Licensing

Florida lawmakers approved a bill requiring the state Department of Health to issue cannabis cultivation licenses to Black farmers who qualified for the licenses but were left out of the permitting process.

Oregon regulators have granted the state’s first psychedelic medicine treatment center license to Epic Healing Eugene, which plans to start serving patients later this month.

Colorado-based Terrapin said it has canceled its plan to build a production facility in Auburn, New York due to ongoing delays in the state’s licensing process.

Georgia officials issued licenses this week for the state’s first five medical cannabis dispensaries.

New Jersey cannabis regulators on Tuesday reversed their decision to deny the renewal of Curaleaf’s adult-use cannabis license.

Curaleaf chairman Boris Jordan said the company will use “any legal means necessary” to “ensure renewal” of its New Jersey adult-use license; the license is set to expire this Friday after regulators declined its renewal.

New Jersey regulators this week declined to renew Curaleaf’s adult-use cannabis license, citing the recent closure of one of its cultivation facilities (and subsequent layoffs), as well as the company’s clash with unionization and an alleged lack of transparency.

Maryland lawmakers have advanced a measure to see state officials begin issuing adult-use cannabis licenses this summer.

Cannabis “gifting” businesses in Washington D.C. may now apply to become medical cannabis dispensaries under a law that took effect last week.

A New York Appeals Court judge this week narrowed the injunction blocking the licensing of cannabis dispensaries. The move will let the licensing process move forward except in the state’s Finger Lakes region.

A recent proposal in Washington state would create about 100 new retail adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses reserved for social equity applicants.

New York is being sued by several of its medical cannabis operators over the state’s plan to give the first adult-use retail cannabis licenses to social equity applicants.

New York’s slower-than-expected adult-use cannabis roll-out could cost the state $2.6 billion in related tax revenues over the next eight years, according to a new report.

Mexico’s Health Regulatory Agency this week awarded the nation’s first commercial cannabis cultivation license.

The Georgia House passed a measure this week to increase the number of medical cannabis production licenses in the state.

Lawmakers in the Connecticut Legislature’s General Law Committee have advanced a measure to let hemp growers apply for cannabis cultivator or micro-cultivator licenses.

Canadian cannabis company Adastra Holdings Ltd. said it received Health Canada approval to add psilocybin, psilocin, and cocaine to its substance dealer’s license.

New York officials announced they are doubling the number of cannabis dispensary licenses in the state from 150 to 300.

Cannabis regulators in Michigan have suspended the medical and adult-use cannabis business licenses of TAS Asset Holdings after discovering the company was adding unregulated cannabis to its products.

Dr. Greenthumb’s Worldwide — the cannabis company founded by B Real of the hip-hop group Cypress Hill — and its Los Angeles-based dispensary partner LAHC Inc. have mutually decided to part ways.

California cannabis regulators have launched a $20 million grant program aimed at expanding consumer access to licensed cannabis products.

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office is taking over the prosecution of an attorney accused of helping nearly 400 illegal cannabis cultivation businesses via a so-called “ghost owner” scheme.

Illinois regulators announced a new study investigating disparity in the state’s adult-use cannabis licenses.

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.