BudDigest

Cookies’ Berner Joins Forces with Last Prisoner Project in Campaign to #FreeRobertDeals

FREE Breaking News Alerts from StreetInsider.com!

StreetInsider.com Top Tickers, 11/29/2023

November 29, 2023 9:02 AM EST

The Effort Aims to Bring Attention to the Unjust Cannabis Incarceration of Robert Deals

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Last Prisoner Project (LPP) has teamed up with the renowned cannabis industry entrepreneur Berner, Co-Founder and CEO of Cookies, to launch the #FreeRobertDeals campaign. The collaboration seeks to spotlight the unjust imprisonment of Robert Deals, a 10-year Air Force veteran currently serving his 12th year of an 18-year sentence in a Yuma, Arizona prison for cannabis-related charges.

The #FreeRobertDeals campaign aims to raise awareness about the injustice of Robert Deals’ case, prompt action towards securing his release, and reunite him with his family. Alicia Deals, Robert’s daughter, has turned her family’s biggest burden into their family’s biggest blessing by opening the first Cookies dispensary with a social equity license in Arizona and using her platform to advocate for her father’s release. “We are using the power of our growing voice to raise awareness about

Read More Here...

From the Earth Voted 2023’s Best Kansas City Dispensary by The Pitch Magazine

FREE Breaking News Alerts from StreetInsider.com!

StreetInsider.com Top Tickers, 11/29/2023

November 29, 2023 8:32 AM EST

Local Cannabis Group Continues to Accrue Accolades

Kansas City, Missouri–(Newsfile Corp. – November 29, 2023) – From the Earth, a line of premiere dispensaries in and around Kansas City, Missouri, has won The Pitch Magazine’s “Best Dispensary” category in the 2023 “Best of KC” awards.

This award for best dispensary in Kansas City, voted on by The Pitch’s readers, is the most recent in From the Earth’s impressive list of accolades. This year, From the Earth’s sister brand, Illicit, won several categories in The Pitch’s reader-selected awards, including “Best Flower,” “Best Concentrate/Dab,” and “Best Vape Cartridge Brand.” The brand also won “Company of the Year,” “Product of the Year,” “Best Packaging Design,” and “Best Live Resin Vape” in Greenway Magazine’s 2023 Reader’s Choice Awards.

This most recent award is well-deserved as From the Earth continues to push the envelope by producing access to high-quality, affordable flower and innovative cannabis products. The dispensary has recently

Read More Here...

This section is Partnership Content supplied

The content in this section is supplied by GlobeNewswire for the purposes of distributing press releases on behalf of its clients. Postmedia has not reviewed the content.

by GlobeNewswire

CHICAGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — RISE Dispensaries, a rapidly growing cannabis retail chain owned by Green Thumb Industries Inc. (“Green Thumb” or the “Company”) (CSE: GTII) (OTCQX: GTBIF), today announced that it will open two RISE Dispensaries in Florida, with one located in Tampa and the other located in Crystal River, on December 1. These store openings bring the Company’s retail footprint to 13 in Florida and 89 nationwide. RISE Dispensary Tampa will host a grand opening celebration on December 16, where profits from the day will be donated to Tu Canna Foundation. RISE Dispensary Crystal River will host a grand opening celebration on December 15, with profits benefitting The Bridge 4 Veterans.

“We are extremely excited to deepen our presence on the west coast of Florida with two new RISE Dispensaries in Tampa and Crystal River,” said Green Thumb President Anthony Georgiadis. “As with previous store openings, we continue our tradition of giving back to the community, and we look forward to supporting two incredible local non-profit partners, Tu Canna Foundation and The Bridge 4 Veterans.”

Tampa-based Tu Canna Foundation promotes wellness advocacy and holistic education in their community, with a strong focus

Read More Here...

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has called for a 15-store cap on cannabis dispensaries in the state as it looks to implement its new cannabis legalisation plans.

New Hampshire recently implemented bill HB 611 in preparation for the legalisation of cannabis.

Governor Sununu signed the bill that will establish both eligibility criteria for the therapeutic cannabis programme and establish a commission to study state-controlled sales of cannabis.

At the time of singing, Sununu stated that establishing a commission to study state-controlled sales would bring stakeholders from across New Hampshire together to ensure that children’s safety is a number one priority.

Now, Sununi has introduced new requirements if the plans are to be implemented including a 15-store cap and a ban on lobbying and political contributions by any licensee, reports the New Hampshire Bulletin.

New Hampshire’s proposed model would see dispensaries run in a franchise-model and there had been suggestions to cap this at a similar level to the number of liquor stores in the state.

The publication reports that Governor Sununu’s adviser on addiction and behavioural health, David Mara, stated that Sununu’s office is “adamant” about capping the number of stores at 15 but that this could change in

Read More Here...

Green Thumb Industries Inc. announced that it will open two RISE Dispensaries in Florida, with one located in Tampa and the other located in Crystal River, on December 1. These store openings bring the Company’s retail footprint to 13 in Florida and 89 nationwide. RISE Dispensary Tampa will host a grand opening celebration on December 16, where profits from the day will be donated to Tu Canna Foundation. RISE Dispensary Crystal River will host a grand opening celebration On December 15, with profits benefitting The Bridge 4 Veterans.

Through veteran retreats, expungement clinics, non-profit partnerships, local outreach opportunities, food banks, legal services and more, Tu Canna Foundation improves the lives of others both physically and physically. The Bridge 4 Veterans provides transitional housing for veterans as they work towards securing permanent housing. The organization welcomes veterans and offers resources, such as VA HUD-VASH programs, that help them find and maintain affordable housing in their community.

The Bridge 4 Veterans is a free-of-charge organization that runs entirely on private donations, for both financial support and food. In addition to RISE Tampa and Crystal River, there are 11 other RISE Dispensaries inFlorida, including locations in Bonita Springs, Brandon, Clearwater, Deerfield Beach, Fruitland Park, Hallandale

Read More Here...

For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun.

In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he stormed out of the office, threatening vengeance.

At a nearby gun store, she settled on a .22 caliber pistol that “felt good in my hand.” Then came the problem. A question on the firearms transaction form she was required to complete asked whether she was an “unlawful user” of marijuana or any other drug categorized by the federal government as a controlled substance.

Ms. Cooper is registered in Florida’s medical marijuana program and relies on the drug to ease her chronic knee pain and sleeplessness. She answered the query accordingly, and was told that as long as she held a marijuana card, buying a gun was not possible.

“I’d feel safer with a gun,” she said. But without the marijuana before bed, she said, she couldn’t sleep anyway. It was a tough choice.

There are relatively few limitations at the federal level on who is eligible to purchase or possess firearms and

Read More Here...

FREDONIA – Someone wants to put a cannabis dispensary in downtown Fredonia, but it’s probably not going to get approved by the state because it’s too close to Fredonia Central School District property.

Fredonia Trustee Jon Espersen reported that at a Board of Trustees meeting Monday. Espersen founded, and chairs, a cannabis advisory committee to help the village navigate the state’s legalization of the drug.

Espersen did not name the applicant, but told the OBSERVER newspaper the intended site is within 500 feet of the Orange Bowl, where Fredonia High School’s football team plays home games. That means, in his opinion, the state Office of Cannabis Management is highly unlikely to approve the dispensary.

The cannabis advisory committee will meet Dec. 13 at 6 p.m. in Village Hall, Espersen said Monday. He said “they will meet with a party that expressed an interest in opening a grower’s showcase in the village. I want to mention (the cannabis committee) meetings are open to the public.”

Espersen said, “We have 30 days to respond to the state and in our response, the cannabis advisory committee would like it to be stated that the location selected doesn’t meet state minimum distance requirements.

Read More Here...

Published November 29th, 2023 at 12:03 am

Following a local dispensary’s very public fall from grace, New Mexico’s marijuana regulators clarify that an amount of THC exceeding the legal limit of “hemp” is enough to categorize a product as “cannabis,” and place it under the state’s regulatory authority—no matter how it was sourced.

Earlier this year, a judge ordered Albuquerque dispensary Sawmill Sweet Leaf to shut its doors after Cannabis Control Division (CCD) staffers found out-of-state products on the shop’s shelves and an unlicensed and unpermitted THC extraction operation in the back.

When it came to the out-of-state cannabis products, Sawmill Sweet Leaf initially told CCD staffers that they contained Delta-8 THC, an unregulated compound that’s sourced either from the marijuana plant itself or, more commonly, synthesized from CBD. According to the dispensary, the CCD should have had no regulatory authority over the products in this case.

Delta-8 THC is not the same THC you find listed on cannabis product labels in New Mexico dispensaries. Those labels are referring to Delta-9 THC, the compound usually associated with the psychotropic effects of weed and regulated by the state. Delta-8 THC only shows up in trace amounts in weed plants, and it’s

Read More Here...

FREDONIA – Someone wants to put a cannabis dispensary in downtown Fredonia, but it’s probably not going to get approved by the state because it’s too close to Fredonia Central School District property.

Fredonia Trustee Jon Espersen reported that at a Board of Trustees meeting Monday. Espersen founded, and chairs, a cannabis advisory committee to help the village navigate the state’s legalization of the drug.

Espersen did not name the applicant, but told the OBSERVER newspaper the intended site is within 500 feet of the Orange Bowl, where Fredonia High School’s football team plays home games. That means, in his opinion, the state Office of Cannabis Management is highly unlikely to approve the dispensary.

The cannabis advisory committee will meet Dec. 13 at 6 p.m. in Village Hall, Espersen said Monday. He said “they will meet with a party that expressed an interest in opening a grower’s showcase in the village. I want to mention (the cannabis committee) meetings are open to the public.”

Espersen said, “We have 30 days to respond to the state and in our response, the cannabis advisory committee would like it to be stated that the location selected doesn’t meet state minimum distance requirements.

Read More Here...