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The first medical cannabis dispensary in North Carolina opened for business on 4/20, serving patients registered with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Cannabis Control Board and cardholders from other state or tribal programs.

Combined medical and adult-use cannabis sales totaled just under $125 million in March, setting a new monthly cannabis sales record for the state.

Ohio is one step closer to launching its adult-use cannabis marketplace after state regulators last week released their latest draft rules for the industry, which cover retail-focused provisions including online sales and curbside pick-up and industry-wide mandatory waste disposal practices.

Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed the state’s proposal to legalize adult-use cannabis sales, extending the illicit market’s monopoly on cannabis sales for at least another year.

Arizona cannabis retailers sold $1.43 billion worth of product last year including $1.1 billion in adult-use sales and $348 million under the state’s medical cannabis program.

A recent CBD Oracle report found that hemp products being sold on Amazon — despite the platform’s policy banning hemp-derived cannabinoids — are deceptively labeled with 30% containing undeclared CBD and 36% containing no hemp at all.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes ruled that hemp-derived delta-8 THC cannabis products cannot be sold by companies that do not hold an adult-use cannabis license.

As the Minnesota cannabis industry awaits a possible launch in 2025, officials have warned hemp product retailers that inspectors will begin examining their hemp flower products to make sure they do not exceed the 0.3% delta-9 THC potency limits.

New Jersey’s cannabis sales have reached over $2 billion since 2018, with a significant boost from the adult-use market launched two years ago, as reported by the state’s top cannabis regulator to lawmakers.

Virginia’s legislative chambers are advancing separate proposals to begin regulated adult-use cannabis sales by next year.

About one-third of cannabis consumers say that if the expected federal shift to Schedule III were to require prescription-based transactions at pharmacies instead of the well-established dispensary model, they would go back to relying on the illicit market.

In a recent report prefacing the state’s upcoming adult-use cannabis market, Minnesota officials said they will need to license at least 381 cannabis dispensaries to satisfy the state’s legalization law.

Canadian cannabis operators destroyed a record amount of legal cannabis in 2022 and 2023. Since the market’s 2018 launch, licensees have now destroyed about 3.7 million pounds of product, largely due to the products being too old or low-quality.