Welcome to this Week in Cannabis News for Friday, May 19, 2023.
Minnesotaβs House and Minnesotaβs Senate have agreed to a bill that will be sent to the Governorβs desk for signature - making Minnesota #23 in the country to legalize adult-use cannabis.
According to Marijuana Moment, after a delay, the cannabis regulatory board members have been named in Rhode Island.
Sales numbers are down to pre-pandemic levels in Colorado - and according to state data, prices are lower than ever.
Quest Diagnostics, the folks that do workplace, post-accident drug testing, announced findings this week that said their cannabis positivity rate in these tests reached a 25 year high.
From the New York Times: *The Increasingly Absurd Illogic of Workplace Drug Tests.
This story that was picked up in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via the AP) tobacco use is down when cannabis is legalized: States that legalized cannabis saw a massive reduction in tobacco use.
Yesterday, Dutchie held a webinar on what is happening in the Missouri cannabis market. Specifically, we were joined by Amendment 2 Consultants who presented on the latest round of licensing for Microbusiness Cannabis Licenses. Here is the full content from the webinar.