Regulate California California Seed to Sale Introduction **Industry News: All three regulatory agencies overseeing the program have merged. See the new program website here** Recreational Marijuana in California On November 9, 2016, California voters legalized cannabis for adult use by responding yes to Proposition 64, the California Marijuana Legalization Initiative. Supporters referred to the initiative […]
Massachusetts voters on Tuesday approved a ballot question legalizing marijuana for recreational and commercial use, a decision that creates a major pot market on the U.S. eastern seaboard. Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. But in more than half of the United States, before the Nov. 8 election, marijuana has been legal in some […]
As Cannabis Regulation progresses, states are mandating seed to sale tracking systems. These tracking systems allow the state and businesses owners to maintain valuable data. Software is used to track the number of plants, plant production, manufacturing, sales and distribution. Licensees may use (and may be required to use) their own business software in addition […]
Regulate Arizona Intro To Arizona Seed to Sale **Industry News: AZDHS Opens Social Equity Application Enrollment on December 1, 2021** Recreational Marijuana in AZ Arizona voters approved Adult Use or recreational marijuana through a ballot initiative in 2020. Proposition 207 (the Marijuana Legalization Initiative) states that AZDHS began accepting applications for retail licenses on January […]
After decades of prohibition in the US, at the federal level, states have begun regulating cannabis sales. Under the Obama Administration the Department of Justice has issued memo’s supporting a states right to regulate cannabis sales so long as it did not contradict federal priorities.Currently, Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia (DC) currently have laws […]
While it is critical for the industry to determine rules, regulations and standards for pesticide use and quality control, the Colorado Governor has set unrealistic and unenforceable standards for Colorado Cultivation Facilities. More than a year after the city of Denver first started actively policing the marijuana industry’s use of pesticides, the city’s health department […]
If there’s one thing that Massachusetts public officials — Democrat and Republican, urban and suburban, local and state — seem to agree on lately, it’s that the voters should not legalize marijuana at the polls this November. First, the governor, the mayor of Boston and the attorney general (or, apparently, their staffs) penned a joint op-ed in The Boston Globe poo-pooing the proposed […]
COLUMBUS — After Ohio voters resoundingly defeated an ill-formed effort to legalize marijuana last fall, everyone started talking about “doing something” on medical marijuana. The idea was popular with voters: As many as 90 percent of Ohioans say patients should be allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes approved by a doctor. And 23 states already allow some form of […]
Because he’s a scientist, not a back-slapping venture capitalist, Mowgli Holmes loathes using the term networking to describe even the portion of his job that entails shaking hands in the cannabis industry. But it was networking that brought the chief scientific officer of Phylos Bioscience in Portland, Oregon, to Las Vegas in November 2014 to attend the […]
Liberal-leaning Vermont legislature could become the first U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use, rather than by voter initiative, in a move that advocates for the drug say could speed its acceptance across the nation. State representatives this month are set to take up a bill passed by the state Senate in February that […]
