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Illinois releases Cannabis Report FY2024 (IDFPR portion)

Illinois News Joint

IDFPR cites the explosive growth by stating that 82 new dispensaries open for business in the last year, the single-largest expansion of cannabis dispensaries since the program first started with the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act (CRTA) in 2014. Find detailed information about this topic here.)

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America’s Missed Opportunity in the Global Marijuana Market

Canna Law Blog

Most countries with any type of marijuana program now acknowledge both medical and scientific marijuana. Unfortunately, state-legal U.S. marijuana operators cant share in this enthusiasm. Of note, in this blog post I use the word cannabis when referring to the entire plant; it is also the word used in the 1961 Single Convention. How the U.S.

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Illinois switches to new vendor for cannabis seed-to-sale system

Illinois News Joint

May 2023, the Department of Financial & Professional Regulation (IDFPR) announced that Illinois was switching its cannabis seed-to-sale tracking system from BioTrack to Metrc and listed this transition as an Essential Projects in the FY2023 Annual Cannabis Report and again in the FY2024 report.

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Illinois to switch seed-to-sale tracking vendor

Illinois News Joint

Illinois is set to switch its cannabis seed-to-sale tracking system after delivering a Notice of Intent to award a contract to a new vendor. With the new contract, Metrc is poised to take over Illinois’ seed-to-sale tracking for licensed operators. Illinois uses BioTrack as its current track-and-trace vendor.

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New Commercial Insurance Product to Cover Cannabis and Hemp Business from Seed to Sale

Cannabis Law Report

9, 2021 -– SafeHerb, a division of Specialty Program Group, is introducing… Read More. The post New Commercial Insurance Product to Cover Cannabis and Hemp Business from Seed to Sale first appeared on Cannabis Law Report. February 9, 2021 PRESS RELEASE BRENTWOOD, TN, Feb.

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Akerna announces eCommerce platform, Akerna Connect, enabling cannabis dispensaries to offer online ordering, loyalty programs, and text messaging

Cannabis Law Report

Akerna (Nasdaq: KERN ), an enterprise software, leading compliance technology provider, and developer of the cannabis industry’s first seed-to-sale enterprise resource planning (ERP) software technology (MJ Platform ® ), announced a new offering, Akerna Connect. The tools that Akerna Connect provides our dispensary are game changing.

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New York Senator Introduces Cannabis Cultivation Bill

Cannabis Law Report

Cooney’s bill, Senate Bill S7295 , would create an adult-use provisional cultivation license that would allow cultivators to begin planting very soon while the state’s recreational cannabis program materializes. Seeds need to be planted by June 2022, and sources of these seeds need to located even earlier than that.