the same $43.5...
Pontiac Plots Next Steps After Voters OK New Guidelines For Cannabis Dispensaries
Marijuana dispensaries could finally open in Pontiac after voters passed a ballot proposal Tuesday night to allow 17 recreational marijuana retailers and set up the guidelines city officials have to follow when granting licenses to...
Algonac Voters Narrowly Reject Marijuana Proposal
Algonac voters on Tuesday narrowly defeated a voter-initiated marijuana ordinance amendment proposal. The ordinance proposal asked if a proposed initiated ordinance amendment in the city of Algonac to repeal the city’s ordinance “Division...
Caro’s Proposed Ordinance To Increase The Number Of Grow Licenses Fails
Caro's proposed marijuana ordinance was overwhelmingly rejected by voters in the Presidential Primary Election held on Tuesday. The proposal, which was spearheaded by the group Green Citizens of Caro, failed with 310 yes votes to 559 no...
