News and Information about the Business of Cannabis

Michigan Shuts Down Industrial Hemp Program That Now Reverts To USDA Control

GRAND HAVEN - Michigan has closed its industrial hemp program, leaving farmers to operate directly under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and signaling potentially significant changes for hemp cultivators and processors in the state. Under USDA...

Detroit Could Restrict Cannabis And e-Cigarette Ads

Detroit City Council members passed a resolution Tuesday that documents the harms posed by e-cigarette and marijuana use among youth as the council prepares to restrict where these products can be advertised in the city. In Detroit, ads for alcohol and...

Fluresh To Close Michigan Cannabis Grow, Lay Off 46

Fluresh LLC is closing down its $46 million 105,000-square-foot grow facility in Adrian and will be laying off 46 employees at the end of this month. The company, doing business as Tend.Harvest.Cultivate, couldn’t make the economics of the operation work as...

Ohio Cannabis Sales Eclipse $87 Million In Less Than Two Months

Oct 2, 2024 | Great Lakes Region

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

Oct 2, 2024 | National

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

Oct 2, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

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

Oct 2, 2024 | Great Lakes Region

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

Sep 25, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

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

Sep 25, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

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

Sep 25, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan

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...

Weed Companies Make More Money Selling Beer Than Pot

Sep 25, 2024 | National

Tilray Brands Inc.’s big bet on legal cannabis is proving so overoptimistic it is now relying on the alcohol market it once aimed to disrupt. A long-awaited easing in US cannabis laws, known as rescheduling, is still at least months away, leaving in place suffocating...

Study: Cannabis Job Market in Michigan Growing

Sep 25, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

Vangst, a Denver-based cannabis industry jobs platform, has released its 2024 Jobs Report which states Michigan, along with Missouri, led the nation by adding more than 10,000 jobs in the cannabis industry in 2023. The 2024 Vangst Jobs Report, completed in partnership...

After Cannabis Linked To Higher Stroke Risk, Michigan Doctor Calls For More Research

Sep 25, 2024 | Great Lakes Region, Michigan

Public perception regarding the risks associated with marijuana use has been on the decline in recent years as more states legalize the drug for medical and recreational purposes. However, health officials like neurologist Angelos Katramados, director of the acute...