Detroit Could Restrict Cannabis And e-Cigarette Ads

Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

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 tobacco are...

Fluresh To Close Michigan Cannabis Grow, Lay Off 46

Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

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 the...

Nov. 30 Deadline To Apply For The CRA’s $1 Million Social Equity Grant Program

Nov 20, 2024 | Feature, Great Lakes Region, Michigan

The Cannabis Regulatory Agency’s social equity team is currently accepting applications for the FY 2025 Social Equity Grant Program (SEGP). Social Equity Program licensees are either eligible – or close to eligible – to receive a share of one million grant dollars!...

RFK Jr. Could Advance Marijuana And Psychedelics Reform Agenda As Trump’s Top Health Official

Nov 20, 2024 | National

President-elect Donald Trump has named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he will have the chance to advance major drug policy reforms he’s championed such as promoting access to psychedelics...

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Has Long History Of Opposing Marijuana Policy Reforms

Nov 20, 2024 | National

South Dakota Senator John Thune, who will lead the Senate in 119th Congress, has long argued against efforts to reform marijuana policy at both the state and federal level. Senator Thune is among the 26 GOP members who earlier this year called upon US...