Cannabis prices: Are we in a race to the bottom?
Cannabis prices: Are we in a race to the bottom? – Leafly Link copied to your clipboard Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? Which part of Canada? Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Sorry, Leafly isn’t available in your location yet. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Canada’s first wave of private cannabis stores was dominated by retail spaces designed to mimic the Apple store, with iPads on gleaming white countertops to scroll through product selections. “You were going to have people who had never been…
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Connecticut raises mold levels for medical marijuana at one lab, emails show – CT Insider
Connecticut approved an increased limit of mold and yeast allowed in medical marijuana at one of the state’s two cannabis testing labs through private emails last year, documents show. At the request of AltaSci Labs, the state Department of Consumer Protection agreed to raise the total passing level of yeast and mold from 10,000 colony forming units per gram to 1 million per gram for the lab, according to August 2020 emails obtained via a Hearst Connecticut Media Group public records request. The request, which also included the addition of testing for a specific genus of mold, was the result…
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DEA-HHS cannabis dispute brought to White House office (Newsletter: December 6, 2021) – Marijuana Moment
NYC safe consumption sites for drugs; Financial orgs want marijuana banking in NDAA; Jamaica’s new “good ganja sense” campaign 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… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there.Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment/ TOP THINGS TO KNOWNational Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow said…
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7 Cannabis CEOs Are Focused on the Northeast and Michigan in 2022 – Business Insider
The US cannabis market is growing fast: 18 states and Washington, DC, have legalized cannabis. Many top cannabis CEOs said the Northeast had the most potential. Others said they were looking to developing medical markets in Texas, or overseas. Cannabis CEOs say the US’s Northeast could become one of the industry’s largest and most exciting markets. As part of a larger project, Insider asked the CEOs of some of the largest cannabis companies about their 2022 predictions, why they’re not waiting around for the federal government to legalize cannabis, and which markets they’re most excited about for 2022. The CEOs predicted…
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In Latest Crackdown on Anything Adjacent to Marijuana, Texas Gets Smokable Hemp Banned Again – Dallas Observer
Texas still hasn’t given up on trying to ban smokable hemp. The state of the smokable products have been in limbo ever since last August. The fight to keep these products legal in the state has gone all the way to the Texas Supreme Court. After district courts decided the ban was illegal, the state’s Department of State Health Services filed a notice of appeal to the ruling in the Texas Supreme Court on Dec. 1. This notice of appeal supersedes the final ruling, meaning the smokable hemp ban in Texas is back in effect until the Supreme Court rules otherwise….
Read More »Omicron Has Now Been Found in 17 US States – The Daily Beast
The number of states that have reported cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus has jumped to 17. On Sunday, the Georgia confirmed its first in-state case, while the St. Louis Health Department said a Missouri resident has also contracted the variant. Both cases were in patients who had been traveling—one to South Africa, the other in the U.S. Previously, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin had detected cases of the variant. Read it at New York Times
Read More »Chris Dyson Is A Trans-Am Champion – SPEED SPORT – SPEED SPORT
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Perseverance paid off for Chris Dyson this year. After coming close for the last three years, Dyson brought home the Trans Am Series championship following an outstanding season. The Poughkeepsie, N.Y., driver won seven of the opening 10 races in the No. 20 ALTWELL CBD Ford Mustang, clinching the title with one race remaining. While Dyson missed the season finale at Texas’ Circuit of The Americas to concentrate on family matters, late substitute Matthew Brabham took a dramatic last-second triumph to give the team its eighth victory. “Winning the championship was massive for me, personally, on a…
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State’s medical marijuana industry off and running | Business – Huntington Herald Dispatch
CHARLESTON — With retail stores opening and an in-state cultivation facility in operation, West Virginia’s medical marijuana industry is off and running. Trulieve has opened retail dispensaries in Morgantown and Weston. With the retail facilities open, years of development and planning to make medical marijuana in available in West Virginia become a reality. Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers spoke recently about the medical cannabis industry and the company’s operation in West Virginia. “We really see significant opportunities to engage with new patient communities, and we’re always looking for places where we can redefine what cannabis experiences can look like throughout a…
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