Zack Huffman

2 days ago | news.crbmonitor.com | Zack Huffman

Pennsylvania Republican senators firmly oppose state-run dispensaries, and they are not the first lawmakers to reject the idea. The latest attempt to legalize adult-use in Pennsylvania hit a wall this week. The Republican-controlled Senate Committee on Law & Justice shut down the latest Democratic attempt to legalize adult use, 7-3, during a hearing on May 13. State Rep. Rick Krajewski (D) introduced on May 4, and the House passed it 102-101 on May 7.

1 week ago | news.crbmonitor.com | Zack Huffman

States choosing to legalize cannabis have always had to deal with legally grown products spreading into communities where it might still be illegal. But as a greater number of states opt in to legal cannabis, concerns are growing over illegal product flowing into their legal markets. Originally the threat was diversion, now it’s inversion. Most recently, the inversion problem has come to New York, where dispensary openings are starting to outpace new cultivation licenses.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Zack Huffman

Texas is not the first, nor is it the only state currently attempting to regulate or outright ban hemp, but the sheer size of Texas and its own hemp industry beg the question: Has hemp become too big to ban? The 2018 Farm Bill, once it was passed into law, removed intoxicating hemp from the Controlled Substances Act based on the measurement of one specific cannabinoid, delta-9 THC.

2 weeks ago | news.crbmonitor.com | Zack Huffman

Sixteen months after issuing a restraining order that an appellate court recently overturned, a Montgomery County judge officially ended the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission’s third attempt to issue licenses and launch the state’s medical market. In the case of Jemmstone Alabama LLC et. al. v. Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission et. al., Montgomery Circuit Court Judge James Anderson declared on April 21 that the integrated facility licenses awarded on Dec.

3 weeks ago | news.crbmonitor.com | Zack Huffman

Missouri has once again eliminated a portion of the social equity microbusiness licenses it selected during last summer’s lottery due to ownership concerns. The Missouri Department of Cannabis Regulation revoked 25 of the 57 microbusiness licenses it awarded in July, or 43%. All but one of the rejected businesses failed to show they were majority owned by social equity-eligible individuals. The remaining revocation was for a disqualifying felony.