Ohio Senate Votes To Expand Marijuana Decriminalization To Cover 200 Grams
The Ohio Senate has approved a bill to double the amount of marijuana that is decriminalized in the state and reduce criminal penalties for many other drug crimes. Following months of delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, the measure cleared both a committee and the...
Treez: Improving the Brand-Retailer Connection
In most other markets, retailers and brands are able to develop co-beneficial partnerships based on their ability to share information. Sephora, the world’s leading specialty beauty retailer, shares point-of-sale and inventory details with supplier brands, allowing...
Exclusive Brands To Distribute Platinum Vapes, Church Products In Michigan
Exclusive Brands will be the exclusive distributor of Platinum Vapes and Church products in the state of Michigan. The partnerships are additions to the company's portfolio of brands that are available at various price-points, reinforcing Exclusive’s mission of making...
Michigan Family Adapts Pharmacy, Toy Store Experience To Cannabis Business
When Aric Klar was 8 years old, his parents gave him a little space in their family-owned pharmacies to flex his entrepreneurial muscles and sell whatever he wanted. A four-foot section of Beanie Babies eventually evolved into a 3,000-square-foot toy store in West...
Grand Rapids Could Soon Allow Adult-Use Recreational Marijuana Dispensaries
Recreational marijuana dispensaries in Grand Rapids may open months ahead of schedule. The city commission voted in March to delay until Oct. 20 the application process for dispensaries and other recreational cannabis businesses. But now commissioners plan to...
Online Cannabis Production Certificate Starting for Fall 2020 at Lake Superior State University
Lake Superior State University announced an online Cannabis Production certificate beginning in fall 2020. The certificate combines courses from cannabis chemistry and cannabis business in a one year certificate with a limited lab residency. The residency will be for...
Legal Cannabis Is Almost Entirely White. Here’s How To Buy Weed From Black And Brown People (And Why It Matters)
And like democracy, legalization is imperfect and undone—and requires consumers to make deliberate choices, like choosing to buy legal weed from Black and brown people. Whether by design or by neglect, this is difficult to do, which means the project is further away...
Gallup: Seven in Ten Americans Say That “Smoking Marijuana” Is Morally Acceptable
Seventy percent of Americans say that it is morally permissible for adults to “smoke marijuana,” regardless of the plant’s legal status, according to nationwide polling data compiled by Gallup. That is an increase of five percentage points since...
Study: Cannabis Associated with Reduced Opioid Use, Prolonged Benefits in Pain Patients
The daily use of cannabis by patients with chronic pain conditions is associated with prolonged improvements in subjects’ symptom management and overall quality of life, as well as sustained reductions in their use of opioids, according to longitudinal...
Four20Post: Michigan Cannabis Internet Streaming Video Show Focus On Security
ANN ARBOR – Welcome to the first Four20Post streaming video – aka Internet TV – show. Today we feature news from Rick Thompson and Jamie Cooper, plus interviews with Rudy Patros from Securatech and Kevin MacRitchie from Helios Security. So the theme is...
