Massachusetts Department of Health Continues To Issue Marijuana Dispensary Licenses 

NEW BEDFORD — Beacon Compassion received a provisional license for New Bedford from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Thursday, Stephen Angelo, the executive director of the company told The Standard-Times. Angelo described the license as “the first step” in a longer journey for the marijuana dispensary… The next phases of the project include developing […]

New Legislation Introduced to Reschedule Marijuana

New legislation introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, both Oregon Democrats, would take marijuana off the list of federally banned drugs, tax marijuana at a rate similar to alcohol and tobacco, and end the threat of federal criminal penalties for businesses operating in states that allow the use of pot for recreational […]

Massachusetts Expected to Generate $64M in Recreational Marijuana Taxes Next Year

A new analysis projects that the legal marijuana market in Massachusetts will generate $64 million in state tax revenue in its first year. Retail marijuana sales are now slated to begin on July 1, 2018 after lawmakers pushed the date out by six months to allow for more time to establish regulations. The law, approved by 54 […]

Canada Is Going to Legalize Marijuana in 2018 | Time.com

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government will introduce legislation to legalize recreational marijuana the week of April 10th and it should become law by July next year… Trudeau has long promised to legalize recreational pot use and sales. Canada would be the largest developed country to end a nationwide prohibition of recreational marijuana. In the […]

More medical marijuana licenses in Maryland could be awarded.

General Assembly leaders have coalesced around a plan to issue an additional five medical marijuana growing licenses and increase the likelihood several of those lucrative deals went to minority-owned companies. The deal, though, falls short of demands lodged by the influential Legislative Black Caucus, which wanted to disband the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission and put […]

Could Illinois be next to legalize recreational marijuana?

Illinois lawmakers propose legalizing recreational marijuana, but a vote is not expected until next year. The state would license and regulate businesses to grow, process and sell the plant, and it would establish safety regulations such as testing and labeling requirements, sponsors said. The measure would also allow residents to possess up to 28 grams […]

9 Tips for Selecting and Implementing Your Seed to Sale Software System

We are not going to reinvent the wheel here.. or pretend like the cannabis industry is different from every other industry. Companies transition to new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software all the time, in every industry. This happens as new and improving software and technologies advance. Below, we will outline 9 Tips for Selecting and […]

METRC

Colorado Uses METRC Track and Trace Software

About Track and Trace Software METRC As described on METRC’s website: ” Metrc® is a regulatory compliance management solution used as a tool by government regulatory bodies for the oversight and compliance management of recreational and medical marijuana programs. Metrc is an online soft-ware reporting system for use by legally state licensed producers, processors, wholesalers, […]