Michigan Marijuana Report Offers Rate Protection Guarantee
As you start planning for 2021, we want to make sure you are aware that we have created and published our 2021 Media Kit, including new offerings and updated rates. We are offering a Rate Card Protection guarantee, letting you lock in your 2021 marketing plan at our...
This Is How Marijuana Could Go Federally Legal In 2021
America will need to be super stoned to survive the gorilla cage that it may get stuffed inside next year. It’s not that we’re trying to be pessimistic, but there is little doubt that the population can withstand another year of lockdowns and stimulus living. If...
Congressional Package Repeals Ban on Student Aid to Those with Past Drug Convictions
Language included in the appropriation package approved by Congress on Monday includes provisions repealing the longstanding federal ban on providing student aid eligibility to those with certain drug convictions. As first reported by Marijuana Moment,...
Roaming Caravans Of Burglars Overwhelmed Oakland’s Cannabis Industry In 2020
Early in the morning on Nov. 4, Lavell Russell received a phone call from a friend who told him that his cannabis shop, Only Good Weed, had been “trashed and robbed.” Russell drove to the store, a small commercial building on the corner of High Street and Fairfax...
Marijuana Sales Data Reveal Americans Bought 67 Percent More Cannabis To Survive 2020
State tax and revenue data acquired and analyzed by Leafly reveal that nationwide sales of medical and adult-use marijuana increased by 67% over 2019. Americans purchased $17.9 billion in cannabis products over the past calendar year, $7.2 billion more than the $10.7...
SPACs Pump Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Into US Cannabis Industry Through Acquisitions
Two cannabis special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), Silver Spike Acquisition Corp. and Subversive Capital Acquisition Corp., recently announced deals worth more than $2 billion, while two other SPACs have an additional $280 million that must be...
DEA Might Start Issuing Cannabis Cultivation Permits In Early 2021
After years of delay, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration could soon begin issuing licenses to businesses and institutions to cultivate cannabis for scientists researching the plant. “I expect them to start issuing licenses no later than the first half of 2021,”...
420Post: Terrapin Care Station, Gage Social Equity Program
On the Dec. 16 edition of Four20Post, Jamie Cooper from Sensi Connects and Rick Thompson from Jazz Cabbage Cafe join Mike Brennan from MIMarijuanaReport to interview executives of Terrapin Care Station, a cannabis retailer that has just entered the Michigan market,...
Michigan Medical Sales Plunge
Michigan’s medical cannabis sales have dropped by $15 million on a monthly basis since July, while recreational sales dropped by $5 million between October and November. Sales numbers for October and November, typically released monthly, were made public only...
Gov. Whitmer Commutes Sentence for Michael Thompson
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Dec. 22 commuted the sentence of Michael Thompson, a former cannabis dealer, who was sentenced on May 31, 1996, to 40-60 years in prison for felon in possession of a firearm. He’s served 22 years, and his earliest possible release...
