Harris Wants To Be Pro-Cannabis Candidate. Industry Isn’t Convinced Yet
Vice President Kamala Harris further positioned herself as a pro-cannabis candidate on Monday in an interview with sports and culture podcast “All the Smoke” — but industry leaders aren’t convinced her administration would lead to the reform she has...
Best Practices For Cultivators
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) is dedicated to providing licensees the information needed to foster a transparent and consistent approach to compliance efforts throughout the harvest season. The Operations Support Section hosted a CRA Education Session regarding...
Timing Wrong For Bill Seeking To Raise THC Limit For Hemp
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has again introduced legislation that would triple the THC limit for industrial hemp, an act of poor timing if we ever saw one. Rand has refloated the Hemp Economic Mobilization Plan (“HEMP” Act), which suggests an increase from 0.3% to 1.0%...
Ohio Cannabis Sales Eclipse $87 Million In Less Than Two Months
Profits from sales of recreational marijuana are in the tens of millions, the Division of Cannabis Control reports. As of September 28, sales of recreational marijuana were reported to have exceeded $87.1 million of the more than $2 billion in total product sales...
FBI: Nearly One Quarter Of All Drug-Related Arrests Are For Marijuana Possession
Law enforcement officials made well over 200,000 arrests for marijuana-related violations in 2023, according to data compiled by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and posted on its Crime Data Explorer website. According to the online database, which was...
Cannabis And Treasury Tax Registration With Michigan Treasury
The Cannabis Regulatory Agency is hosting Sarah Rusnell, outreach manager, and Brandi Branson, MTO lead analyst, with the Michigan Department of Treasury. to learn about the Treasury registration process for cannabis businesses in Michigan. Second in a series of four,...
As Central Ohio Cities Ban Cannabis Businesses, Reynoldsburg Seeks To Welcome Dispensary
As other central Ohio communities are prohibiting cannabis-based businesses from their communities, a marijuana dispensary is in the works for Reynoldsburg. The city's planning and zoning board approved a conditional use and variance earlier this month for...
Legal Pot Sales Higher In Michigan Than California
California became the weed capital of America in the popular imagination thanks to movies like Up in Smoke. But that’s changing as more states legalize the sale, consumption, and growth of marijuana. Michigan, for instance, now sells more than California, despite...
Howell To Vote On Adult Use Cannabis In November
Howell residents will vote on recreational marijuana businesses in November, despite efforts to strike the measure from the ballot and arguments the organizers behind the proposal aren't local. Last year, an Ypsilanti attorney named Anderson Grandstaff wrote a letter...
Black Market Cannabis Unchecked Under Michigan’s Law
Nearly a year after a landmark Michigan Court of Appeals ruling, Michigan’s illicit marijuana dealers have an economic edge. In a 3-0 opinion, the court ruled in October 2023 that Shaaln Kejbou, who was growing more than 1,100 marijuana plants without a...
