Dispensaries

California cannabis sales declined in 2022 for the first time since the state launched its adult-use marketplace in 2018.

Lawmakers in a Virginia House committee this week tabled a proposal to establish state regulations for an adult-use retail cannabis market, effectively killing the bill for this year’s legislative session.

A recent report found that half of Wisconsin residents aged 21 or older live within a 75-minute drive of a licensed dispensary in a neighboring state.

Massachusetts regulators voted to extend several pandemic-related cannabis policies including medical cannabis telehealth consultations and dispensary curbside pickup services.

Holistic Solutions — the first Black woman-owned cannabis dispensary in New Jersey — opens this week in Waterford.

Medical cannabis sales have launched in Mississippi, nearly a year after the reforms were signed into law.

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.

Texas officials have opened the application process for licensing new dispensaries under the state’s limited medical cannabis program.

Connecticut dispensaries sold $359,130 worth of cannabis products on the opening day of the state’s regulated adult-use market.

Connecticut has launched its regulated adult-use cannabis market with nine retail dispensaries opening across the state on Tuesday.

Illinois cannabis dispensaries sold more than $1.55 billion worth of adult-use cannabis in 2022, a new record for the state.

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.

Cannabis shops in New Jersey reported $116,572,533 in third-quarter cannabis sales and more than $177 million if medical sales are included.

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.

Adult-use cannabis sales launched today in Rhode Island, which became the 19th state to legalize cannabis earlier this year.

Thieves made off with boxes of fake gummies and display packaging during a botched dispensary burglary last week in Portland, Maine.

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.

Adult-use cannabis sales launched in Vermont over the weekend; at least 70 Vermont municipalities have opted to allow retail cannabis sales.

New York received more than 900 applications for its first round of retail adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses, of which there are 150 available. 

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.

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.

Arshad Lasi is CEO and co-founder of The Nirvana Group, a vertically integrated Oklahoma cannabis company.

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.

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.