With the passage of the state budget and lawmakers going on recess until fall, the status of laws and policies around Ohio’s legal cannabis programs at mid-year 2025 remains in a state of flux. In at ...

Six Michigan cannabis operators say millions collected under Grand Rapids’ Cannabis Social Equity Program have effectively ...

Marlo Richardson is proof that Los Angeles’s cannabis equity program isn’t void of success stories. She’s one of the few social equity licensees to own and operate a vertically integrated cannabis ...

The Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund was established by Section 14A of Chapter 94G of the General Laws to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants and encourage full participation in the ...

Ohio's social equity and jobs program was designed to promote small, diverse marijuana businesses and right the wrongs of cannabis prohibition. Ohio's Department of Development halted work on the ...

Thanks to The Plain Dealer for calling out lawmakers’ recent efforts to undercut the will of Ohio voters by altering Ohio’s existing marijuana laws (“Don’t take marijuana revenue from cities, towns ...

Damien Cornwell is the President of the Cannabis Association of New York, which is based in Binghamton. There is no doubt that the federal budget agenda casts a shadow over New York’s most vulnerable ...

Connecticut’s Social Equity Council, the body charged with ensuring that revenues from legal cannabis sales benefit marginalized communities, has announced the relaunch of its community reinvestment ...

CHICAGO — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced that applications for Round 3 of the Cannabis Social Equity Loan Program will open ...

Seaside Cannabis was one of 194 applicants to receive Social Equity Trust Fund grants in FY26. The Orleans shop was awarded ...

The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced grants totaling $28.8 million on Monday to support Massachusetts cannabis ...