300 Teamsters, a Town of 1,300: Cannabis's First Grow-House Strike Enters Week Four
Workers at Ascend Wellness's Barry, Illinois cultivation plant walked out June 25 over $18-an-hour wages, $1,000-a-month insurance and a fired bargaining-committee member. The company calls its final offer strong and its facility open — while asking shareholders, mid-strike, to approve its path to a major US exchange.
Nine People Weighed In. Then Wyoming Told the Trump Administration No on Cannabis.
Attorney General Keith Kautz — a 71-year-old retired state supreme court justice — used a 30-day trigger statute, one sparsely attended hearing and a two-page decision to make Wyoming the first state to formally refuse federal rescheduling. South Carolina read the same kind of law and reached the opposite conclusion.
A Box Labeled 'Phone Cases,' 40 Pounds of Pesticide: Feds Charge Employees at a Licensed Oklahoma Grow
An unsealed indictment in Muskogee accuses two workers at a Seminole County medical marijuana farm of smuggling unregistered pesticides from Hong Kong — the EPA and Homeland Security's first reach into Oklahoma's licensed market, landing as the state's grower count collapses 70% and its governor campaigns to shut the program down.
San Francisco Approves Amsterdam-Style Cannabis Cafés by a 7–4 Vote — a Bay Area First
Board President Rafael Mandelman's ordinance lets the city's 66 surviving retailers add food, coffee and live entertainment to legal on-site consumption — over objections from the Lung Association and from operators who begged the city to slow down. Mayor Daniel Lurie's signature is the last step.
Cannabis Finally Got Into US Bankruptcy Court — Through a Canadian Side Door
For a decade, federal judges threw out every bankruptcy filed by a company that touched the plant. On May 9, Judge Brendan Shannon recognized The Cannabist Company's Canadian insolvency without a written opinion — and quietly handed a $220 million wind-down, and the whole industry, a playbook.