The City Attorney says it's an unintended consequence of the state legalizing hemp last week.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus City Attorney's Office will no longer prosecute misdemeanor marijuana cases and is dropping any pending cases.
The City Attorney says it's an unintended consequence of the state legalizing hemp last week.
But 10TV found the hemp law is complicating pot prosecution across the state.
Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney on Friday announced the petition filed with his office has met all requirements, and petitioners are cleared to begin collecting signatures.
BOISE – Medical marijuana advocates have until April 30, 2020, to collect signatures from 55,057 registered Idaho voters to get an initiative on the general election ballot next year.
Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney on Friday announced the petition filed with his office has met all requirements, and petitioners are cleared to begin collecting signatures.
Idaho Cannabis Coalition, which filed the petition, must collect the signatures from at least 18 of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts and include signatures from at least 6% of registered voters from each district to qualify the proposal for the ballot.
The state has the final say on whether to limit medical cannabis cultivation to 1,750 mature plants per producer.
SANTA FE – A hearing officer has endorsed key provisions of a plan designed to shore up cannabis supplies to New Mexico’s medical marijuana program without flooding the expanding market, according to recommendations released on Friday.
State Health Department Secretary Kathyleen Kunkel now has the final say on whether to limit medical cannabis cultivation to 1,750 mature plants per producer. In recommendations released Friday, that production cap was endorsed by an official assigned to monitor public hearings in July.
To file the appeal companies had to post a $20,000 bond, which is lost if the complaint is dismissed.
SALT LAKE CITY — Three companies are continuing to protest Utah's decision to award a smaller number of medical marijuana grower licenses.
The state's Division of Purchasing said Thursday that companies Pure UT, Total Health Sciences and JLPR are appealing the agency's decision to reject their complaints to the state Procurement Policy Board.
To file the appeal companies had to post a $20,000 bond, which is lost if the complaint is dismissed.
In this installment, CBT presents an up-close look at the tools and habits behind the Nevada-based cultivator’s job.
Indoor, outdoor, greenhouse or a combination: Hybrid greenhouse
As a career investor in real estate and technology, cannabis clearly has elements of both of those worlds. Uprooting my life living in Europe to create a large-scale hybrid greenhouse in Nevada was a [sign of] dedication to the craft. Nevada was chosen because I felt they had the clearest rules and regulatory framework to be pro-cannabis and pro-business. And with a limited/closed licensing environment, plus being on the West Coast, there would be a greater investment benefit and talent pool to attract from in competitive states with older markets. And when Solaris was designed, there were no desert grows or hybrid greenhouses at all. I wanted to take advantage of the lower contamination desert environment and prove that indoor quality cannabis required a different tool.
We can’t function without the data gathered by multiple sensors inside the greenhouse. This data goes to a cloud-based system that provides real time environmental tracking inside and outside the facilities.
I would have to say a toolbox because there’s always something that needs attention.
We’ve been phenotyping to raise the most powerful genetics. We are working on acclimating the chosen plants to the desert environment with every generation, and now we have come to a point where I am studying how to preserve those genetics for future generations.
Without failure, you have no idea how to succeed and face challenges. When we raised our genetics inside an indoor “pod” I built while we were waiting for the greenhouse to be complete, we achieved a strain that topped 30-percent THC. And when the greenhouse was ready, we rushed to move the mother stock into the greenhouse. The mother stock all died, and we had to start almost from scratch with a few clippings that needed a lot of care.
That was a very tough lesson. In hindsight, we should have clipped the plant, made clones and acclimated the new clones to the greenhouse environment. We easily could have just made any kind of cannabis, but that wouldn’t do justice to Solaris’ design and purpose I envisioned. I lost a lot of time and money, and now the genetic is yielding 28-percent THC … and [a] great terpene profile. The next generation will only be … stronger and higher yield. I can tell you, doing something nobody has done makes you heavily doubt yourself. But this was not my first rodeo, and the theory and design were correct.
Everything is in the planning; before you spend one single dollar, you better anticipate delays, extra costs and less revenues.
Try to get into seeing the best grows of the time and find a way to improve the process and design.
When you enjoy what you do and see all the people daily that depend on you, you have no choice but to burn the midnight oil seven days a week. I take off a weekend here and there to refresh the mind and see a different perspective.
I’m there early every morning and work late hours. Nobody is expected to perform at my level, but it is encouraging, and anyone can interact with me, no reservation needed. I will stop what I’m doing and help anyone that approaches me. I’ve done every task to understand what they are going through.
The next phase is completing the scale up to 300,000 square feet. Each detail of design is constantly being questioned, and workflows are being created to get it right before we even have a shovel in the ground. It’s intense focus to scale up. And the new design is incorporating all the mistakes, failures and lessons learned over the last four years of Solaris.
I relax by watching a movie and knowing I have replied to every email with actionable answers.
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Melissa Schiller