Legal Action Threatened After Cannabis Dispensary Set To Open In Highland Park
Highland Park City Councilman Khursheed Ash-Shafii couldn’t believe his eyes. After a judge struck down the city’s problematic recreational cannabis ordinance in July, a Michigan-based marijuana company went ahead and transformed a vacant...
Minnesota Regulators Crack Down On Cannabis Masquerading As Hemp
Minnesota’s cannabis regulators say they are developing an interagency plan to crack down on hemp retailers who are exploiting a legal loophole to pass off marijuana buds as industrial hemp. The state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM)...
First Defendant In $14 million CBD Scam Gets 6½ Years In Prison, Fined $1.7 Million
The founders of a Canadian hemp company who misappropriated funds and then threatened witnesses who testified against them have pled guilty in a New York federal court. Igor Palatnik and Vitaly Fargesen of CanaFarma Hemp Products Corp.,...
Trade Group Says Implementation Of CBD Policy In UK’s $850 Million Market Is Off The Rails
Implementation of legal and regulatory frameworks in the UK’s $850 million (£690 million/€798 million) CBD market is in disarray, a key stakeholder group alleges in a new white paper. The Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI)...
Survey: Pain Patents Report That Cannabis Is “More Effective” Than Conventional Medications
Patients with chronic pain and other conditions report that cannabis is often more effective than conventional treatments, according to survey data published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine. German researchers surveyed...
Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency Accepting Applications For New $1 Million Grant Program
Michigan's Cannabis Regulatory Agency is offering for the first time $1 million in grants to its social equity licensees for employee education, business needs or community investment to encourage participation in the industry by people...
The Fire Station Cannabis Co. Celebrates Back-to-Back Wins As Best Cannabis Shop In The Mining Journal’s Best Of The Best Awards 2023
The Fire Station Cannabis Co., an Upper Peninsula dispensary, announced its consecutive victory as the "Best Cannabis Shop" in The Mining Journal's Best of the Best competition, chosen by the community. "We are truly honored to receive...
Judge: Viridis Can’t Revive Suit Against Cannabis Regulatory Agency
Viridis Labs and Viridis North cannot revive previously dismissed civil claims against the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Authority for a 2021 recall. Judge James Robert Redford held Viridis North and Viridis Laboratories’ 2023 request to...
Burglars Target Marijuana Dispos In Van Buren County
Two marijuana facilities were broken into early Monday, Jan. 8, sheriff’s deputies said. The first incident was reported at 3:19 a.m. at Higher Breed, 77 E. Mainstreet, in Columbia Township. Van Buren County sheriff’s deputies reached the...
Ypsilanti Decriminalizes Psychedelic Plants And Fungi
Ypsilanti has joined more than two dozen cities across the country by embracing the personal use of “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelic plants and fungi. City leaders voted unanimously on Tuesday, Jan. 9 to effectively decriminalize a...
