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Brooklyn’s first Black female-owned legal marijuana shop opened its doors Thursday. Mayor Eric Adams and other city leaders were on hand to celebrate the opening in Park Slope.
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Joe MarusakFebruary 29, 2024 at 3:35 PM
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina has set an opening date for the only dispensary in the state to legally buy marijuana.
In a historic vote on Sept. 7, 2023, tribal members overwhelmingly approved adult use of marijuana on tribal land. The tribe on the 57,000-acre Qualla Boundary had already approved the use and controlled sale of medical cannabis.
Elder Cherokee women work together to trim leaves from dried cannabis stems for the flowers, so the remaining buds can be collected and used as product.
The tribe plans to open the dispensary on April 20, Lee Griffin, human resources director for the tribe’s cannabis subsidiary, Qualla Enterprises LLC, told the tribal council during a council work session on Wednesday.
April 20 is recognized by marijuana users and producers as the national cannabis holiday.
“Across the country, it’s the biggest revenue date for cannabis,” Griffin said, according to a Charlotte Observer review of the tribe’s recording of the meeting. “It’s like New Year’s Eve at the casino.”
A hoop house is teeming with flowering cannabis plants on a farm owned and operated by Qualla Enterprises, LLC in Cherokee, NC. Cannabis plants reach the flowering stage after eight
Maryland cannabis company Curio Wellness was fined $26,000 by state regulators for reselling marijuana products some of its employees retrieved from a dumpster just weeks after adult-use sales began in the state.
An inventory manager identified as A.J. at Curio’s Far & Dotter dispensary, on the north side of Baltimore, alerted the Maryland Cannabis Administration last year to the episode, The Baltimore Banner reported.
According to an order from the MCA, the agency investigated and found that 224 grams – roughly half a pound – of cannabis product was thrown into a dumpster behind the dispensary on July 25, after the recreational market kickstarted on July 1.
Then on July 27, a trio of employees from the shop dug the goods out of the dumpster and took them back inside the store, where the manager on duty insisted on repackaging the marijuana and selling it, The Banner reported.
Curio disputed the characterization of the manager insisting on selling the cannabis in question, The Banner reported. Nevertheless, the dumpster cannabis – which needed repackaging because the original packaging was covered in some kind of “liquid” from the trash – was sold for $3,174.50.
The inventory manager who blew the whistle, A.J., said
CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today announced that applications for Round II of the Cannabis Social Equity Loan Program are open. Through the program, $12 million is available through Direct Forgivable Loans (DFL) fully financed by the State. Loan amounts, up to $240,000, will be provided to qualified, licensed social equity dispensaries.
“In Illinois, equity is front and center in our work to expand the legal cannabis industry,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “Thanks to my administration’s Cannabis Social Equity Loan Program, a new wave of entrepreneurs impacted by the failed war on drugs will be able to access forgivable, low interest loans to start their business.”
“Social equity has been at the core of our work in expanding access to capital in the cannabis industry,” said Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton. “As Chair of the Restore, Reinvest and Renew (R3) Program board, I’m thrilled communities that have suffered decades of disinvestment will have more opportunities in this space. There is no justice without equity.”
After providing approximately $22 million through Round I of the Cannabis Social Equity Loan Program to infusers, transporters and craft growers, DCEO is opening Round II for dispensaries. Eligible applicants
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The company celebrated on Feb. 23 as it expanded its brand to Scottsdale for the first time, hosting a grand opening party with music, swag bags, nonmedicated tacos and ticket giveaways to “Bob Marley: One Love.” Because, of course, they did.
The Scottsdale dispensary is Mint’s sixth store in the Valley — the fifth one opened in the West Valley in February 2023 — along with six dispensaries in Michigan and one in Missouri. Located at 8729 E. Manzanita Drive, it is not far from Talking Stick Resort.
Cannabis fans know Mint for opening a first-of-its-kind cannabis kitchen in 2018, adding a drive-thru in 2020
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BALTIMORE — A Maryland dispensary has been fined $26,000 for selling cannabis that sat in a dumpster for two days, according to a consent order from the Maryland Cannabis Administration.
According to the consent order, 224 grams of cannabis were thrown into a dumpster outside Curio’s Far & Dotter dispensary, where it sat for 41 hours and nine minutes.
Surveillance footage showed three dispensary employees retrieving four boxes containing the pre-packaged product from the dumpster. More footage showed another employee then repackage the cannabis, removing them from the original boxes, and placing them into plastic bags, before storing them inside a vault.
The employee informed an investigator from the MCA, that the cannabis had to be placed in the plastic bags because the original packages were covered in a liquid substance acquired from the dumpster, according to the order.
In an email, an inventory manager said he advised that the product be destroyed as it violates several compliance requirements, but management “insisted on not losing profit.” Then, the location sold the product between July 28 and August 3, 2023, raking in a total of $3,174.50 in sales.
The manager’s employment at Far & Dotter was “terminated” on or about Aug. 20, 2023, according
BALTIMORE — A Maryland dispensary has been fined $26,000 for selling cannabis that sat in a dumpster for two days, according to a consent order from the Maryland Cannabis Administration.
According to the consent order, 224 grams of cannabis were thrown into a dumpster outside Curio’s Far & Dotter dispensary, where it sat for 41 hours and nine minutes.
Surveillance footage showed three dispensary employees retrieving four boxes containing the pre-packaged product from the dumpster. More footage showed another employee then repackage the cannabis, removing them from the original boxes, and placing them into plastic bags, before storing them inside a vault.
The employee informed an investigator from the MCA, that the cannabis had to be placed in the plastic bags because the original packages were covered in a liquid substance acquired from the dumpster, according to the order.
In an email, an inventory manager said he advised that the product be destroyed as it violates several compliance requirements, but management “insisted on not losing profit.” Then, the location sold the product between July 28 and August 3, 2023, raking in a total of $3,174.50 in sales.
The manager’s employment at Far & Dotter was “terminated” on or about Aug. 20, 2023, according
Officials celebrated the opening of Matawana Dispensary, the first Black woman-owned legal cannabis dispensary in Brooklyn, on Thursday.
Photo courtesy of Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
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Brooklyn’s first dispensary owned by a Black woman opened in Park Slope on Thursday as honor Mayor Eric Adams pledged to crack down on illegal weed stores in New York City.
Adams joined East New York resident Leeann Mata to celebrate her new shop, Matawana Cannabis Dispensary, at 5th Avenue and 14th Street. Matawana is the sixth legal dispensary to open in Kings County after the state resolved a long legal battle that held up licensing — the borough’s first legal retail marijuana store opened in Gravesend just over two months ago.
“I am encouraged to see the quickening pace of legal retail dispensary openings in the city and thank our colleagues at Cannabis NYC and the Office of Cannabis Management for all that they are doing to support the growth of the local market,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Maria Torres-Springer, in a statement.
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