Heady Vermont’s Weekly State By State Roundup

As always they do the best state to state weekly roundup

This is what they dug up from the last 7 days

 

New England

 Connecticut

• Conditions that qualify for MMJ
• Expect More Lawsuits Like This Case About Woman’s Firing Over MMJ

 Maine

• Cannabis Coalition Sues State Over Decision to Scrap Residency Rule
• So. Portland approves licenses for 5 pot businesses

 Massachusetts

• Boston’s First cannabisShop Loses $100,000 In Cannabis During Looting
• Co-Owner First Black-Owned Pot Shop Calls Robbery A ‘Targeted’ Crime
• Judge rules for pot shop in permit dispute with city
• No one under 21 allowed in cars during curbside pickup

 New Jersey

• Against The MMJ Dispensary
• Zen Leaf alternative treatment center opens in Elizabeth

 New York

• Sen. pushing criminal justice reform bills—including legalization

States 

 Alaska

• A Snapshot Of America’s MMJ Markets: Alaska

 Arizona

• Company Is Hiring in “Multiple Areas”
• 2/3 Voters Support Legalization Ballot Measure

 Arkansas

• Get new name, judge tells pot dispensary

 California

• Bay Area Cannabis Dispensaries Looted During Protests
• Regs are seeking funding to hire 87 officers to enforce cannabis rules.
• Industry faces year of decline because of coronavirus
• Gov. cited legalization as one measure to address systemic racism
• Regulators removed cannabiz info from website b/c of looting

 Colorado

• How to Create an Equitable Cannabis Hospitality Industry
• Hemp Growers Look to the Cannabis Market for Relief

 Florida

• 30 people robbed Palm Beach dispensaries after protester march
• MMJ Market Flourishes Amid the Pandemic

 Hawaii

• Health Dept. whistleblower’s concerns over regulation of MMJ vape carts

 Illinois

• New Illinois cannabis law presents challenges for medical patients
• Chicago cannabis dispensaries close indefinitely

 Iowa

• Lawmakers send bill to set a per-person MMJ THC limit 

 Kentucky

• 150 farmers holding last year’s hemp crop after a disastrous season
• Quarles calls on FDA to act on hemp
• Licenses 960 hemp growers 150 processor, handlers for 2020
• Significant Drop in Hemp Farmers for 2020

 Louisiana

• Lawmakers Send MMJ Expansion And Cannabis Banking Bills To Gov
• Legislator pushing MMJ bill: “I’m not the poster boy for marijuana”
• Lawmakers sent Gov a bill to regulate hemp and CBD.

 Michigan 

• Bob Moore Offers Financing For Hemp, Cannabis, General Businesses
• Owner of cannabis dispensaries offers grants
• Regulators outlining some requirements for MMJ businesses

 Missouri

• Draft rules call for MMJ stores to warn against vaping

 Montana

• MMJ Patients ‘Untethered’ from Dispensaries Following Rule Change

 New Mexico

• Legalization Might Bring Economic Relief
• 5 anti-legalization senators lost to progressive challengers

 New Mexico – Navajo Nation

• Navajo police warn against illegal cannabis farms

 North Carolina

• Hemp sections gutted from farm bill to ensure House passage
• Reps approve bill w/smokable hemp ban language removed.

 Ohio

• 191 farmers get permission to plant hemp plants

 Oklahoma

• MMJ sales continue to smash records

 Oregon

• Regs approved cannabis violation stipulated settlement agreements.

 South Carolina

• Council member would consider supporting cannabis decrim proposal

 Virgin Islands

• Gov. calls for lawmakers to pass cannabis legalization legislation
• Gov. touted cannabis legalization’s economic impact 
• Gov’s projections on economic impact of legalization contained errors

 Virginia

• Mayor starting a commission on racial disparities. criminal justice reform
• Gov Says Decrim Partly Addresses Racial Inequity

 Washington

• Regs posted an overview of coronavirus-related policies for cannabiz
• New licensing and enforcement systems modernization project