Month: March 2021 (Page 12)

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Alaska officials are pressing a criminal case against two associated cannabis businesses that are accused of falsifying business records, misusing pesticides, pesticide pollution and reckless endangerment. Ronald and Lacey Bass, owners of cultivator Calm N Collective and retailer Houston Grass Station, also have been charged, according to the Anchorage DailyContinue Reading

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The chief executive of the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) said growing regulated recreational marijuana sales in Canada’s most-populous province depends on more brick-and-mortar stores opening in certain communities. OCS President and CEO Thomas Haig made the comments in his introduction to the OCS’ third-quarter report, which covers the period betweenContinue Reading

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Harborside said Monday that it has thrown $5 million in investment capital behind Loudpack, another well-known California marijuana business. According to a news release, Oakland-based Harborside provided the funding for the “strategic investment” through a 15% secured convertible note, on which payment is due in December 2022. Loudpack CEO MarcContinue Reading

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“Everything I dreamt and hoped to have accomplished in this industry has come to fruition. I am truly living the dream.” That’s how marijuana-industry pioneer Greta Carter began a conversation with Marijuana Business Daily for an interview to mark March’s Women’s History Month as well as International Women’s Day, whichContinue Reading

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An aspiring cannabis business owner who says she has lived in or around Detroit most of her life is suing the city for allegedly discriminating against marijuana business license applicants who don’t meet the definition of who qualifies as a resident. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Wayne County CircuitContinue Reading

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A California Superior Court judge ruled that a marijuana testing lab can reopen immediately after having to close in January because regulators revoked its license. Judge Frank Roesch wrote in his ruling late Thursday that the state Bureau of Cannabis Control was “prohibited from enforcing the ‘revocation’ issued” last month toContinue Reading

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Slightly more than one-third of Canadians who use cannabis increased their consumption during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a new Statistics Canada report on pandemic-era alcohol and marijuana use. The report offers new insights into why Canadian cannabis users might have increased their marijuana use during the public-health crisis. SixteenContinue Reading