BY DR LLOYD COVENS Industry Pioneer Harborside Goes Corporate As HBOR The 10-year struggle of Steve DeAngelo (and brother Andrew behind him) to fight asset forfeiture and bad federal tax policy has given way to the California/Oregon operator of 18 licenses (as the largest Calif retailer) joining about 165 other cannabis firms on the Canadian …
Mark your calendar! June 19th is the MITA AZ Monthly Networking and Industry Event! Attend the MITA AZ monthly meeting for special guest speakers and presentations about all of the things that matter most and have an impact on the Medical Marijuana Industry in Arizona, industry education, product highlights and launches, goodies from vendors and …
BY ALLISON STEIN The “Canna-day” that really started more as a “canna-time” has definitely caught on. April 20th AKA “National Weed Day,” “Stoner Christmas,” “Marijuana’s High Holy Holiday,” it’s a day filled with ever-expanding pro-cannabis events from massive festival smoke outs to small house “seshes” with your close circle of friends. It’s the day we …
BY ACM STAFF In a surprise move, the House Democratic Caucus successfully blocked progress on SB1024, a revenue reporting bill sponsored by Lake Havasu Republican, Sen Sonny Borrelli. The bill would require DHS to share dispensary revenue data with the state Dept of Revenue. The bill was created in reaction to a 2018 expose that …
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[wpdevart_countdown text_for_day=”Days” text_for_hour=”Hours” text_for_minut=”Minutes” text_for_second=”Seconds” countdown_end_type=”date” end_date=”31-12-2020 23:59″ start_time=”1553787111″ end_time=”0,1,1″ action_end_time=”hide” content_position=”center” top_ditance=”10″ bottom_distance=”10″ countdown_type=”circle” font_color=”#000000″ button_bg_color=”#81d742″ circle_size=”130″ circle_border=”5″ border_radius=”8″ font_size=”30″ countdown_font_famaly=”monospace” animation_type=”none” ]AZ Legalization Success[/wpdevart_countdown] 4 Take Aways BY MIKEL WEISSER You can finally stop holding your breath, 2020 has “officially begun.” Last Wednesday, ADA president Steve White (Harvest Health & Recreational) set the …
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 …
Three Big Developments in AZ MJ This Week. What You Need to Know BY MIKEL WEISSER Some weeks are just more interesting than others. On TV, they call it “Sweeps Week,” where all the top shows show off their most anticipated episodes. In AZ Marijuana, this week will hold more high-level landscape altering events than …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS Farm Bill Non-Progress Report CBD and hemp companies hoping for post-Farm Bill clarity got a heavy dose of “we will get to it”–from expected long delays in pending review and rule-making at both the Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Agriculture. FDA administrator Scott Gottlieb told a Congressional committee that he will …
BY JARED PAGE, ACM contributor PHOENIX – A bill that establishes sanitary standards and product testing at Arizona medical marijuana dispensaries, and another that prioritizes licensing for dispensaries in rural areas advanced Wednesday at the state Senate. The two medicinal cannabis-related bills (SB1286 & SB1494), along with SCR1021, a concurrent resolution calling for — among …
By: Mikel Weisser If you have been following our updates on cannabis-related bills at the state capitol you will be thrilled to read that HB2149, AZ’s cannabis definitions bill (an approach designed to solve AZ’s concentrates crisis) have landed a hearing with a Republican ally as chair of the House Public Safety Committee. The bill is designed to amend state criminal …
