Marijuana Legalization Opponents Turn To Courts To Shoot Down State Ballot Initiatives
Private citizens and public officials, sometimes joined by governors, increasingly are filing lawsuits to kill statewide marijuana legalization ballot initiatives, including some that voters approved in November. The legal challenges appear to be long shots to...
Four20Post Rick Thompson Video Interview On US House Passing MORE Act To Decriminalize Cannabis
On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed the MORE Act that would decriminalize cannabis use nationwide. While there is no way the US Senate would pass the MORE ACT in this lame duck session, the political winds could change in 2021 if the Democrats win...
House Votes To Approve MORE Act, HR 3884,
At midday Friday, members of the House of Representatives voted to approve the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act, HR 3884, which removes marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act -- thereby eliminating the existing conflict...
420Post Cannabis Headlines With Rick Thompson
Cannabis Advocate Rick Thompson provides the latest Cannabis headlines from Michigan and around the world in this video update. https://youtu.be/re-98IBzisw
Funky Extracts To Hold Sock Drive For Detroit’s Homeless
Jujuan "Funk" Coleman picked a smelly sock as the logo for his cannabis edibles company Funky Extracts because, as he previously told Metro Times, "When you speak of cannabis, 'funk' is good. So I correlated 'funk' with the quality of our products." Continuing in that...
Michigan-Based C3 Industries Raises $45 Million – Expands Into Missouri, And Massachusetts
C3 Industries, a vertically integrated multi-state cannabis company based in Ann Arbor, closed a $45 million funding round late last month that will help the company expand from Oregon and Michigan into Massachusetts and Missouri. The cannabis company co-founded by...
Marijuana Regulatory Agency Quarterly Meeting Dec. 10 Via Zoom
The Marijuana Regulatory Agency will hold a quarterly meeting on Thursday, December 10, at 9:30 A.M. The meeting will be held via Zoom. The purpose of this public meeting is to hear complaints and receive the views of the public on MRA’s administration of the...
Michigan Recreational Marijuana Sales Near $440 Million In First Year Legal
Recreational marijuana dispensaries in Michigan rang up nearly $440 million in sales in their first year of business. Since the adult-use market launched on Dec. 1, 2019, 191 recreational dispensaries have opened, generating $73 million in excise and sales taxes for...
September 2020 Legal U.S. Cannabis Product Demand Continues To Grow
Growth in demand for legal cannabis products in the United States in September was lower than the previous month, continuing a new trend of slow growth markedly different from the rapid rise in sales we experienced in the spring and early summer, According to Anderson...
United Nations Approves WHO Recommendation To Reschedule Cannabis In Historic Vote
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday accepted a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The historic vote in Vienna could have...
