A late session maneuver at the state Capitol sent activists and business leaders ballistic, when Sen David Gowan filed a “striker bill” designed to target listing and menu service websites that help market AZ MMJ products. “Strikers” or “strike everything bills” remove or strike out all the language of an existing bill, especially ones that …
BY GARY MICHAEL SMITH, ESQ. Hemp is returning to America’s farms after decades of prohibition, and CBD (THC’s less fun non-psychoactive cousin) is all the rage. These new hemp and CBD industries seek clarity out of the schizophrenic alphabet soup of federal agencies and regulations. Small wonder there is confusion, because through the end of …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS, publisher of West420 News Weekly As millions and millions of dollars in merger-and-acquisition deals continue, the serious US-based makers of CBD products are poised to flood the market, building brands, and beginning to produce new innovative delivery and formulation strategies. Over 1000 CBD firms may be active with such a low …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS Banking Reform Gets Historic Win Tue., March 25 was a red-letter day for cannabis reform in Congress. For the first time ever, a cannabis reform bill passed out of committee in the House Financial Services Committee. A solution for the dreaded IRS 280E cannabis problem may be gaining ground at last. …
BY ACM STAFF Friday morning March 29, on the last possible day it could be heard in committee, Sen. David Gowan’s SB1494 decidedly passed out of the House Health and Human Services Committee, 8-0. A string of expert witnesses provided testimony on the importance of creating state-mandated testing for medical marijuana products sold in the …
BY: GARY MICHAEL SMITH, ESQ. AND J. PHILLIP GLASSCOCK, ESQ. (AND CPA, RETIRED) Arizona has a new limited liability company act that will have two effective dates, the earliest of which is September 1, 2019. These new laws will impact all existing and future LLCs, especially those that do not have operating agreements. Every dispensary …
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BY JENNY CORSO, CHIEF SCIENTIST, DARWIN BRANDS “If exercise could be packed into a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.” – Dr. Robert Butler, Founder, National Institutes on Aging If asked, I wonder what Dr. Butler would say about cannabidiol (CBD), or the combined use of …
BY ACM STAFF There’s reason the vaping public selected Select as one of the biggest brands in America: they’re good. The company’s won multiple awards, including Dope Industry Awards’ Best Concentrate Company, according to Leafly. Though Select’s wide variety of CBD products are available nationwide, here in Arizona, thx to their connection to the gargantuan …
BY JENNIFER MILES, FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF CANNAKULA The cannabis industry is a constantly shifting mix of exhilaration and uncertainty about the future. Many industry professionals are swept up in the flow of this transformation…but growth is never easy or stress free. Maintaining a high stress level has a high price tag. Work stress, family …
BY ALLISON STEIN “Diamonds”, “Crystals” and “Gems.” No, it’s not a new jewelry store, it’s the newest cannabis craze. Pioneering in AZ in 2017, Tru-Med, Phoenix Cannabis Co., and MPX were among the first laboratories to manufacture the super concentrate. Today it seems everyone has jumped on a ‘diamonds brand wagon’. Bloom dispensary hit the …
