New Jersey’s First Black Woman-Owned Dispensary Opens This Week
Thu / Feb 9th
Holistic Solutions — the first Black woman-owned cannabis dispensary in New Jersey — opens this week in Waterford.
Cannabis dispensaries are the primary establishment for cannabis access. They carry flower, edibles, concentrates and even more; all of which can be explained by knowledgable budtenders. Dispensary knowledge is dropped in the articles & news stories that are featured below:
Thu / Feb 9th
Holistic Solutions — the first Black woman-owned cannabis dispensary in New Jersey — opens this week in Waterford.
Thu / Jan 26th
Medical cannabis sales have launched in Mississippi, nearly a year after the reforms were signed into law.
Fri / Jan 20th
New York’s second cannabis dispensary and first shop owned by an entrepreneur who was previously criminalized for a cannabis-related offense is set to open next Tuesday in Manhattan.
Mon / Jan 16th
Texas officials have opened the application process for licensing new dispensaries under the state’s limited medical cannabis program.
Fri / Jan 13th
Connecticut dispensaries sold $359,130 worth of cannabis products on the opening day of the state’s regulated adult-use market.
Wed / Jan 11th
Connecticut has launched its regulated adult-use cannabis market with nine retail dispensaries opening across the state on Tuesday.
Wed / Jan 11th
Illinois cannabis dispensaries sold more than $1.55 billion worth of adult-use cannabis in 2022, a new record for the state.
Thu / Dec 22nd
New York’s first licensed adult-use cannabis shop — operated by Housing Works, a charitable nonprofit in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood — is officially set to open next week.
Mon / Dec 19th
Cannabis shops in New Jersey reported $116,572,533 in third-quarter cannabis sales and more than $177 million if medical sales are included.
Fri / Dec 9th
Rhode Island cannabis dispensaries sold about $1.6 million worth of combined medical and adult-use cannabis during the state’s first week of regulated recreational sales.
Thu / Dec 1st
Adult-use cannabis sales launched today in Rhode Island, which became the 19th state to legalize cannabis earlier this year.
Mon / Nov 28th
Thieves made off with boxes of fake gummies and display packaging during a botched dispensary burglary last week in Portland, Maine.
Fri / Oct 14th
Arkansas’ medical cannabis sales, having already reached $205 million so far this year, are close to outpacing 2021’s sales record of $264.9 million.
Mon / Oct 3rd
Adult-use cannabis sales launched in Vermont over the weekend; at least 70 Vermont municipalities have opted to allow retail cannabis sales.
Wed / Sep 28th
New York received more than 900 applications for its first round of retail adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses, of which there are 150 available.
Wed / Sep 7th
Arkansas medical cannabis sales reached a new record high of $23,700,000 in August amidst legal troubles that look to quash the industry by classifying cannabis businesses as subjects of the RICO Act.
Thu / Sep 1st
Two people were convicted in a cannabis-and-cattle Ponzi scheme last week on charges including conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and five counts of wire fraud; they are facing multiple decades in prison for the $650 million scam.
Wed / Aug 24th INTERVIEW
Arshad Lasi is CEO and co-founder of The Nirvana Group, a vertically integrated Oklahoma cannabis company.
Thu / Aug 18th
Washington D.C. residents aged 21+ who apply for medical cannabis access will now receive a temporary authorization card while their application is being reviewed that will give immediate access to the District’s licensed dispensaries.
Thu / Aug 11th
Members of the Crow Tribe are looking to open the first cannabis dispensary on tribal land in Montana but approval has been delayed by the tribe and Big Horn County.
Thu / Aug 11th
Saint Peter’s University in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit to prohibit the opening of a dispensary and lounge near the college’s dormitories.
Thu / Aug 11th
Arkansas medical cannabis sales reached $23.3 million last month, exceeding June’s total of $22 million.
Thu / Jul 28th
Rapper and actor Ice-T and Playboy Playmate Charis Burrett received approval on Monday from the New Jersey Cannabis Control Board to open a dispensary in Jersey City.
Thu / Jul 28th
Almost two years after South Dakotan voters approved medical cannabis reforms, the first licensed dispensary opened on Wednesday in Hartford.
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