
10/20/2019
Three years after legalizing adult-use ma*****na, the state’s still waiting for retail shops. Consultants say the economy paid the price as dollars and expertise went elsewhere.
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Three years after legalizing adult-use ma*****na, the state’s still waiting for retail shops. Consultants say the economy paid the price as dollars and expertise went elsewhere.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/04/22/maine-releases-draft-recreational-ma*****na-rules/
Proposed regulations, made public at the request of the Press Herald, cover everything from licensing, inventory tracking and enforcement to advertising, packaging and labeling.
Developers looking ahead to Maine's recreational ma*****na market plan to invest $6 million to $7 million this year setting up the site off Minot Avenue.
It’s not legalization, but it’s still a big change in ma*****na policy.
Around 54,000 ma*****na convictions in Los Angeles and San Joaquin counties are eligible to be expunged.
Even as cannabis legalization has spread throughout the country, the unexplored territory has been passing laws that allow people to smoke outside their homes. As things currently stand in states where ma*****na is legal, you can only smoke in your home, whether that's stated explicitly or not. Usin...
Home Grown Maine 2017. Trade show and expo. New England’s Best Medical Ma*****na Expo is coming back to the Augusta Civic Center!
More blood pressure drugs are being recalled after being found to contain trace amounts of a potentially cancer-causing ingredient, one of a slew of recalls of medications to treat hypertension.
The city announced that more than 9,000 ma*****na-related convictions will be cleared. California voters legalized recreational ma*****na in 2016.
https://americanconsequences.com/the-future-of-legal-ma*****na/
June 2018 The Future of Legal Ma*****na A Conversation with Matt McCall Matt McCall is the founder and president of Penn Financial Group – an investment advisory firm designed to guide its clients toward financial freedom. He is also the editor of Matt McCall’s Investment Opportunities and Early...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) took ma*****na reform supporters by pleasant surprise when he endorsed legalization last year after previously calling cannabis a “gateway drug” that should remain prohibited. But for advocates, there was at least one major disappointment in store when he got aroun...
Ma*****na is such a confounding drug that scientists and law enforcement are struggling to create an objective standard for ma*****na intoxication.
The foot-dragging by legislators is making the black market thrive
The dispensary owners attribute the decline to increased and unfair competition that forces them to cut prices, driving down revenue even more.
Despite the fits and starts with Maine’s emerging ma*****na industry, businesses are cautiously preparing for a run at the adult-use market.
City councilors to consider ma*****na rules Thursday that include no provisions allowing commercial sales, processing or growing of ma*****na.
The City Council postpones a vote at the request of Councilor Belinda Ray, who plans to offer 2 amendments but missed the meeting because of an illness.
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https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/01/state-orders-stores-to-remove-edible-cbd-from-shelves/
The Department of Health and Human Services says the hemp-derived product is not a federally approved food additive.
Both CBS and the NFL lag far behind the American public on the subject of medical ma*****na.
NEW HAVEN - A new billboard put up by the app company W**dmaps on Interstate 91 is announcing that "w**d is legal 60 miles away." The message is likely referring to the recent opening of the New England Treatment Access adult-use cannabis sales store in Northampton, Mass. - about an hour's drive fro...
All stoners have their favorite munchies...but these 15 top the list.
What is believed to be Maine’s first medical ma*****na convenience store is scheduled to open in Portland this week.
BOTEC, which advised Washington state on launching its adult-use market, submitted the lowest bid – $199,000 – of the five applicants.
Altria is investing nearly $2 billion for a huge minority stake in Canadian cannabis company Cronos. The Marlboro owner is taking a 45% stake, with the option of boosting it to 55% over the next few years.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/12/04/maines-ma*****na-advisory-commission-taking-shape/
Among those named so far to the 15-member Ma*****na Advisory Commission are state legislators, a lawyer and lobbyists.
How the legalization movement demystified ma*****na for first-time users, who are nudging a new industry to go upscale.
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The two stores that opened last week reported a combined $2,2 million in sales.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/27/portland-planning-board-oks-new-ma*****na-zoning-map/
The proposal, which now goes before the City Council, would allow adult-use businesses in the same zones where the city permitted medical dispensaries and their grow operations in 2010.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/29/questions-lead-to-delay-in-cannabis-consulting-contract/
The state received several questions on its call for a consultant to guide the rule-making around cannabis regulations, prompting it to extend the bidding deadline.
Hempy Halloween!
A driver in Dartmouth, N.S., was the first person to be ticketed in the province for not securing cannabis out of reach while operating a motor vehicle.
Canada became the world's largest pot marketplace.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/09/cannabis-industry-professionals-gather-in-portland/
A Washington, D.C.-based trade group is told that Maine's adult-use ma*****na law isn't likely to be fully implemented until next fall.
City Hall officials said they would negotiate Boston’s first host community agreements with ma*****na operators in early October.
Cannabidiol is truly one of the most remarkable compounds in the natural world.
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