Medical marijuana company PharmaCann on N.Y. budget

MMP News AuthorFebruary 8, 2024
New York’s adult-use cannabis market has had some major challenges, one of which has been the lack of retail space in which to sell product. In Albany, there is now an opportunity for adult use cannabis retailers to sell weed at a medical marijuana retail dispensary.    PharmaCann has become ... Read More

Issue 2 becomes law making recreational marijuana legal

MMP News AuthorDecember 8, 2023
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Although Ohioans can now smoke marijuana recreationally, that doesn’t mean they can’t get in trouble at all for using it.  What You Need To Know Employers are not required to revise their company drug policy  Ohioans can still get fired if they fail a drug test  It’s ... Read More

Recreational Marijuana legalization sponsor on N.Y. rollout

MMP News AuthorSeptember 14, 2023
It’s been more than two years since the state Legislature passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act which legalized recreational cannabis in New York. However, since then the rollout of the retail market has been stymied by lawsuits, location issues and more. State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, who sponsored ... Read More

OCM director talks marijuana market

MMP News AuthorJuly 28, 2023
Last week, the state’s Cannabis Control Board issued 212 operating licenses for adult use cannabis dispensaries. While New York has issued 463 legal licenses across the state, there are only a handful of brick-and-mortar operations up and running. Gov. Kathy Hochul has vowed to strengthen the emerging legal market by ... Read More