Skymint Buys 3Fifteen Cannabis, Lands $70 Million Loan, Gets $8 Million Investment
ANN ARBOR - The wave of consolidations in the Michigan cannabis market continued Tuesday when SKYMINT announced the acquisition of 3Fifteen Cannabis, the closing of its concurrent $70 million Senior Secured Term Loan from Tropics LP, an affiliate of SunStream Bancorp...
Feds Could Pump Up To $100 Million Into Michigan’s Rapidly Growing Hemp Industry
Michigan’s hemp industry could get up to $100 million in federal funds to help it compete globally under a proposal pushed by a nationwide growers association. The state is one of four — along with Oregon, New York and Florida — with emerging hemp industries...
Proposal To Turn Adrian Mall Into Marijuana Retail Center
One of those prospective ways of revitalizing the closed Adrian Mall was pitched last week to the Adrian City Commission during its premeeting work study session. Developers based out of New York spoke virtually with the commission regarding the potential of turning...
Four20 Post: Cloud Cannabis Buys Kalamazoo Cultivator, Partners With Wonderbrett
Cloud Cannabis Co-Founder John McLeod joins the gang at Four20 Post to talk about his company's purchase of a Kalamazoo cultivator and its 70,000 square foot facility, his new partnership with California grower Wonderbrett, and his plans to open a half dozen more...
Live Coverage Of The Medical Caregiver Rally In Lansing
Rick Thompson, Executive Director of Michigan NORML, and Dan Sparrow, co-founder of Sparrow Consulting, provided live coverage of the Michigan Medical Caregiver Rally in Lansing on Sept. 15. The Rally was scheduled in anticipation of new legislation introduced that...
New Standard Opened Cannabis Dispensary In Ann Arbor
Michigan cannabis company New Standard opened a new dispensary in Ann Arbor this month, the brand's eighth, is at 811 N. Main St., Ann Arbor. The store is opened for both adult-use customers ages 21 and older and card-carrying medical marijuana patients ages 18 and...
Cannabis School Now In Session In Pontiac
The idea of a cannabis school is not so outlandish as it used to sound. From the moment the medical marijuana law was passed in 2008 somebody has been offering lessons on how to grow and do the other things necessary for the industry. Those lessons have spanned from...
Study: College Students Drank Less During Pandemic But Used Cannabis, Psychedelics At Record Highs
A recent study published by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that half of United States college students ages 19-60 admitted to using weed in 2020. While that may not exactly seem like a revelatory, uh, revelation, the "Monitoring the Future"...
Grow Limits For Marijuana Caregivers Would Be Reduced Under Michigan legislation
The first shots were fired Tuesday in a long-brewing policy war surrounding the Michigan marijuana industry. Some Michigan marijuana companies and politicians hope to drastically limit the amount of marijuana that loosely regulated medical cannabis caregivers may...
Michigan Medical Marijuana Caregivers Fight Against Efforts To Restrict Grow Rights
Medical marijuana caregiver Ryan Bringold has been involved in Michigan’s grassroots efforts to legalize cannabis for years. But as larger licensed recreational and medical cannabis grow facilities and provisioning centers crop up across Michigan, caregivers...
