Dispensaries

The chairman of the dispensary subcommittee of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission is suggesting for dispensaries to resemble pharmacies in the state.

A Massachusetts cannabis dispensary won the right to operate for-profit after the state Supreme Court ruled that the town of Mansfield’s bylaws were preempted by the state’s legalization law.

California dispensary March and Ash is pushing back against the unregulated cannabis market in unincorporated San Diego County with an anti-racketeering lawsuit.

Leafly has filed a legal challenge against restrictions imposed by Florida’s Department of Health which banned Florida dispensaries from utilizing the website’s online ordering tools.

Danielle Marzarella is the Vice President of Business Strategy & Design Development for SevenPoint Interiors, a Toronto-based and cannabis-focused interior design firm.

Home prices in states with adult-use cannabis laws grew an average of $17,113 more over four years than in states where cannabis remained prohibited.

Adults aged 18-23-years-old that reside near cannabis retailers are no more likely to be interested in cannabis or tobacco than those who do not, suggests a new study.

Many standalone dispensaries in D.C. are direct competitors with their suppliers, which is causing product shortages for retailers who aren’t vertically integrated.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe has filed civil actions in Tribal Court against businesses they claim opened illegally to sell adult-use cannabis without permission from the tribe.

For D.C.’s fledgling medical cannabis industry, the pandemic brought significant challenges as businesses looked for ways to accommodate patients without putting them at risk of contracting a potentially deadly disease.

The licensing of new Rhode Island medical cannabis operators has been delayed until at least August after an applicant appealed their exclusion from the licensing lottery.

Employees at three March and Ash dispensaries in the greater San Diego area voted last week to join United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135.

Kathryn Blackwell & Chelsea Mulligan are co-founders of The Open Dør, an Arizona-based cannabis dispensary franchising firm.

The city of Denver is set to license new cannabis businesses for the first time since 2016 but new applicants must meet the city’s social equity requirements, and some neighborhoods will be excluded as they are already oversaturated with cannabis businesses.

Two medical cannabis companies are suing Miami, Florida for the city’s refusal to allow dispensaries.

Mark Kuhn is the CEO of Oat Foundry, a Philadelphia-based engineering design firm.

Ohio’s Board of Pharmacy approved raising the state’s number of licensed medical cannabis dispensaries from 60 to 130.

An investigation into whether California cannabis dispensaries sell to underage customers found 100% of the shops investigated to be fully compliant with age-verification ID checks.

Workers at the Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth, Rhode Island have voted to join the UFCW Local 328.

The recently opened Legal Greens in Brockton, Massachusetts is the first Black woman-owned recreational cannabis dispensary on the East Coast.

Portland, Maine is expecting dozens of new cannabis businesses to open up in the coming weeks, about five months after the launch of adult-use sales in the state.

Oakland’s Purple Heart, the city’s longest-running cannabis dispensary, is still working towards reopening after the business was besieged by criminals amidst last year’s sweeping social justice protests.

A recent survey of potential American home buyers found that just 46 percent of respondents would be willing to buy a house within one mile of a cannabis dispensary.