NY Cannabis Insiderās week in legal weed for March 9, 2024
Happy weekend, everyone! We hope everyone remembers to set their clocks ahead, and enjoys the extra hour of sunshine ā while chugging some coffee to...
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Happy weekend, everyone! We hope everyone remembers to set their clocks ahead, and enjoys the extra hour of sunshine ā while chugging some coffee to...
One of Onondaga Countyās two legal recreational marijuana shops is suing the stateās Office of Cannabis Management, claiming the agency illegally barred the shop from...
This guest column is from Scott Mazza, co-founder of Buffalo-based Vitality CBD. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author,...
The Greenery Spot officially opened its doors on July 29, becoming the second legal dispensary to open in the Binghamton area. Business at the Johnson...
A lawyer for two Jersey City police officers who were wrongly dismissed for legally using marijuana while off duty accuses Mayor Fulop of refusing to...
Geddes, NY ā Mike Flynn, who runs FlynnStoned Cannabis Co. in downtown Syracuse, is expanding from pot into pickleball. The entrepreneur plans to open a...
David Falkowski fretted over the possibility that many of New Yorkās licensed cannabis growers may collapse about a half-year ago, when fewer than 30 legal...
NYCBUD just opened its doors on Feb. 16, making the Long Island City dispensary a new kid in a town with overwhelming demand for weed....
A handful of activists supporting statewide marijuana legalization and/or decriminalization gathered Monday at the Capitol for the Pennsylvania State Police budget hearing. Marijuana is a...
Aaron Riley is the Founder and CEO of Certified Testing & Data (CTND), a third-party testing company. He answered eight simple questions for NY Cannabis...
The Office of Cannabis Management has told NY Cannabis Insider that rules governing cannabis special event permits are currently being drafted, and that the agency...
Happy weekend, everyone! Between stories about marketing regulations, coverage of the stateās seed-to-sale tracking system and Q&As with industry players, we covered a lot of...
There are some lists Jersey City sits atop, whether itās home to the best pizza, the highest rents or the most diverse population in the...
Jenny Argie is the founder of Jennyās Baked at Home Company, a licensed New York cannabis processor/manufacturer/distributor. Her brand in the adult use market is...
Two properties owned by a family-run medical marijuana company in Morris County are facing foreclosure after the business defaulted on a $10.5 million loan, according...
Ellis Soodak opened Verdi, the first legal adult-use dispensary in Manhattanās Chelsea neighborhood, about a month and a half ago. Already, heās grappling with a...
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New Yorkās legal cannabis operators have about two months to stand up seed-to-sale tracking systems, but regulators havenāt provided much clarity or instruction, some licensees...
Rodney āHurricaneā Carter, Jr., is the CEO of Trends Dispensaries, a licensed cannabis brand. He answered eight simple questions for NY Cannabis Insiderās āPeople to...
Oregonās struggling cannabis industry endured another difficult year in 2023, and thereās no indication conditions will ease in the foreseeable future. Prices remain severely depressed,...
When it comes to marijuana legalization, Gov. Josh Shapiro envisions Pennsylvania being the first state in the nation to put its agriculture department in charge...
DOSHA Farms missed a monthslong court injunction by the skin of its teeth. The Oneonta-based dispensary received its final approvals to open the store about...
Story by Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA and Kate Huangpu of Spotlight PA Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and...
The battle over cannabis dispensaries and regulations in Hoboken is taking another turn this week when the city council once again considers an ordinance that...
Joseph Abramov is the owner and founder of Urban Leaf, a new cannabis dispensary just a few minutes from Grand Central Station in Manhattan. He...
Happy weekend, everyone! Between stories about medical reciprocity legislation, coverage of regulators and guest columns by experts, we covered a lot of ground ā so...
New Yorkās Cannabis Control Board issued more than 100 cannabis business licenses on Friday, marking the first time regulators have issued general business licenses for...
New Jersey legal weed will be a $1 billion industry this year, the Cannabis Regulatory Commission says. āIām confident weāll reach and surpass that milestone...
On April 20, 2023, cannabis retail business Dazed Cannabis ā which owns two dispensaries in Massachusetts ā opened its first New York location in Manhattanās...
This guest column was written by Joe Rossi, the Cannabis Practice Group Leader at Park Strategies. The views and opinions expressed in this article are...
A āvocal minorityā of residents in a small, well-to-do Westchester town just north of New Canaan, Conn., are demanding municipal officials rethink allowing cannabis retail...
This guest column is from Colin Decker, owner and founder of 7 SEAZ, New Yorkās first legacy-to-legal adult-use cannabis brand, and owner of Hudson Valley-based...
A bill currently making its way through New Yorkās state legislature would allow medical cannabis patients from other states to buy weed at New York...
Jonpaul Pezzo is the owner and operator of NYC Bud, a retail cannabis dispensary located in the heart of Long Island City. He answered eight...
After operating in Liverpool since 2016, a medical marijuana dispensary plans to open in a larger location in DeWitt and begin selling recreational cannabis. PharmaCann,...
Katie Motta is the CEO of Jade Stone Branding, a company that seeks to disrupt tradition within the cannabis industry by replacing archaic stereotypes with...
Brandon Carter is a new business owner whose family has a history of cannabis arrests, and his dispensary is set to open on Feb. 29...
On Oct. 30, New York State senators heard over 10 hours of testimony from government officials, policy advisors, law enforcement personnel and business owners about...
Itās looking more and more like New York got mobile sports betting right. Wish we could say the same for the rollout of recreational cannabis....
Happy weekend, everyone, The groundhog yesterday said itāll be an early spring, while weather people disagree ā a classic case of nature versus science. While...
Complaints are piling up around the Office of Cannabis Managementās selection process for general licenses, and not just from those stakeholders who are suing the...
The adult-use weed train will finally arrive in Hoboken next week. The Station, a medicinal cannabis dispensary located near the Hoboken Terminal, will become the...
Jim McMahon has always been a wild card. On the field. Off the field. It always felt like you never knew exactly what the star...
Jeffrey Hoffman is a New York City-based attorney who hosts āAsk Me Anything about Cannabis Legalization in New Yorkā each week on LinkedIn. Hoffman and...
This guest column is from James B. Mann, an attorney specializing in cannabis tax and tax accounting issues. Mann has a J.D. from Harvard Law...
Jeffrey Hoffman is a New York City-based attorney who hosts āAsk Me Anything about Cannabis Legalization in New Yorkā each week on LinkedIn. Hoffman and...
Story by Ed Mahon of Spotlight PA This story first appeared in The Investigator, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring the best investigative and...
Happy weekend, everyone! This week NY Cannabis Insider dove into some under-covered issues in the weed industry, because weāre lucky enough to have readers who...
A Central New York business owned by a white man has filed a lawsuit against New Yorkās cannabis management agency accusing it of racial and...
Jeffrey Hoffman is a New York City-based attorney who hosts āAsk Me Anything about Cannabis Legalization in New Yorkā each week on LinkedIn. Hoffman and...