Licensing

Michigan regulators will begin accepting business license applications starting this Friday, November 1st.

Cannabis regulators in Maryland plan to hire private firms to investigate the state’s licensing review process and to verify information contained in the applications submitted by high-ranking businesses.

The Texas medical cannabis dispensary applications portal was shut down without warning after just one week on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s website.

The first adult-use cultivation licenses have been awarded in Illinois; shops are expected to open their doors to adult-use customers on January 1, 2020.

Maryland’s latest medical cannabis licensing round has been delayed due to an allegedly flawed application process that blocked many applicants from submitting all of the necessary materials on time.

Because of Massachusetts’ host community rules and a general lack of funds, social equity applicants in the state are unable to compete fairly with larger, better-funded cannabis firms, according to Cannabis Control Commission Chairman Steven Hoffman.

Almost half of Ontario, Canada’s 42 cannabis license applicants in the second round of the licensing lottery have been disqualified for breaking rules and for failing to submit all of the required documents.

The city council in Springfield, Massachusetts has launched an investigation into a $200,000 donation made by a cannabis company to determine if the payment could be a bribe.

Jasiel Correia, the mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, was arrested this morning and charged with extorting state-licensed cannabis companies.

More than 2,100 medical cannabis industry applications have been turned in to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

San Francisco is set to issue its first temporary permit for cannabis sales and on-site consumption for Outside Lands, the city’s largest summer festival.

Colorado’s medical cannabis business licenses are slowly decreasing as the adult-use industry steadily ramps up, according to an annual report by the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division.

A Pennsylvania medical cannabis cultivator has had its license revoked following multiple accusations of wrongdoing by state regulators.

Utah officials have announced the winners of eight medical cannabis cultivation licenses; 81 companies had applied for the state’s 10 available licenses.

In Utah, where 81 applicants are vying for just 10 available licenses, officials have delayed announcing the state’s medical cannabis cultivation license winners.

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) is now accepting applications for hemp manufacturing licenses.

More than 500 applications have been filed to sell medical cannabis in Missouri, including 175 hopeful businesses across the St. Louis metro area. At least nine of the applicants represent out-of-state entities looking to enter Missouri’s upcoming market.

Applications are flooding in for Maryland’s 14 new medical cannabis operator licenses; the additional licenses are aimed at increasing the number of minority- and women-owned businesses in the industry.

Missouri officials have decided to award 60 medical cannabis cultivator licenses; additionally, 86 manufacturing licenses and 192 dispensary licenses will be issued.

Utah is set to license 10 medical cannabis cultivators; outdoor cultivators will be allowed to grow up to four acres while indoor grows are limited to 100,000 square feet.

Tennessee’s Department of Agriculture has issued more than 2,600 licenses for industrial hemp cultivation this year. Last year, there were just 226.

Mass Alternative Care in Chicopee, Massachusetts is set to receive Hampden County’s first adult-use cannabis business license; the company will sell medical and adult-use cannabis products out of the same building.

The first Washington state cannabis canopy report shows that a number of Washington licensees have underdeveloped cannabis cultivation operations compared to their canopy allotment from the state.

Maryland cannabis operator Curio Wellness has withdrawn the lawsuit filed late last month against the state’s Medical Cannabis Commission over its plan to issue new cannabis licenses to minority-owned companies.