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DETROIT (FOX 2) – The owner of a Detroit dispensary has been banned from owning a business license for selling weed in the state after he was found to be selling cannabis to people without a medical marijuana card.

Anthony Czuchra and Clark Street Investment Group Inc. dba The Reef was added to the Cannabis Regulatory Agency’s Exclusion list, which means the parties are prohibited from participating in the industry in Michigan. 

A complaint received by the CRA in October 2022 alleged the business had been selling marijuana to unauthorized individuals. Officials followed up on the complaint in November for an unannounced visit and found more than a dozen other violations.

The violations range from not accurately tracking transactions, selling marijuana products not recorded by the state, and consuming food and drinks in the same place where the marijuana products are stored and processed.

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Clark Street joins Candid Labs, Klean Herbal Solutions and Pharmaco on the voluntary exclusion list. 

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Capital Region — Though it has been criticized as slow to start, the recreational marijuana industry in New York is kicking into high gear as the year winds down.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday about 40 Adult-Use Dispensaries will have opened in 2023.

The governor’s press release noted that 12 Black-Owned operations opened their doors this year, bringing the total of black-owned shops to more than 20% in New York, compared to the less than .2% nationally.

The cities of Troy and Amsterdam were among the municipalities to welcome their first adult-use dispensaries.

As New York expands the most equitable cannabis market in the nation, my administration remains committed to building a safe industry for all New Yorkers that will grow our small business community,” Governor Hochul said. “These new dispensaries continue our mission of strengthening our legal market while at the same time helping to push out the bad actors who skirt our laws and undermine all we are trying to accomplish.

Among the 37 dispensaries across the state, eight are majority Black-owned, five are Hispanic-owned and nine are women-owned, “highlighting New York’s commitment to fostering a representative and inclusive cannabis market.”

According to recent industry research, fewer than 20 out of the 10,000

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A Bronx adult-use cannabis dispensary opened on Thursday, joining hundreds of store openings across the state.

The New York State Office of Cannabis Management said that several New York City adult-use dispensaries, including Cannabis Emporium in the Bronx, will officially open this week after a lawsuit barred cannabis retailers from obtaining licenses for four months. It’s on Williamsbridge Road in the Bronx.

The sites opening in Manhattan are Dagmar on West Broadway in Soho and Grow Together on Coney Island Ave. in Brooklyn.

Four disabled veterans sued the state in August, claiming that state cannabis industry regulators “unjustly awarded dispensary licenses” to businesses impacted by prior marijuana convictions. The lawsuit was settled on Nov. 29, awarding over 430 cannabis dispensaries across the Lower Hudson Valley their licenses.

Cannabis Emporium is the second officially licensed cannabis dispensary to open in the Bronx.

A Bronx adult-use cannabis dispensary opened on Thursday, joining hundreds of store openings across the state.

The New York State Office of Cannabis Management said that several New York City adult-use dispensaries, including Cannabis Emporium in the Bronx, will officially open this week after a lawsuit barred cannabis retailers from obtaining licenses for four months. It’s on Williamsbridge Road in the Bronx.

The sites opening in Manhattan are Dagmar on West Broadway in Soho and Grow Together on Coney Island Ave. in Brooklyn.

Elevate Cannabis Dispensary in Mount Vernon, Westchester’s first cannabis dispensary is schedule to open soon. Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

Four disabled veterans sued the state in August, claiming that state cannabis industry regulators “unjustly awarded dispensary licenses” to businesses impacted by prior marijuana convictions. The lawsuit was settled on Nov. 29, awarding over 430 cannabis dispensaries across the Lower Hudson Valley their licenses.

Cannabis Emporium is the second officially licensed cannabis dispensary to open in the Bronx.

In nearby Mount Vernon, the first official adult-use cannabis dispensary, Elevate Cannabis, opened on Dec. 5 after months of delays. It was the first of several locations to open in the Lower Hudson Valley. Elevate is on South Terrace Ave.

This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: NY marijuana:

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OWOSSO, Mich. (WLNS) — In 2008 following the legalization of medical marijuana, Michigan saw an explosion in dispensaries appearing in empty storefronts across the state.

Local governments worked to regulate the market, while a complicated licensure process played out at the state level.  

In 2018, voters approved recreational marijuana sales in the state and the market exploded. The pot industry has since boomed, according to state regulators, with $1.7 billion in weed sales in the first seven months of 2023. In July, the Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency reported more than $270 million in sales in just that month.  

But not every marijuana business is booming: dispensary Discount Buds in Corunna near Lansing recently shut down. 

“As it’s growing, the competition is becoming more,” said Raymond Abro, chief operation officer of Jars Cannabis.  

Abro has a location in Owosso, less than five minutes from where Discount Buds was operating. Abro’s is one of five dispensaries within a square mile. Small towns like Corunna and Owosso have become the battleground for survival for retail marijuana spots, Abro said.  

“It’s sad to see that somebody had a dream of coming into the cannabis space, mom and

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Lower Burrell has new rules about where medical marijuana dispensaries, growers and processors can operate in the city.

Council this week approved the regulations, which allow medical marijuana growers and processors to be located in light manufacturing- and manufacturing-zoned districts as a special exception use.

The dispensaries cannot be within 500 feet of the property line of a school, day care center, church, place of worship, playground or park.

It defines medical marijuana dispensaries as businesses that sell medical marijuana under a state-issued permit and a medical marijuana grower/processor as a place that holds a state health permit to grow or process medical marijuana. All growing and processing would be done inside the building.

The Legislature legalized the use of medical marijuana in 2016, with the first dispensaries and availability of product in 2018. Medical marijuana patients must qualify under one of more than 20 diagnosed conditions and be issued a medical marijuana card by a physician certified under the state’s medical marijuana program.

A bill introduced in Harrisburg this year would eliminate the list of qualifying conditions and allow marijuana to be prescribed by any doctor licensed to prescribe controlled substances in the state. The bill has

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Maplewood, NJ (KYW Newsradio) — New Jersey voters approved the use of recreational marijuana for adults back in 2020. Now, three years later, independently made edibles are hitting shelves in the Garden State for the first time.

ButACake owner Matha Figaro started selling regular butter cakes at a farmers market in 2015. About a year later, a customer sparked an idea, asking if she could infuse cannabis in them for medical purposes.

“The original ask was from a woman that was getting ready to go through chemo,” Figaro said. “She was like, ‘I love your cake, but at this point, I need medicine more. And instead of doing the two, can you combine it for me?’

“I never stopped after that. I realized how much I can help.”

Figaro applied for a manufacturing license soon after adult use became legal in New Jersey. The process took 444 days and, during that time, she had to stop selling ButACake products.

“My lawyers advised me that anything I was doing in my past in the unregulated market had

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Early this morning, Los Angeles firefighters battled a blaze at a downtown legal cannabis dispensary, successfully extinguishing the fire without reports of injuries. According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the incident occurred at a single-story structure located at 645 S Imperial St. The first responders arrived on the scene and managed to contain and put out the contents fire within 31 minutes.

The LAFD team consisted of 40 firefighters who had to gain access to a highly secured and compartmentalized building to battle the flames. The fire was reported fully extinguished by 2:09 AM.

The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. The Los Angeles Fire Department’s alert indicated: “No injury. Fire cause under investigation.” The dispensary, measuring 100 feet by 100 feet, was described as a “legal cannabis dispensary,” though it has not been specified whether the nature of the business had any role in the fire’s origin or progression.

Officials have not yet released any details regarding the possible source of the fire or the extent of the damage. Fire Station 17, along with several other units, including battalion chiefs and specialized teams, were acknowledged for their role in the incident.

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Three marijuana dispensaries are poised to open in New York City over the next few days, after a state judge lifted a court order that temporarily barred new retailers from selling cannabis products.

Cannabis Emporium will open on Thursday as the second dispensary in the Bronx, the state’s ​​Office of Cannabis Management announced in a release. The retailer will begin sales on the first floor of 2460 Williamsbridge Road after an 11 a.m. press conference on Thursday.

A second retailer, Dagmar Cannabis, is expected to open for business as SoHo’s first dispensary after a similar event at 11 a.m. on Friday. Grow Together, a dispensary in Brooklyn, plans to open its doors Monday.

The anticipated openings follow a monthslong saga that mired New York state’s legal marijuana rollout in uncertainty. Dozens of retailers statewide were barred from opening after a court sided in August with a group of veterans who had sued over a critical part of New York’s criteria for doling out the first licenses, which gave preference to applicants with marijuana convictions prior to legalization in 2021 and their close relatives.

The state’s Cannabis Control Board approved a settlement last month in the veterans’ lawsuit and a second case that did not

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A fire at a legal cannabis dispensary near downtown Los Angeles was quickly extinguished Thursday.

Fire crews responded at 1:38 a.m. to 645 S. Imperial St. between Mateo Street and Santa Fe Avenue where they found the fire deep inside the 100-by- 100-foot dispensary, said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.

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It took 40 firefighters 31 minutes to knock down the flames.

No injuries were reported.

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