Lack of Cannabis Testing Applications delay Recreational Marijuana Sales in Massachusetts

No recreational cannabis testing laboratories have received regulators’ permission to open….So far, the commission has not received any completed license applications from independent testing labs, though one lab has begun its application. This has caused a delay in Recreational Marijuana Sales in Massachusetts. Source: You Won’t Be Able To Buy Legal Recreational Marijuana On July […]

California cannabis must meet higher standards by July 1st

July 1, 2018 represents Phase 2 of implementing compliance expectations for California Cannabis Businesses. As of January 1, the state’s emergency regulations require temporary licensees to document all sales and transfers of cannabis and cannabis products between temporary licensees—or between temporary licensees and annual licensees—by manually using paper sales invoices or shipping manifests. All annual […]

METRC

California Tracks Marijuana from Seed to Sale using METRC

As of January 2. 2018, the California Cannabis Commission tracks the marijuana supply chain from the point at which a plant is 8 inches tall through the point(s) of sale using METRC. “Rebecca Forée, a spokesperson for California Department of Food and Agriculture, explained via email. “Once we have completed and approved annual cannabis licenses […]

Private Companies Have No Incentive to Study Marijuana – Newsweek

With the legalization of marijuana becoming more common, there is a dearth of knowledge on the drug itself, after years of governmental restrictions on its study. This article, by issue editor Tim Baker and other articles about Marijuana in America, are included in the new NewsweekSpecial Edition, Weed U.S.A. Federal restrictions limiting legal cannabis to one source are […]

Compliance means Good Business 

As the Adilas420 team continues to assist clients with training and Seed to CPA software and assisting in Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) we often strive to define “compliance.” Many focus time to ensure the words on their SOP’s reflect procedures compliant with rules and regulations issued by the state, but struggle to implement the protocols […]

Inside Denver’s Pesticide-Free Marijuana Certification Program 

 A bill introduced to the state legislature in January would create a certification program for commercial marijuana growers to label their products “pesticide-free.” As the legal marijuana industry and the authorities that regulate it try to figure out the snowballing pesticide issue in Colorado’s cannabis products, state representatives Jonathan Singer of Longmont and KC Becker […]