Cannabis News With Rick Thompson on Four20 Post Live
Rick Thompson, Executive Director of Michigan NORML, provides the latest cannabis news on Four20 Post Live, part of the Four20 Post Media Group. If you have news to share, email Rick https://youtu.be/9FaG1b11svM
Time Running Out For Ohio Lawmakers To Act On Cannabis Legalization To Preempt Ballot Initiative
The clock is ticking for state lawmakers to pass an initiated statute that would allow marijuana use and sales for anyone over 21 in Ohio. If they don't act in a little less than four months the group that presented the legislature with the initiated statute intends...
Wisconsin Could License Medical Marijuana Dispensaries As GOP Leaders Signal Support
Republican leaders in Wisconsin say legalizing medical marijuana could be part of their legislative agenda for 2023. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, told Wisconsin Public Radio's "The Morning Show" on Monday that he favors partial legalization of...
Cannabis Companies Camp Outside Riverview City Hall, Hope To Score Licenses
Cannabis companies gunning for a marijuana license in Riverview are taking the competition to the next level. This city amended an existing ordinance that barred any marijuana businesses and establishments from operating within city limits. They then replaced it with...
Six New Cannabis Dispos Planned For Northeast Michigan In 2023
Six new Northeast Michigan cannabis shops mean big dollars communities could spend to combat problems some link to the increasing presence of legal marijuana in the region. Alpena County leaders ended 2022 saying they didn’t know how they would spend the tens of...
Motley Marijuana Laws Drive Consumers — and Revenue — Across State Lines
Less than half a mile south of the Wisconsin border in Illinois, the Sunnyside Cannabis Dispensary bustles with activity. Cars with license plates from Wisconsin, Minnesota and other pot-banning states slide in and out of the shop’s expansive parking lot. The bright...
Licensed Recreational Marijuana Sales Begin In Detroit
Licensed sales of recreational marijuana began in Detroit Jan. 4, with at least two shops opening for sales of cannabis to adults aged 21 and up. The House of Dank on Front Street near the city’s border of Lincoln Park, Michigan was the first shop to open its doors to...
Arizona Recreational Marijuana Sales Hit Record, Medical Sales Flip Again
For the eighth straight month, and the eleventh time in the past year, medical marijuana sales dropped from the month prior, clocking in at about $31 million in October 2022. By contrast, adult-use cannabis sales that voters approved in 2020 hit a new high in...
Hemp Initiative In Ecuador First To Focus On Fiber And Food
The Ecuadorian government has greenlighted the country’s first hemp crop under a cooperative initiative among two companies and the Latin-American Industrial Hemp Association (LAIHA). LAIHA member Green and Growth, Quito, and Nobis Holding de Inversiones, one of the...
Psilocybin Therapy Now Legal in Oregon
Oregon’s psilocybin mushroom therapy reforms took effect on January 1, two years after voters approved a measure to allow therapy using the psychedelic fungi. The delay was due to lawmakers who were tasked with creating the regulatory framework for the...
