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Cresco Paid $46.9 Million for Nine Pennsylvania Stores. Then Pennsylvania Flipped Its Senate
Cresco announced the PharmaCann deal as $50 million; its Nov. 6 filing books $25.3 million of the final price as permits. On the same day's call, Charlie Bachtell said adult-use odds are meaningfully better, and an analyst asked whether the real holdup was ever Republicans.
Voters Fired the Judges in Texas's Hemp Case. The Dec. 8 Hearing Went With Them
Two days after Democrats swept the 15th Court of Appeals, its clerk cancelled the THCA argument and handed the case to three justices who take office in January. Lt. Gov.-elect Vikki Goodwin says DSHS lacked the authority to write the rules at all.
A $120 Delivery Got Her Fired. A Labor Judge Says the Union Was the Real Reason
An NLRB judge ruled Nov. 2 that Utah's The Flower Shop illegally fired three pharmacy workers after a 2024 organizing drive and ordered them reinstated. The company is still arguing in federal court that labor law does not reach an intrastate cannabis business.
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Verano Credits Ohio's Hemp Ban for a 25% Jump. The Same Law Made Michigan Weed a Crime
State data show Ohio dispensaries rang up 5.42 million transactions in the third quarter, up from 4.43 million in the first, while flower prices barely moved. Senate Bill 56 did two things on March 20, and hemp brewers say they are the ones paying for it.
Georgia Wrote the Mail Carrier Into Its Cannabis Rules. Two Senators Want the Carrier Out
Rule 351-6-.11, in force since Oct. 26, lets Georgia dispensaries ship to patients by certified mail. Postal rules tie controlled-substance mail to DEA registration, and Georgia's 60 timely dispensary applicants were not among the 900-plus the agency registered Oct. 30.
DEA Moves to Deny a Minneapolis Dispensary Over Minnesota's Law, Not Anything It Did
An order signed by DEA diversion chief Cheri Oz says a license covering both medical and adult-use sales cannot qualify. The agency's own list shows 30 Minnesota applicants, 209 in Missouri and 160 in Ohio waiting; none were among the 900-plus dispensaries registered Oct. 30.
Hochul Ends New York's Cannabis Labor-Peace Mandate the Day the Judge Weighing It Dies
Chapter 369 repeals the 2021 union-neutrality requirement at once, but a deal with legislative leaders strips the AFL-CIO-seated wage board meant to replace it. A Brooklyn retailer's fully briefed federal challenge now waits for a new judge, and organized labor gets neither the mandate nor its replacement.
Alabama's Law Allows 37 Cannabis Storefronts. Five Years On, Litigation Has Most of Them Stuck
Callie's Apothecary and Bama Bloom are adding stores in Bessemer and Birmingham, but every integrated license remains tied up in court. Washington has now named Alabama among seven states with DEA-registered dispensaries, putting a Nov. 29 federal supply-chain test on a market still learning to stock its shelves.
After 900 DEA Registrations, a Nov. 29 Deadline to Cut Off Unregistered Cannabis Suppliers
A four-page DEA notice says registrants and timely applicants who keep buying from businesses that missed the June 26 window risk denial or revocation. The agency's own list counts 6,983 timely entries, 2,442 of them in Oklahoma.
Missouri Says Its Cannabis Market Captures 93% of Spending. The Study Couldn't Tell Who Owns It.
Cannabis Public Policy Consulting found the regulated market has displaced almost all illicit spending, then said plainly that it lacked usable ownership data. Three weeks earlier, a judge refused to dismiss a suit alleging one company controls a quarter of the state's dispensaries.