Category: U.S. Cannabis Business News

Though MCR Labs saw a 38% increase in samples from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 1, 2021, there was a 35.5% dip in volume from January to April…. Read more

Both dispensaries cited a commitment to supporting equity in Massachusetts…. Read more

/PRNewswire/ — To recap a year of growth, change, and unprecedented challenges for the Massachusetts cannabis industry, MCR Labs is providing statistics to…… Read more

With Democrats in control of Congress and the White House, marijuana proponents see their best opening yet to unwind the drug's national prohibition. But local cannabis operators eyeing the consequences of potential reforms see at least as much risk as reward…. Read more

COLRAIN — Residents are invited to learn about New England Craft Cultivators LLC’s proposal to open a marijuana cultivation and marijuana product manufacturing facility on West Leyden Road during a virtual community outreach meeting on Tuesday.The…… Read more

Massachusetts cannabis dispensaries are currently suing the state over the new, contentious, delivery regulations.  Specifically, the dispensaries involved in the suit have a problem with the fact that only certain disenfranchised business owners will be able to deliver cannabis for the first three years, in order to try and make… Read more

The COVID-19 outbreak that began about a year ago has proved devastating for many mainstream industries – including airlines and restaurants, for starters – but for those in the cannabis business, 2020 turned out to be a record-setter. Sales of medical and recreational marijuana products smashed former records set in… Read more

Chris Fevry, an applicant and advocate for cannabis delivery in Massachusetts, feels a lawsuit filed against the Cannabis Control Commission over its new delivery regulations is “a direct attack on equity.” “I’m at a loss for words,” Fevry said. “It’s just an attack on equity. There’s not really any other… Read more

A COALITION OF marijuana dispensaries has made good on the threat to sue state regulators over new regulations governing home delivery of marijuana, in a case that is illustrating the contentious divide among various segments of the state’s young marijuana industry.   When the Cannabis Control Commission approved the marijuana delivery regulations in… Read more

Dispensaries across Massachusetts are suing the Bay State’s Cannabis Control Commission over new delivery license regulations…. Read more

BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Leaders of the Massachusetts' cannabis industry spoke out Wednesday against a lawsuit that is seeking to void the state's new rules establishing adult-use marijuana delivery services. The Commonwealth Dispensary Association filed its lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court on January 13th, arguing the Cannabis Control Commissions' new… Read more

Marijuana dispensaries are suing the state board that oversees the industry over its new regulations that only allow members of certain disenfranchised groups to deliver cannabis products for the first three years, saying that stipulation violates state law…. Read more

VA gov slams racist marijuana laws; Incoming RI gov backs legal cannabis but not state stores; USDA “superior” hemp grant; $2B in CO sales in 2020 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… Read more

Colin A. Young  |  State House News Service Making good on a warning issued months ago, the organization that represents most of the state's marijuana retailers is suing the Cannabis Control Commission to invalidate the new regulations that create a separate category of businesses allowed to deliver non-medical marijuana directly… Read more

With Democrats poised to take over both Congress and the White House, there is one industry set for a dramatic expansion in 2021: the cannabis industry. “We believe there’s no better time to be in the cannabis sector,” Joe Bayern, CEO of Curaleaf, recently told Joe Mathieu on Morning Edition…. Read more