Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The tuition-fee, five-week, in-person program is designed for young women living in Chicago communities that have been disproportionately impacted by violence, criminal activity, economic disruption, and educational disinvestment, and will prepare them for career pathways with local cannabis retail dispensary employers.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

That leaves dispensaries managing and protecting massive sums of cash, and the stores cannot offer a modern retail payment system to the consumer. The company will issue and process credit cards that will work in dispensaries. The service is expected to launch in January 2022, and accepted at 100 California retail locations.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The capital will also be used to optimize marketing efforts, grow its team with operational talent and support the growth of cannabis companies by providing robust, compliant gift card programs and related marketing services. Founded in 2020, Birchmount brings gift card and related marketing solutions to cannabis retailers in the U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

The requirement, which appears in a set of draft rules for the regulatory framework of the state’s adult-use or recreational marijuana program, “would needlessly expose customers and workers in the cannabis industry to privacy-violating tracking and data collection,” the ACLU said in a letter to the Maine Office of Cannabis Policy this week.

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 19, 2022

One of the most recent reports conducted by Real Estate Witch produced some pretty interesting statistics about people’s opinions on cannabis legalization’s effect on the economy and real estate, such as whether people would purchase a house beside a cannabis dispensary. Let’s explore the findings! Cannabis and Real Estate.

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MassRoots

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

In 2018, the first full year of operations for the retail medical marijuana program in Pennsylvania, patients spent more than $130 million on the herbal medication. Inspired by the successful first full year, officials plan to expand the program by licensing more physicians, producers and retail dispensaries.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 12, 2021

Debby Goldsberry Executive Director, Magnolia Wellness, FLOR Co-Founder, Berkeley Patients Group collective . Debby Goldsberry is executive director at Magnolia Wellness, an award-winning dispensary in Oakland, Calif., and the managing director of the Berkeley Community Care Center dispensary at Amoeba Music. Ruscitto .

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The Blunt Truth

JANUARY 5, 2024

Happy 2024 – let’s start the year off with a shout-out to Colorado, where the retail market is celebrating an anniversary. There’s an update on Alabama’s medical cannabis licensing program (meet the new year; same as the old year). COLORADO January 1, 2014 marked the opening of Colorado’s retail market for adult-use cannabis.

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Less advertised but equally (if not more so) important for prospective retail dispensary applicants was DASNY’s surreptitious issuance of a request for proposal for design-build services for conditional retail dispensaries. In short, DASNY is in the process of soliciting bids from design-build firms (i.e.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

FGW”), a company that has the conditional use approval necessary to operate a cannabis dispensary and related businesses located in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. This dispensary will be neighborhood-oriented, including the hiring of local staff, the selection of local products and the promotion of community safety.”.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Alabama legalized medical a medical cannabis program on May 17, 2021 when Governor Ivey signed SB 46 into law. The law provides for up to 12 cultivator licenses, up to four processor licenses, up to four dispensary licenses, and up to five integrated facility licenses.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Marijuana Programs. A preliminary draft rule related to the tracking and tracing of products in the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Program is currently available for review on the Office of Marijuana Policy’s website: [link]. The labels will come with a Maine program watermark and the registrant/licensee’s ID number on them.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 7, 2020

And this isn’t for lack of want — in fact in 2017 some forward thinking dispensaries had collection boxes for these products, although without scale they wound up just hoarding them as well. The only way to achieve this scale is to use dispensaries as the collection points, much like some were already doing back in 2017.”

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In another sign of the growing popularity of marijuana, the state of Massachusetts recently passed a milestone: it collects more money in cannabis taxes than it does from taxes on alcohol. Through the state’s current fiscal year, which reached a midpoint in December 2021, Massachusetts collected $51.3 Also, it’s not even close.

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The Cannigma

AUGUST 4, 2021

Luckily, “compassionate care” programs are still common, and patients who are in need still have avenues to find a helping hand. Even with legal medical mariuaana programs in 36 states and the District of Columbia, patients can still face access problems for the following reasons: Economic issues. Access problems and medical cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 29, 2021

who haven’t yet sold a year’s worth of legal cannabis are predicted to collect $601 million in new annual tax revenue. Cities with more dispensaries are positively correlated with higher home values, suggesting legalization boosts jobs and economic growth. Property values increase by $519 with each new dispensary a city adds.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 30, 2021

Vertically-integrated cannabis retailer donates a portion of sales from its in-house flower brand to outreach programs. Perfect Union completed a trial of the program in May 2021 and collected $5,000 for the Last Prisoner Project , an organization dedicated to cannabis criminal justice reform. SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (“WSLCB”) announced this Wednesday , January 18, that the 30 day window to apply for a Washington Social Equity In Cannabis Retail License will open March 1, 2023. The WSLCB will reissue 44 retail licenses to qualified applicants that rank the highest on a points scale to “prioritize” applicants.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

During Fiscal Year 21 (July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021), licensed adult-use cannabis retail stores and medical dispensaries generated $1,003,467,655 in taxable sales. Taxable Sales Reported by Adult-Use Retail Stores and Medical Dispensaries. TAXABLE SALES. FISCAL YEAR 21. 1,003,467,665. Clark County. 791,100,017.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

News had trickled out in terms of what the fund would look like: earmarked funds for adult-use dispensary applicants, a mix of private and public funding, etc. On that note, the RFI’s wording indicates that the CCB will be selecting RCD applicants for the program, presumably based on applications submitted by applicants.

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MassRoots

MARCH 14, 2019

The first medical cannabis product manufacturing license was just awarded in Ohio, giving patients in the program a reason to celebrate. While the medical cannabis retail program has been active in Ohio since January of this year, the only product available for purchase so far has been dried cannabis flower.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 29, 2021

A unionization effort filed for 17 employees at the Curaleaf medical dispensary in Hanover, Mass., Local 328 organizers first connected with dispensary workers at Curaleaf Hanover in March 2020, a month before filing the unionization vote and before pandemic-related government shutdowns were enacted. WCC (Women’s Cannabis Collective)

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 16, 2021

(“MedMen” or the “Company”) (CSE: MMEN) (OTCQX: MMNFF), a leading cannabis retailer with operations across the nation, today announced it will carry Jungle Boys – the iconic LA-based growers collective known for growing premium cultivars selected through a rigorous pheno-hunting process – to MedMen dispensaries across California.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 18, 2023

High Rise Dry Bar located on James Island is a collaboration between High Rise Beverage Company, known for CBD and THC seltzers, and Charleston Hemp Collective. As such, the bar will also feature a retail section where visitors can shop for hemp-infused products like lotions gummies, tinctures, teas, and more.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 3, 2021

Cuomo’s administration projects that legalization could generate 30,000 to 60,000 jobs across New York and that tax collection from the program could reach $350 million annually, the release states. Local governments are permitted to opt-out of retail dispensaries or on-site consumption licensing by Dec.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 4, 2021

It replaces prohibition with a sensible framework for regulation and taxation,” Tom Haren, a spokesman for the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary , adding that the proposed law will generate an estimated $400 million in new tax revenue. “It

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Based on the price of cannabis, its taxation is much higher than most other retail products. The remaining seven regions, namely CT, MT, NY, NJ, NM, VT, and VA, don’t collect any taxes on the sale and purchase of cannabis products. Less than 35% THC are charged 10%, and more than 35% are charged 25% of the retail price of cannabis.

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2023

The legislation also establishes a new tax fraud crime for businesses that willfully fail to collect or remit required cannabis taxes, or knowingly possess for sale any cannabis on which tax was required to be paid but was not. Presumably, the illicit shops are not paying the requisite cannabis taxes the State has issued.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The main objective of our ‘Changing Legacies’ program is to create an ecosystem of support, partnership and hope for that better future. Mass CultivatED is the nation’s first jails to jobs cannabis program. Dispensary 33. Project Clean Slate is the social justice program for Minorities for Medical Marijuana (M4MM).

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 10, 2021

As required by the state Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the board voted to require a program environmental impact report (PEIR). The two-year PEIR process would cover all potential uses including retail, distribution, testing, manufacturing, indoor and outdoor cultivation, and microbusinesses. both in San Diego.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The proposed rules would add section “ 570 Social Equity in Cannabis Program ” to Washington Annotated Code (“WAC”) Title 314-55. The rule is aimed at granting retail cannabis licensing opportunities to people who have been disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs, and could go into effect as early as September 28. 30 in DIA.

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Veriheal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Collectively, the four aforementioned newly legal states are projected to earn $4.5 ” This fee — which is designed to support social equity programs — is required to convert up to three medical cannabis dispensaries into dual medical-recreational facilities. billion in annual sales by the fourth year of operation.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hardware stores and dispensaries alike, business operators who work out of commercial properties have been ensnared in a recent theft trend. Broadly known as cash-only operations, the nation’s dispensaries have been targets since legalization’s dawn. The sum of products and cash stolen was in the millions of dollars.

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Illinois News Joint

APRIL 2, 2023

Taxes from adult use cannabis sales, including wholesale taxes and retail taxes at dispensaries, get collected into the Cannabis Regulation Fund, which are then distributed by statute and spent by the fiscal year budget. First, the money flows to administrative expenses by the State agencies implementing cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Total Retail Revenue including New York increased 17.6% On the top-line, we outperformed Headset industry data in the majority of our markets, and we generated positive retail adjusted EBITDA for the fifth consecutive quarter. Gross Margin Rate and Retail Gross Margin Rate 2 : Total Gross Margin Rate was 43.9% year-over-year.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 29, 2023

So let’s begin with January , when New York opened its retail market. We also saw sales begin in Connecticut , which left New Hampshire as the only New England state on the outside looking in at a retail market. Moving on to February , Missouri opened a retail market with a bong, er, I mean, bang. Fun fact: still true!

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 15, 2021

Adult-use retail sales: Purchases are not subject to any statewide cannabis tax, although some municipalities do charge a cannabis excise tax. There is no statewide retail sales tax in Alaska. Adult-use retail sales: Purchases are subject to a 16% cannabis excise tax in addition to a 5.6% Juneau charges 3%.

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