Latest Cannabis News: November 29, 2022
Latest Cannabis News: November 29, 2022
Stay up to date with the latest legalization and cannabis news with the C.B. Advisors. Every week, we will release a snippet of what’s happening with each state in the cannabis industry. Did you miss last week? No worries – click here for last week’s cannabis news.
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Kentucky: Legislation is currently pending in Kentucky, House Bill 521 and Senate Bill 186, which seeks to legalize the possession, cultivation, and use of medical cannabis and adult-use cannabis by individuals age 21 and older in the state, as well as establish a regulatory framework for retail sales.
This legislation, the L.E.T.T.’s (Legalize, Expunge, Treat, and Tax) Grow Bill, creates a Cannabis Control Board to regulate both medical and adult-use cannabis markets. It outlines social equity provisions for the board and industry at large, provides employment protections for lawful cannabis consumers, and permits individuals with prior marijuana-related misdemeanor convictions to petition the courts for the expungement of their criminal records.
Wyoming: Legislation is currently pending in Wyoming, House Bill 143, which seeks to create the Wyoming Patient Cannabis Act of 2022 and establish a regulatory framework for the retail sales and licensing of medical marijuana.
If passed, the bill would provide for the operation of medical marijuana establishments, prevent local regulation prohibiting the development or operation of medical marijuana establishments, and prevent the prescription of synthetic marijuana. It outlines more than sixteen qualifying conditions and symptoms for enrollment in the program. Patients would be able to possess up to four ounces of cannabis flower and up to twenty grams of product within a thirty day period. They would also be able to home cultivate no more than eight mature marijuana plants.
Source: https://norml.org/act/wyoming-legislation-to-establish-a-medical-cannabis-program/
Medical
Alabama: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey named three appointments to the state’s new Medical Cannabis Commission that will administer much of the business licensing and regulation of the state’s MMJ market.
The 14-member regulatory body was created under the state’s MMJ law approved by the Legislature in May, AL.com reported. The three new appointments to the commission are:
Sam Blakemore, a pharmacist at Children’s of Alabama hospital in Birmingham.
Dr. William Saliski Jr., a pulmonologist from Montgomery. Dwight Gamble, a bank executive from Headland. The commission that will tap a director to manage the program.
Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/alabama-adds-three-members-to-medical-cannabis-commission/
Recreational
Connecticut: Since Connecticut approved recreational pot over a year ago, the process of licensing and building out the state’s market has been a slow burn.
But regulators said this week that approved marijuana businesses are on track to launch retail sales within the next few months — delayed from their original timeline, but in keeping with more recent estimates.
In an announcement Tuesday, the Department of Consumer Protection said the supply chain was close to reaching the 250,000 square feet of licensed growing and manufacturing space required by law in order for sales of recreational marijuana to commence.
Source: https://ctmirror.org/2022/11/25/ct-recreational-pot-dispensary-weed-sales/
Michigan: The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) is committed to continuous improvement and announced today a new process by which social equity program participants – whose prequalification status has expired – are now eligible to apply anew for prequalification without having to pay an additional application fee.
While social equity applicants will be required to submit a new prequalification application to start the background review process, a new application fee will not be charged.
Nevada: Nevada marijuana regulators announced on Wednesday that they will be holding lotteries at the end of the month to select 20 independent cannabis consumption lounge licensees, half of which will be reserved for social equity applicants.
The state Cannabis Compliance Board (CCB) said it will conduct “two drawings via a random number selector” on November 30 to determine which businesses will be the first to receive approval for independent consumption lounge licenses.
New York: New York on Monday issued its first 36 licenses for dispensaries, which will become the only places in the state where recreational marijuana is sold legally.
The state, though, has had to delay plans to authorize scores more dispensaries because of a legal battle over its licensing criteria.
U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe in Albany blocked the state from issuing licenses in Brooklyn and swaths of upstate New York after a company owned by a Michigan resident challenged a requirement that applicants demonstrate “a significant presence in New York state.”
In a court filing Tuesday, the state asked the judge to loosen that injunction to prevent jeopardizing a marijuana harvest worth an estimated $1.5 billion, now waiting to be distributed to retailers. The court filing, made on behalf of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management, suggested that the company challenging its exclusion from the applicant pool, Variscite NY One, would most likely only be considered for a dispensary in the Finger Lakes region in the state’s center.
Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2022/11/28/new-yorks-first-cannabis-crop-jeopardized-by-court-fight/
Oregon: Oregon takes action granting pardons to over 45,000 people with marijuana possession following Biden’s federal clemency.
Gov. Kate Brown announced on Monday is pardoning 47,144 people with convictions for possessing a small amount of marijuana and forgiving more than $14 million in unpaid fines and fees.
Rhode Island: The governor of Rhode Island announced on Tuesday that the state’s first adult-use marijuana retail sales will begin next week, on December 1.
Gov. Dan McKee (D) and the state Department of Business Regulation (DBR) said that five existing medical cannabis dispensaries have been licensed as “hybrid” retailers that will be the first to serve adults 21 and older. The announcement comes two weeks after Rhode Island voters in more than 30 cities were asked to decide on whether or not to allow cannabis businesses to operate within their jurisdictions. Almost all of those cities opted in to marijuana commerce.
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