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CLACKAMAS, Ore., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — PRESS RELEASE — Today, Wyld, one of the top five cannabis brands in the U.S., expanded its best-selling product offerings into Illinois. Illinois joins Arizona, California, Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington and Canada in offering Wyld products.Wyld offers an expansive array of products made with real fruit flavors, high-quality ingredients and consistent dosing. Constructed using quality control processes and a high manufacturing standard, all Wyld products are designed to provide a premium cannabis experience that consumers can count on. In the state of Illinois, recreational consumers can explore Wyld’s lineup of Sativa-,…

The New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) provided guidance Dec. 9 for adult-use cannabis retail licensees interested in making delivery sales but the rules for securing brick-and-mortar locations have changed. (The delivery guidelines are listed below.)While OCM’s Cannabis Control Board approved the state’s first 36 Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary (CAURD) provisional licenses last month, aspiring market entrants have yet to receive the turnkey locations they were promised for their businesses. OCM regulators plan to issue up to 175 total retail licenses—150 for individuals impacted by prohibition and 25 for nonprofits whose services include support for the formerly incarcerated—and state…

Marijuana reform in 2022 ran the gamut, with three new states legalizing cannabis for adult use and an ideologically diverse mix of other states advancing policy changes that touch on everything from expungements to workplace protections for consumers. A new report published by NORML on Monday puts the year into context, highlighting just how active advocates and lawmakers were as they’ve bucked the status quo of prohibition and sought out new policy that builds on the ever-expanding cannabis reform movement. As of the year’s end, 21 states have now legalized recreational marijuana, and the vast majority of states have some…

NORWOOD, Mass., Dec. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PRESS RELEASE — MariMed, Inc., a multi-state cannabis operator focused on improving lives every day, today announced with deep sadness that Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder Robert Fireman died unexpectedly on Dec. 11, 2022.The company will provide further information on succession once the Board of Directors has had an opportunity to determine the best path forward.”Bob Fireman worked tirelessly and passionately until his last day as Chairman and CEO of MariMed to fulfill our mission of improving people’s lives, much as he did as a philanthropist who cared so deeply about…

“Seven years in the Senate and I’ve never seen laws like this get attacked by people who have an agenda that is clearly obvious.” By Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator A Louisiana Senate panel on Wednesday accused the state medical board of exploiting nuances in state law to obstruct patient access to medical marijuana as part of an agenda that dismisses the drug’s value to medicine. The Senate Health and Welfare Committee called on the attorney for the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners (LSBME) to testify at a State Capitol meeting due to the board’s refusal to allow physicians to recommend medical…

Florida-based multistate cannabis operator Trulieve laid off some of its employees in Gadsden County earlier this month, resulting in a class action lawsuit from affected workers who claim the company did not give adequate notice before dismissing them.Trulieve, which operates in Gadsden County by way of two cultivation sites in Quincy and a processing facility in Midway, has not disclosed the number of employees who were laid off, but said the move was meant to decrease “redundancies” amid the company’s continued growth, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.Steve Vancore, a spokesman for Trulieve, told the news outlet that affected employees were…

The Democratic and Republican leaders of the New Hampshire House of Representatives announced on Monday that they will be  jointly filing a bill to legalize marijuana for the 2023 session—a bipartisan effort that’s backed by key advocacy and industry stakeholder groups. House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R) and Minority Leader Matt Wilhelm (D) are sponsoring the legalization bill, which would allow adults 21 and older to possess and gift up to four ounces of cannabis and grow up to six plants (three of which could be mature) for personal use. Republicans held on to the both the House and Senate…

Medical cannabis legalization could become a reality in Kansas in 2023.Sen. Rob Olson, R-Olathe, who chairs the 2022 Special Committee on Medical Marijuana, said during a committee meeting Dec. 9 that he plans to introduce medical cannabis legislation in the Senate at the start of the 2023 legislative session.The committee has been conducting a series of meetings over the past several months to discuss drafting a medical cannabis legalization bill for 2023 and discuss what they can improve upon from this year’s failed legislation.There were several efforts to legalize medical cannabis in Kansas during this year’s legislative session that failed,…

The Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR) is asking the governor to again put recreational and medical marijuana legalization in his forthcoming executive budget, while the State Public Defender (SDP) is separately seeking decriminalization of cannabis possession, according to an overview of state agency budget requests for 2023. Gov. Tony Evers (D) has already pledged to put legalization in his upcoming budget, despite the GOP-controlled state legislature having repeatedly rejected similar executive requests to create recreational and medical cannabis programs. According to the new proposal, DOR is seeking the authority to issue retail marijuana permits and levy a 15 percent wholesale…

Rhode Island’s new adult-use cannabis market opened for business earlier this month, and so far, business is good.  Local news station WPRI, citing the state’s Department of Business Regulation, reported this week that “Rhode Island’s six marijuana dispensaries — five of which are currently authorized to sell to recreational customers — collectively sold just over $1.63 million worth of marijuana from Dec. 1 to Dec. 7.”  “Less than half of those sales were for recreational marijuana, at about $786,000. The rest, about $845,400, were sales to medical marijuana patients,” the station reported. “For comparison, during the last week of October…