Can This Family Get a Stake in the Big Business of Marijuana? – The New York Times
“We just want to try to take that away.” If approved for what is known as a retail microlicense, the three-generation family — whose members range in age from 31 to 78 — plans to open a roughly 2,500-square-foot shop stocked with an array of cannabis products. The store has a name, Simple ReLeaf, and a focus: homeopathic remedies. But its location is not yet clear, one of a number of crucial details that are still up in the air as they try to get a toehold in the multibillion-dollar cannabis market. In an industry dominated by deep-pocketed multistate and…
Read More »Legalize cannabis to boost mail delivery, rep says (Newsletter: February 16, 2022) – Marijuana Moment
CO psilocybin initiative; RI legalization hearing; MD psychedelics treatment bill; Hemp wigs for UK lawyers Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… BREAKING: Journalism is often consumed for free, but costs money to produce! While this newsletter is proudly sent without cost to you, our ability to send it each day depends on the financial support of readers who can afford to give it. So if you’ve got a few dollars to spare each…
Read More »TTAB Affirms Unlawful Use Refusal Of “PUREXXXCBD” For Plant Extracts And Supplements Containing CBD – Intellectual Property – United States – Mondaq News Alerts
United States: TTAB Affirms Unlawful Use Refusal Of “PUREXXXCBD” For Plant Extracts And Supplements Containing CBD 16 February 2022 Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a mere 5-pages, the Board affirmed a refusal to register the proposed mark PUREXXXCBD for “Plant extracts for pharmaceutical purposes; vitamins; dietary supplements; all of the foregoing containing CBD solely derived from hemp containing no more than .3% THC on a dry weight basis” (Class 5). The Board found that Applicant AgrotecHemp lacked a bona fide intent to use the mark in…
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Best Rated Dispensaries in Massachusetts
Best Rated Dispensaries in Massachusetts – 2022 Edition! | Leafly Link copied to your clipboard Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? noyes Remember me for 30 days. I confirm that this is not a shared device. Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. These are the must-stop legal weed shops across the state Massachusetts residents voted to legalize medical cannabis in 2012, and then adult-use in 2016. The recreational market opened in 2018 with the East Coast’s first legal dispensaries, and…
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The border crisis and its deadly drugs have reached middle schools nationwide – New York Post
Think you live too far from the Mexican border to be hurt by the chaos there? Bloomfield is a picturesque village in central Connecticut, 3,500 miles from America’s southern border. But illegal drugs flowing across that border nearly killed a 16-year-old at Bloomfield HS two weeks ago. He tried marijuana, not knowing it was laced with fentanyl. Police rushed to the school nurse’s office and administered two doses of Narcan just in time to save him. Responding to the surge in teen overdoses, Connecticut’s Gov. Ned Lamont is asking, “How did this happen? How is there more fentanyl on the streets than…
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Virginia Senate Votes To Start Recreational Marijuana Sales This September Through Current Medical Dispensaries – Marijuana Moment
A Republican Missouri lawmaker on Tuesday unveiled a bill to tax and regulate adult-use marijuana in the state. It would provide opportunities for expungements, authorize social consumption facilities and permit cannabis businesses to claim tax deductions with the state. Rep. Ron Hicks (R) filed the omnibus legislation, titled the “Cannabis Freedom Act.” He said in a memo to colleagues that the measure was drafted in a way that thoughtfully incorporates elements from “every marijuana bill filed this session” to create a “free but tightly regulated market for legal marijuana.” Here’s what the cannabis legislation would accomplish as drafted: Possession, home…
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GOP Missouri Lawmaker Unveils Wide-Ranging Marijuana Legalization Bill As Others Pursue 2022 Ballot – Marijuana Moment
A Republican Missouri lawmaker on Tuesday unveiled a bill to tax and regulate adult-use marijuana in the state. It would provide opportunities for expungements, authorize social consumption facilities and permit cannabis businesses to claim tax deductions with the state. Rep. Ron Hicks (R) filed the omnibus legislation, titled the “Cannabis Freedom Act.” He said in a memo to colleagues that the measure was drafted in a way that thoughtfully incorporates elements from “every marijuana bill filed this session” to create a “free but tightly regulated market for legal marijuana.” Here’s what the cannabis legislation would accomplish as drafted: Possession, home…
Read More »Cannabis beverage company Cann gets backing from Green Thumb Industries and celebrity investors – MarketWatch
Cann has landed a $27 million Series A venture financing, as the cannabis beverage company looks to grow its distribution to more U.S. states in 2022, the company said Tuesday. Venture capital firm Imaginary Ventures led the Series A round, with cannabis company Green Thumb Industries GTII, +3.78% GTBIF, +3.72% as an investor. Jake Bullock, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Cann, told MarketWatch the funding ranks as the biggest Series A financing of a venture-backed cannabis beverage company. The fruit-flavored drinks are aimed at social drinkers, and contain micro doses of THC and CBD — much less THC than other cannabis…
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