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The Landing Dispensaries support at-risk members of Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Monroe and Huron communities this Thanksgiving season through turkey donations

CLEVELAND, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Landing Dispensaries are celebrating Ohioans’ overwhelming support for the passing of the citizen-led adult-use cannabis ballot initiative Issue 2 by partnering with the Cleveland Food Bank, Mid-Ohio Food Collective, Freestore Food Bank and Second Harvest Food Bank to feed 10,000 through turkey donations this Thanksgiving season.

“Community leadership and service are key pillars of the company ethos at Firelands Scientific and The Landing Dispensaries,” said Rob McCourt, Firelands Scientific Vice President of Commercial. “Our teams came together to find an impactful way to contribute to communities where we have a retail presence, so we partnered with Atlantic Food Distributors and key food banks across Ohio for a large quantity turkey donation to feed at-risk Ohioans this Thanksgiving.”

The recent opening of The Landing Dispensary’s Cincinnati location marks Firelands Scientific’s fifth Ohio dispensary and brings its full dispensary roster to 10 stores, serving patients across five The Landing West Virginia locations as well as its five stores located in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Monroe, and Huron.

“We stand ready to work with Governor DeWine and

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Regional police executed a search warrant at a magic mushroom dispensary in Cambridge on Tuesday. Police arrested a 20-year-old Kitchener man.

Police say psilocybin is classified as a schedule three drug and selling it is a criminal offence

CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2023 8:45 AM EST | Last Updated: 23 minutes ago

Regional police arrested a 20-year-old Kitchener man after executing a search warrant at a business in Cambridge operating as an illegal mushroom dispensary. (Jackie Sharkey/CBC)

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (WMC) – An owner of a medical marijuana dispensary filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi Law.

Clarence Cocroft, the owner of Tru Source Medical Cannabis, teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file the lawsuit on Tuesday.

The lawsuit aims to defend the First Amendment right of all Mississippians to advertise their legal businesses.

Coroft bought a few billboards in highly trafficked areas in northern Mississippi.

Because of the state’s ban, Coroft was forced to lease those billboards to other businesses that can legally advertise on them, including local casinos.

“Preventing someone from advertising his or her legal business violates the First Amendment,” said IJ Senior Attorney Ari Bargil. “The government simply has no interest in prohibiting a business from providing truthful information about its products to would-be customers.”

In 2022, Mississippi’s law legalized adult medical marijuana which was approved in 2020.

This allowed Clarence to open Tru Source, the state’s first Black-owned dispensary, earlier this year.

“Some people don’t know Mississippi has medical marijuana, and even if they do know about it, they might not know that Tru Source exists right here in Olive Branch. I want to help patients find the products they need for whatever illness they have, but

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OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (WMC) – An owner of a medical marijuana dispensary filed a federal lawsuit challenging Mississippi Law.

Clarence Cocroft, the owner of Tru Source Medical Cannabis, teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file the lawsuit on Tuesday.

The lawsuit aims to defend the First Amendment right of all Mississippians to advertise their legal businesses.

Coroft bought a few billboards in highly trafficked areas in northern Mississippi.

Because of the state’s ban, Coroft was forced to lease those billboards to other businesses that can legally advertise on them, including local casinos.

“Preventing someone from advertising his or her legal business violates the First Amendment,” said IJ Senior Attorney Ari Bargil. “The government simply has no interest in prohibiting a business from providing truthful information about its products to would-be customers.”

In 2022, Mississippi’s law legalized adult medical marijuana which was approved in 2020.

This allowed Clarence to open Tru Source, the state’s first Black-owned dispensary, earlier this year.

“Some people don’t know Mississippi has medical marijuana, and even if they do know about it, they might not know that Tru Source exists right here in Olive Branch. I want to help patients find the products they need for whatever illness they have, but

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Join NY Cannabis Insider for our next full-day conference on Nov. 16 at the Sonesta White Plains.

It’s no secret that New York State’s nascent cannabis industry is under fire from large out-of-state corporations champing at the bit to enter what’s expected to become one of the nation’s largest legal marijuana markets.

However, a NY Cannabis Insider investigation has found these same companies are breaking state regulations to secure market share while also boxing out the Empire State’s small farmers and brands through flush deals, or by offering large amounts of money in a market currently starved for cash.

Additionally, our investigation has found that the Office of Cannabis Management, the agency responsible for regulating the market, is aware of the problem – but has decided not to enforce against these companies out of fear of disrupting the supply chain, according to a leaked audio recording of a top OCM official.

“No one should be above the rules,” said John Vavalo, president of the Association of New York Cannabis Processors. “And the only people who are not playing by the rules are, frankly, winning.”

Vavalo’s opinion isn’t unique.

For months, New York’s small farmers and brands have complained of the state’s nonexistent enforcement of cut-throat business

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Cannabis dispensary coming to Murray

November 15, 2023 • Community News

Catching up: Community Board 1 approved (well, it was a no/unless vote, meaning as long as applicant follows the stipulations, it’s a yes) its first state-licensed cannabis dispensary for Murray, though there are a lot more coming down the pike.

Rezidue (ugh), owned by Nubia Ashley, will have 2800 square feet on three levels with an occupancy of 69; her hope in October (I am catching up) was to be open by the end of the year. As of now, the state is not issuing licenses for consumption, but the applicant said she will seek that eventually. (CB1’s Licensing Committee was rightly concerned about ventilation.) (The Office of Cannabis Management is not currently accepting applications for on-site consumption licenses — only for cultivators, processors and dispensaries. You can read more about the on-site consumption regulations here.)

I expected a lot more community opposition, but from what I could tell there was just one resident at the meeting. And she, a resident of 14 Murray next door, said she didn’t care if it was legal or illegal, she didn’t want to hear “one single thing” or endure loitering,

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New York’s marijuana regulators have reached an agreement with a collective of disabled veterans who filed a lawsuit over the state’s licensing process.

While the settlement is still pending finalization, its completion is expected to lead to the lifting of a temporary injunction that has been in effect since August, as reported by New York Daily News.

The August-imposed injunction, enacted by the New York State Supreme Court, has halted the opening of over 400 conditional adult-use retail dispensary (CAURD) license holders statewide for several months.

New York’s marijuana regulators launched the CAURD program to give individuals who suffered from the war on drugs before legalization and ran successful businesses for a minimum of two years an opportunity to enter the legal industry. The aim is to establish a marijuana industry with a strong focus on social equity.

However, the lawsuit contended that the state’s regulations went beyond their authority, violating cannabis law by giving preference in the retail license application process to individuals with marijuana-related offenses and their families rather than opening it to the broader public as outlined by the law. Additionally, the lawsuit claimed that the award system contravened the state

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The application process for Maryland’s next round of cannabis business licenses, set aside for social equity candidates, opened Monday after over 1,000 people were granted the status.

As part of the Cannabis Reform Act of 2023, the state established several distinct licensing rounds.

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Existing Maryland medical cannabis sellers were allowed first to convert their existing licenses to also sell recreational cannabis when the prohibition ended July 1.

The application period for the next round, which is open only to those qualified as social equity applicants, closes Dec. 12. Those who apply will be granted licenses based on a lottery system that will begin by Jan. 1.

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The 179 licenses allotted for this round of applications include 75 standard dispensary and 16 standard grower licenses. Each locality will get a set number of licenses. Baltimore City is allotted the most dispensary licenses, with 11.

“This application round will more than double the number of cannabis businesses in the State, and each award will be to a verified social equity applicant,” said Will Tilburg, the Maryland Cannabis Administration’s acting director, said in a news release.

Maryland is the first state to have a distinct period set aside for social equity applicants to obtain licenses, said David Torres,

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A district court judge last week granted a 60-day preliminary injunction blocking the State of Montana from assessing and collecting increased fees from businesses that operate multiple marijuana dispensaries across the state – changes passed by the legislature this year in the final days of the session.

The state and attorneys for three Montana marijuana businesses last Tuesday agreed to ask Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Mike Menahan to issue the 60-day preliminary injunction because the renewal fees are coming due, and the businesses say they would be forced to close several locations, lay off workers and keep medical marijuana patients from getting their products in the event the have to pay the fees. He granted the request on Wednesday.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs – Granite Peak Holdings, Inc. doing business as Elevated; TSB Montana LLC, and MariMint LLC – challenged the new fee structure passed through an amended version of House Bill 903 in the final two weeks of the 2023 legislative session, in a lawsuit initially filed in August.

For several months, attorneys for the plaintiffs and Department of Justice have argued about whether the new fee structure was illegally implemented by the Legislature and if another law

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CATSKILL — A public hearing held by the Village planning board at the Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center drew more than a dozen residents Monday to discuss the siting of a proposed cannabis dispensary and cafe.

The proposed dispensary would be located at 79-81 Maple Ave. (Route 9W) in Catskill.

Kevin Conklin, chief architect at Conklin Architecture, said at the hearing that the house located at the front of the property would be converted into the cafe, and the garage at the rear of the property will be converted into the dispensary. The log cabin will be removed.

The rear of the property, off Cowles Street and Edgemere Hill Road, will be used for deliveries and staff parking. There will be a total of 20 parking spots on site for the dispensary and cafe.

According to Conklin, the property will be under 24-hour surveillance, and the feed from security cameras on the property will be tied directly into the Village of Catskill Police Department.

He said the house along Maple Avenue, which will contain the cafe, will be receiving a new ramp for accessibility, and a “facelift” on the outside.

He added that the dispensary and cafe will only be sharing the property. There will

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