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First recreational-only cannabis retailers open in New Jersey

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May 19, 2023

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New Jersey’s cannabis regulator says the state’s first two recreational-only cannabis retail stores are now open after being granted licenses.

“The state’s 28 other dispensaries selling recreational cannabis expanded into adult-use after starting as medicinal cannabis businesses,” the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) said Friday in a news release.

The two new adult-use cannabis retailers are Earth & Ivy, in New Brunswick, and Nova Farms, in Woodbury.

The Woodbury store is located in an “impact zone,” designated by the New Jersey government as a municipality “disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs for particular consideration in New Jersey’s burgeoning cannabis market.”

“Over the last two years we have grown the number of (medical marijuana dispensaries) open to patients and overseen several of them through to expansion into recreational cannabis,” CRC executive director Jeff Brown said in a statement.

“Now retailers are opening exclusively to

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Texas medical marijuana expansion fails in state Senate

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May 26, 2023

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An effort to expand Texas’ medical marijuana program beyond low-THC CBD oil failed in the state Legislature.

And a move to reduce criminal penalties for marijuana possession also was unsuccessful, Austin TV station KXAN reported.

House lawmakers approved both bills, but the measures then stalled in Senate committees.

House Bill 1805 would have increased the amount of THC allowed in products manufactured and sold in the state’s MMJ program from 1% by dry weight to 10 milligrams of THC by “dosage unit.”

HB 128 would have reduced possession of up to 1 ounce to a citable misdemeanor punishable by no more than a fine of $500.

May 24 was the last day this session for bills passed in one chamber to also be approved in the other.

Despite living under some of the most draconian drug laws in the United

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Q1 cannabis sales in California fall to $1.25M, lowest level since pandemic

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May 26, 2023

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First-quarter cannabis sales in California slid to $1,249,584,223, the lowest quarterly total since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest statistics from the state’s Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

Sales were down 5.9% from the same quarter a year ago and the lowest since the second quarter of 2020, when sales were $1,153,285,028.

The first-quarter statistics put California’s marijuana operators on track to generate just less than $5 billion in sales this year, or 7.1% less than 2022, when taxable sales of recreational and medical marijuana eclipsed $5.3 billion.

If projections hold true, cannabis sales would fall for the second consecutive year in the world’s largest regulated market.

It’s the first time that has happened since regulations for adult-use retail sales were established in 2018.

Sales last year decreased 8.6% from roughly $5.8 billion in 2021, according to state data.

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Minnesota aims to issue adult-use marijuana retail licenses in 1 year

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May 26, 2023

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Minnesota regulators will start issuing adult-use marijuana retail licenses one year from now if they’re able to stick to their planned timeline.

A request for vendors posted by the state noted that license applications are scheduled to begin in May 2024 and sales would start in January 2025, MPR News reported.

Gov. Tim Walz still must sign the recently passed adult-use cannabis legalization bill into law, but he has indicated he plans to.

The law, which legislators narrowly passed in April, also allows adults 21 and older to grow their own cannabis.

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