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Two studies from the University of Georgia suggest that cannabis may be a pain-management substitute for chronic or acute pain and that medical cannabis laws lead to fewer opioid prescriptions. One study focusing on commercially insured cancer patients found that the opening of cannabis dispensaries led to reductions in opioid prescriptions. The lead author, Felipe Lozano-Rojas, stated that cannabis legalization has a role in mitigating the opioid epidemic, advising that moving toward cannabis for pain management seems safer after consulting a physician. The other study found that the enactment of medical cannabis laws led to a 16% fall in the rate of patients receiving opioid prescriptions, with the decrease observed across various demographics. < Back Studies Find Medical Cannabis Replaces Pain Medication; Reforms Lead to Fewer Opioid Prescriptions Nov 13, 2025 TG Branfalt Ganjapreneur Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Two studies from the University of Georgia suggest that cannabis may be a pain-management substitute for people with chronic or acute pain from conditions like cancer, and that medical cannabis laws lead to fewer opioid prescriptions. The study, titled “Cannabis Laws and Opioid Use Among Commercially Insured Patients With Cancer Diagnoses” and published last month in the journal JAMA Health Forum, focused on data from patients with cancer diagnoses, and followed how cannabis dispensary openings affected opioid prescription rates, the average number of days per prescription, and the average number of prescriptions per patient. The researchers found the rate of patients with cancer with opioid prescriptions was reduced by 41.07 per 10,000, the quarterly mean days’ supply was reduced by 2.54 days, and the mean number of prescriptions per patient was cut by 0.099. The study found adult-use dispensary openings were also associated with reductions in opioid outcomes, though estimated treatment effects were smaller, with the rate of prescriptions reduced by 20.63 per 10,000, the mean daily supply was cut by 1.09 days supplied per prescription, and the mean number of prescriptions per patient was reduced by 0.097. In a statement, Felipe Lozano-Rojas, lead author of the study and an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, said the studies “are consistent across states and subpopulations: Cannabis legalization has a role to play in mitigating the opioid epidemic.” “The opioid epidemic is ongoing. Moving away from opiates and toward cannabis seems to be a safer way of managing chronic and acute pain after discussing with the physician in charge of the case. That being said, this is not a free for all. These findings do not mean that everyone experiencing any pain should use cannabis.” — Lozano-Rojas in a statement The other study, forthcoming in the American Journal of Health Economics, titled “The Effect of Medical Cannabis Laws on Use of Pain Medications Among Commercially Insured Patients in the United States,” found that the enactment of medical cannabis laws led to fewer opioid prescriptions. On average, according to the researchers, the rate of patients receiving opioid prescriptions fell by 16% in states that had passed the reforms. “We were able to leverage the data we had access to in a way that shows the decrease in opioids happens across genders, across ages, across races, across socioeconomic demographics when medical cannabis is available as an alternative,” Lozano-Rojas said in a statement. “Even those who do receive opioid prescriptions received less in situations when medical cannabis was available.” < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... Pink Passion - Goldflower, Largo (Florida Medical) At Goldflower Dispensary in Largo, Florida, this Pink Passion caught my eye for its understated elegance—medium spear-shaped buds in a deep purple shade, lightly threaded with orange hairs and coated in a moderate layer of clear trichomes that give it a subtle, sticky sheen. Grown indoors by DH Farms under Doghouse's banner, this hybrid clocks in at 23.6% total THC, hinting at a session that's engaging but not exhausting... 1 2 3 4 5

Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas for the first 10 months of 2025 exceeded $240.9 million, a 5.75% increase over the $227.8 million recorded during the same period last year. < Back Arkansas medical cannabis sales at record pace Nov 11, 2025 Margaret Jackson MJbizDaily Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Medical marijuana sales in Arkansas for the first 10 months of 2025 reached more than $240.9 million – a 5.75% increase over the same period last year when sales totaled $227.8 million. Arkansas medical cannabis sales at record pace is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... Pink Passion - Goldflower, Largo (Florida Medical) At Goldflower Dispensary in Largo, Florida, this Pink Passion caught my eye for its understated elegance—medium spear-shaped buds in a deep purple shade, lightly threaded with orange hairs and coated in a moderate layer of clear trichomes that give it a subtle, sticky sheen. Grown indoors by DH Farms under Doghouse's banner, this hybrid clocks in at 23.6% total THC, hinting at a session that's engaging but not exhausting... 1 2 3 4 5

The House requires 217 votes to reopen the government, and at least 13 of the 219 GOP members are against the intoxicating hemp language. < Back 13 GOP House Reps Oppose Hemp Product Ban Ahead of Vote to End Shutdown Nov 12, 2025 Staff Cannabis Business Times Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link The House needs 217 votes to reopen the government; at least 13 of 219 GOP members oppose the intoxicating hemp language. < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... Pink Passion - Goldflower, Largo (Florida Medical) At Goldflower Dispensary in Largo, Florida, this Pink Passion caught my eye for its understated elegance—medium spear-shaped buds in a deep purple shade, lightly threaded with orange hairs and coated in a moderate layer of clear trichomes that give it a subtle, sticky sheen. Grown indoors by DH Farms under Doghouse's banner, this hybrid clocks in at 23.6% total THC, hinting at a session that's engaging but not exhausting... 1 2 3 4 5

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Missouri's cannabis microbusiness program, designed to aid disadvantaged communities, is seeing its first harvests and operations, but participants face significant struggles. Many owners, unable to secure loans or investors, have used their life savings or retirement funds to launch their cultivation or dispensary facilities. Challenges include state approval delays, expensive operating costs (like electric bills), security protocols, and a lack of manufacturing capability among wholesalers to create popular products like edibles and vapes. Despite these roadblocks, some businesses are starting to find success, with the first micro-dispensary having opened and others receiving approval to begin manufacturing products. The success of the micro-community is described as a "puzzle" that depends on growers, dispensaries, and manufacturers becoming operational simultaneously. < Back Missouri Marijuana Microbusinesses Begin First Crop Harvests Amid Struggle To Succeed Nov 11, 2025 Marijuana Moment Marijuana Moment Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link *“It’s so hard for the cannabis businesses. I don’t qualify for small business loans. So far, this has not been the blessing that I hoped it was going to be.”* *By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent* Samantha Blum hasn’t been able to secure investors for her small-scale marijuana cultivation facility in the two years since Missouri awarded her a microbusiness license. So she and her longtime partner, Anthony La Pietra, decided to give up and fund the entire operation themselves, cashing in La Pietra’s retirement to build a greenhouse in Adrian, an hour outside of Kansas City. After two years of “blood, sweat and tears,” they finally received the state’s final approval to begin operating on September 3. But just hours after the state’s email arrived, a massive storm crushed one side of the greenhouse. “To go from such a high to such an incredibly bottom low…” she said. “It’s been such a roller coaster.” Despite the setback, her family rallied to fix the wall, and now their business, Bud Wizard, is expected to have its first harvest in the coming weeks. Blum’s facility is among the 12 microbusinesses the state has approved to begin operating out of 68 total licenses issued. Two are dispensaries. The rest are wholesale licenses like Blum’s that can grow up to 250 plants and manufacture marijuana products. The microbusiness program—sometimes called the social-equity cannabis program—was designed to boost opportunities in the industry for people in disadvantaged communities that have been most impacted by the war on drugs. It began in 2023, after passing as part of the constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in 2022. Up until this summer, the state had approved only a handful licenses to commence operations—which involves meeting rigorous health standards and security protocols. But in the past few months, the microbusiness community has finally started to fill in, with the state greenlighting a surge of cultivation licensees. Like Blum, many of these owners stopped looking for funding and finally decided to put their life savings into getting the business off the ground. Now they’ve either had their first harvest this month or are expecting one in the next few weeks. James Mondl, owner of Klondike Cannabis micro cultivation facility in Farmington, just watched his first harvest ship Tuesday to another licensed facility for the manufacturing phase. “I haven’t completely exhaled, to be honest,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of time and money in this, and so to see the product leave today was as big a step—maybe a bigger one than when we brought plants in.” Wholesalers’ products can legally only go to the two operational microbusiness dispensaries at the moment: 816 Dispensary in Platte City and Kush 21 in Poplar Bluff. The Missouri Constitution mandates that micro cultivators only sell to micro dispensaries. Lesley Turek, chief equity officer with the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation who oversees the program, says the success of the micro community is like a “puzzle” because it depends on enough growers and dispensaries being up and running at the same time. And both of them depend on the middleman—the manufacturers—or wholesalers who have gotten approval to make things like edibles and vapes. “My excitement lies in the next six months,” Turek said. As anticipation around more micros opening builds, so does the pressure to succeed. Some license owners have already hit a number of road blocks and aren’t sure how much more they can invest into getting the business off the ground. Sam Vosburg, whose cultivation facility in Aurora has been operational since March, fears he invested his retirement on a failed business. “We’re suffering right now,” Vosburg, owner of Ozark Mountain Gypsy LLC, told The Independent in October. “I don’t know how much longer I keep my lights on. Our electric bills are crazy, and we’re not making any money. So, yeah, it’s not looking good.” However last week, Vosburg was approved to become one of the first two manufacturers, so he says he sees “a light at the end of the tunnel.” Blum is the chairwoman of the Missouri Microbusiness Association, and she says her passion for the industry is a major driving force in making it through “one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my entire life.” The other driver is her four daughters. “One day they’ll have dreams,” Blum said of her daughters, “and they’ll want to do something big, that’s insurmountable and accomplish it because they watched their mom and their dad accomplish it.” *Winning the lottery* Jimi Poe is the owner of 816 Dispensary, which was the first micro dispensary to open its doors to the public on Aug. 16. He’s quickly become a pillar for the microbusiness community, as someone to not only buy wholesalers’ products but also offer guidance on getting started. “I’m not going to succeed if I can’t get wholesalers to succeed,” he said. October was his biggest month yet, he said, with 1,500 transactions. He works closely with Blume LLC, one of the first operating wholesalers, because he says they’ve been “killing it” on their craft marijuana buds, or what the industry calls flower. Up until now, a major challenge for Poe has been that no wholesale facility had the capability to manufacture products, such as edibles or vapes, because it can require expensive equipment. With the state approving Vosburg and Kansas-City area microbusiness Urban Farm to manufacture products, Poe only expects his sales to grow. Another one in the Farmington area, Levity Cannabis, has also applied for approval, according to the division. Nearly 20 years ago, Poe was sent to prison for 14 months on a non-violent marijuana felony—a charge that made it hard to find work or a place to live. Because the program aims to mend some of the harm marijuana prohibition has caused on people’s lives, his offense made him eligible to apply for the microbusiness program. “When I was in prison, I was telling myself I was never going to sell cannabis again,” he said. “And now I’m legally able to sell cannabis at my own store. So it’s been a crazy journey, that is for sure.” In 2023, Mitchell Alexander submitted one microbusiness application with his uncle, Jesse Greco, who qualifies for the program as a disabled veteran, and paid a $1,500 fee. Their application was entered into the lottery with more than 1,600 applications, and they were picked. “He and I got together and decided to do it because we had nothing to lose,” Alexander said. “Because the lottery was: if you lose, you get your money back. If you win, you get your license.” Alexander runs ReLeaf Dispensary in Kansas City, and he’s excited to grow in the way that he believes produces the best weed: living soil. “No chemicals, no pesticides,” he said. “It’s literally, we’re just feeding the soil, and it’s as organic as it gets.” For Greco, cannabis has always been something he turned to in his life for his PTSD, Alexander said. They’ve invested their own money and resources, and he’s optimistic about their first harvest that’s expected just before Christmas. “We take so much pride in being completely independent,” he said. “We didn’t have any consulting groups help us out. We really just grassrooted this, and that’s exactly how we’re going to run this company.” The team at Monsta Farms LLC in Sarcoxie has a similar mantra. It’s a group that includes two couples who’ve all pulled together their own money and time. They all have a “strength in the building,” said co-owner Chris Hampel, and everyone’s doing something they’re passionate about. “I like watering the plants, for example,” Hampel said. “My wife hates watering the plants. But she’ll sit over there with dirt and pot plants all day long. And she loves that. I hate that.” However, they each balance their cannabis work with their fulltime jobs, including two who work as nurses. Their collective dream is to make it their fulltime jobs. They just had their first harvest on Monday. Chad Sommer, an owner of Strainworx LLC in Lebanon, is also expecting his first harvest soon, he said, after two years of trying to keep “everything in check.” “I mean, trying to keep family in check, trying to keep my fulltime job in check, and then also wanting to try to build this out,” he said. His specialty is industrial automation systems, and it’s taken time to finetune that process, he said. He got into cannabis because he suffered from migraines. He realized a cannabis gummy worked a lot better at controlling them than the expensive shots he was receiving. “So from that point, it’s held a special position in my heart,” Sommer said. Now his migraines are gone. His team had to “hit several retirement funds,” to start up the business, but they’re optimistic. “One thing that is a challenge is for many of the micros…starting resources,” he said. “It is a tough start. Everything is so expensive with the hope that one day you get a return.” *Financial troubles* When Vosburg’s cultivation facility Ozark Mountain Gypsy LLC got its approval to open in March, he was feeling “very optimistic.” “The only thing I didn’t calculate was the delays from the state,” he said. State marijuana rules mandate that regulators approve labels before products are sent to stores. And it took months for that approval to come back. “Now they’re putting all these tutorials on how to do this,” Vosburg said of the labels and packaging. “We were doing this from scratch with no help.” Turek said the division has worked to improve tutorials, and now each facility has a designated compliance representative who can help guide the micros through the labeling and packaging approval process. Another challenge for his team has been the lack of manufacturing equipment. It’s been hard to compete with the other companies that are selling only flower and pre-rolled joints. All together, Vosburg estimates they’ve put $500,000 of their own money into the business. And he fears they could lose it all at any moment. But as of last week, Vosburg was approved to manufacture products on a small scale, providing him with a way forward. “I could pay my electric bill if I can sell a few dabs by the end of the month,” he said. Veteran David Huckins owns a dispensary license in Columbia with his wife, and they lead a weekly podcast to help microbusinesses share resources on a variety of topics. But they aren’t anywhere close to being able to open, he said. While the cultivators can often find land to build a facility in rural areas, dispensaries need to be in places with high visibility and traffic. And that’s hard when landlords often don’t want to lease a building to dispensaries, Huckins said, and he can’t get capital to buy a building. The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation is not aware of any microbusinesses that have received loans from banks, a spokesperson said. “It’s so hard for the cannabis businesses,” Huckins said. “I don’t qualify for small business loans. So far, this has not been the blessing that I hoped it was going to be.” *This story was first published by Missouri Independent.* *Photo courtesy of Chris Wallis // Side Pocket Images.* The post Missouri Marijuana Microbusinesses Begin First Crop Harvests Amid Struggle To Succeed appeared first on Marijuana Moment. < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... 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Find the best THC seltzers of 2025. Leafly reviewed popular seltzers & chose what we think are the top picks for different needs & budgets. The post Leafly’s top 12 THC seltzers of 2025 appeared first on Leafly. < Back Leafly’s top 12 THC seltzers of 2025 May 6, 2025 Leafly Staff Leafly Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link Find the best THC seltzers of 2025. Leafly reviewed popular seltzers & chose what we think are the top picks for different needs & budgets. The post Leafly’s top 12 THC seltzers of 2025 appeared first on Leafly. < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... Pink Passion - Goldflower, Largo (Florida Medical) At Goldflower Dispensary in Largo, Florida, this Pink Passion caught my eye for its understated elegance—medium spear-shaped buds in a deep purple shade, lightly threaded with orange hairs and coated in a moderate layer of clear trichomes that give it a subtle, sticky sheen. Grown indoors by DH Farms under Doghouse's banner, this hybrid clocks in at 23.6% total THC, hinting at a session that's engaging but not exhausting... 1 2 3 4 5

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It’s time to stop blaming social media for failed marketing campaigns and look at creative ways to innovate and grow brand loyalty. Stop blaming Meta for failed cannabis marketing and get creative. < Back Stop blaming Meta for failed cannabis marketing and get creative May 30, 2025 Kevin Huhn MJ Biz Daily Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link It’s time to stop blaming social media for failed marketing campaigns and look at creative ways to innovate and grow brand loyalty without trying to fight an uphill battle. Stop blaming Meta for failed cannabis marketing and get creative is a post from: MJBizDaily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... Pink Passion - Goldflower, Largo (Florida Medical) At Goldflower Dispensary in Largo, Florida, this Pink Passion caught my eye for its understated elegance—medium spear-shaped buds in a deep purple shade, lightly threaded with orange hairs and coated in a moderate layer of clear trichomes that give it a subtle, sticky sheen. Grown indoors by DH Farms under Doghouse's banner, this hybrid clocks in at 23.6% total THC, hinting at a session that's engaging but not exhausting... 1 2 3 4 5

The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission has issued its first two medical cannabis cultivator licenses to Nancy Laughlin-Wagner of Midwest Cultivators Group LLC and Patrick Thomas, despite legal threats from the Attorney General's Office. These licenses were awarded after a voter-approved deadline and a scoring process that denied two other applicants, Crista Eggers and Casey Sledge, due to scores below the 70-point threshold. The commission's emergency regulations, which prohibit the sale of raw cannabis flower, vapes, smokeables, or edibles, have faced public opposition and legal challenges. The rubric for scoring applications will not be made public until after all licenses are awarded. < Back Nebraska Officials Award State’s First Medical Marijuana Business Licenses Oct 8, 2025 Marijuana Moment Marijuana Moment Article Link Facebook X (Twitter) WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Copy link *“I hope that the individuals that receive these licenses are good people that have every intention of providing good medicine to the people of the state that so desperately need it.”* *By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner* The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission offered the state’s first medical cannabis cultivator licenses Tuesday, nearly a week after the voter-set deadline of October 1. Commissioners unanimously offered the first two of up to four cultivator licenses, a move challenging the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office, which had threatened to sue the commission if it did so. The first license offerings went to Nancy Laughlin-Wagner of Omaha, on behalf of the Midwest Cultivators Group LLC, and to Patrick Thomas of Raymond. Applicants have five business days to accept the license. ‘Do right by the people’ Someone who answered the number listed on the application for Laughlin-Wagner said the group would not immediately comment. Perry Pirsch, a lawyer working with Thomas, told the Nebraska Examiner that Thomas is “grateful for the opportunity that’s been granted to him.” “I know that he will make the best out of it, responsibly, ethically, within the confines of the law, while trying to do right by the people of the State of Nebraska,” Pirsch said. Thomas said in his application that he is a lifelong Nebraskan with more than 20 years of experience in agriculture, farming and land management. He is the owner and operator of Thomas Construction, a contracting business specializing in large-scale municipal water main projects. Thomas’s application listed Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov as a reference. Thomas has a hemp cultivation license from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which he wrote that he would relinquish if he got a state license to grow medical cannabis. The application for Laughlin-Wagner indicates she will serve as chief executive officer of Midwest Cultivators Group alongside Frank Hayes of Omaha as chief financial officer and Dave Kanne of Carroll, Iowa as chief operating officer. Laughlin-Wagner is a registered nurse with more than two decades of executive leadership experience in hospital operations and managed care, according to the application. Hayes is the founder and president of Hayes & Associates LLC, a certified public accounting and consulting firm. Kanne has 30 years of agricultural and business management experience as co-owner of a family farming operation since 1993, which has 1,200 acres of corn and soybeans. “We are committed to ensuring that our operations align with the commission’s standards, Nebraska law and the highest levels of compliance, safety and patient care,” the Midwest Cultivators Group leaders said in their application. Any licensed cultivator can grow no more than 1,250 flowering plants at one time under commission regulations. The Medical Cannabis Commission plans to license transporters, product manufacturers and dispensaries at a future date. Unclear rubric scoring The commission also voted 3-0 to deny two other applications: Crista Eggers, for a facility in Yutan, and Casey Sledge, for a facility in Wayne. Eggers is executive director of Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana, the group that led the 2024 ballot measures that received approval from 71 percent of voters for legalizing medical cannabis and 67 percent of voters for a regulatory system. Applicants needed an average score of more than 70 on a 100-point scale. Commissioners devised the business metrics but have not publicly released how it set them. The commission received 39 cultivator applications between September 4 and September 23, which were advanced for evaluation based on a random lottery system. The average scores were 73.33 for Patrick Thomas, 72 for Nancy Laughlin-Wagner, 63.67 for Casey Sledge and 42.33 for Crista Eggers. The commission decided that an average of more than 70 made an application eligible for licensure. Eggers’s application had the widest range, with evaluators scoring it at 11, 44 and 72 points. Commissioner Lorelle Mueting of Gretna, a prevention specialist with Heartland Family Service, told reporters after the meeting that the scores closely followed commission regulations, which included requirements for a business and financial plan, growing location, security and more. “The rubric went right through the regulations,” Mueting said, pulling out her annotated copy of the regulations. “Everything is in here that people needed to submit.” Commissioners did not explain how Eggers’s scores ranged so widely, and they told reporters they were unwilling to say which commissioners gave what scores. Public weighs in The first licenses were set to be awarded September 30 until the September 29 resignations of Commissioners Bruce Bailey of Lincoln and Kim Lowe of Kearney, both of whom were part of an internal three-member evaluation team. Bailey had been the most supportive of a regulated but more permissive medical cannabis system, including for smoking marijuana. Under the commission’s emergency regulations, set for a public hearing next week, future dispensaries could not sell raw cannabis flower, vapes, smokeables or edibles. Nearly all members of the public testifying before the commission have opposed the proposed regulations, with some arguing that the voter-approved medical cannabis laws legalized all forms of cannabis for patient use and that smoking, for instance, might provide faster relief than tinctures or pills. Maggie Ballard, also a prevention specialist at Heartland Family Service with Mueting, thanked the commission Tuesday for its work on a task she said is “as challenging as giving a cat a bath.” She said she particularly appreciated restrictions on smoking. Ballard testified in support of Gov. Jim Pillen’s (R) appointment of Mueting to the commission in May. “I just want to echo my appreciation and the appreciation of many, many Nebraskans that are either unaware of these meetings or have been way too afraid to speak up at these meetings, because they understand how polarized this topic has become,” Ballard said. Lanette Richards of Scottsbluff, executive director of Monument Prevention, another drug prevention organization, also thanked the commission for regulations she said protect children. “Even though this commission is setting guidelines for medical marijuana, we all know there is no difference between marijuana and medical marijuana,” Richards said. Christy Knorr of Omaha, a hospice nurse, said a physician’s oath to do no harm includes medicine. She spoke of her wife’s fight with multiple myeloma, for which Knorr said marijuana helped provide some relief. Her wife died almost five years ago, and cannabis was the only medication to help take the edge off so she could sleep. “People deserve choices in what medications they take,” Knorr said. Lia Post of Springfield, a longtime medical cannabis advocate who said the medication helps her avoid opiates or other addictive substances, spoke in defense of Eggers as a mom who is trying to help her son. Post said whichever commissioner scored Eggers an “11” shouldn’t be on the commission. “I would trade everyone in this room for one Crista Eggers, including myself,” Post said. Next steps and legal threats The commission’s regulations are in temporary “emergency” status, lasting up to 180 days max. The rules will go up for a public hearing at 1 p.m. October 15 at the Nebraska State Office Building for up to three hours. No commissioner will be in attendance. Commissioners will decide after that hearing whether to finalize the regulations, which would require approval from Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R) and Pillen. Zachary Pohlman, a deputy solicitor general for Nebraska, in March told state lawmakers during a legislative hearing on a separate legislative bill that federal law continues to criminalize marijuana. Pohlman said that if the Medical Cannabis Commission “tries” to issue licenses, “the Attorney General’s Office will challenge that action as preempted and unenforceable.” A spokesperson for the AG’s Office declined Tuesday to comment on that previous position, which Hilgers has shared in court filings and public events. Former State Sen. John Kuehn (R) of Heartwell, a longtime marijuana opponent, continues to try to fight the laws in court, including through a similar preemption lawsuit. A Lancaster County District Court judge dismissed Kuehn’s latest lawsuit in June, which he is appealing to the Nebraska Supreme Court. In a brief Monday to the Nebraska Supreme Court on that Kuehn case, the AG’s Office, as well as an outside attorney for the Medical Cannabis Commission, did not repeat the licensing argument but suggested another legal path to the courthouse door. “The State itself could even challenge the Medical Cannabis Laws if, for example, it charges a defendant with illegal possession of cannabis, and the defendant raises the [Nebraska Medical Cannabis] Patient Protection Act as a defense,” the brief states. Since the voter-approved law took effect in December, patients have legally been able to possess up to 5 ounces of medical cannabis in Nebraska with a health care practitioner’s recommendation. The AG’s spokesperson declined to say Tuesday whether the state plans to challenge patient possession or whether any related guidance has been issued to local law enforcement. Medical Cannabis Commission members have entered closed sessions at nearly every meeting to discuss “imminent” or “pending” litigation, which included Tuesday. Commissioners declined to comment on possible legal threats. ‘Good medicine’ Eggers, while not addressing her license application, asked commissioners to release the business grading rubric while expressing her gratitude for moving forward with licensing. Said Eggers: “I hope that the individuals that receive these licenses are good people that have every intention of providing good medicine to the people of the state that so desperately need it.” The next scheduled regular meeting of the commission is 1 p.m. November 3 in the Nebraska State Office Building. *Evaluator scores of initial applications* Medical Cannabis Commission members, following two resignations last week, anonymously evaluated four cultivator applications over the past week. While the name of each evaluator was redacted on meeting materials, one commissioner’s evaluations ranged from 72 to 88, all passing. Scores from the other two evaluators ranged from 11 to 80. One appears to have given no passing scores, those higher than 70. *Patrick Thomas (Raymond)* - - Evaluator 1 score: 84. - Evaluator 2 score: 62. - Evaluator 3 score: 74. - *Average score: 73.33.* *Nancy Laughlin-Wagner (Omaha)*, on behalf of Midwest Cultivators Group LLC: - - Evaluator 1 score: 80. - Evaluator 2 score: 62. - Evaluator 3 score: 74. - *Average score: 72.* *Casey Sledge (Wayne)*, on behalf of Stonepine Works LLC: - - Evaluator 1 score: 56. - Evaluator 2 score: 47. - Evaluator 3 score: 88. - *Average score: 63.67.* *Crista Eggers (Yutan)*: - - Evaluator 1 score: 44. - Evaluator 2 score: 11. - Evaluator 3 score: 72. - *Average score: 42.33.* Because commissioners denied two applications, Eggers and Sledge, they will evaluate the next two randomly selected cultivator applications. Those applications could be approved in November. Eggers and Sledge can also appeal their evaluations until Oct. 23. Bo Botelho, general counsel for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, which is assisting the Medical Cannabis Commission, said the rubric won’t be made public until after licenses are awarded. He said state agencies don’t typically disclose how evaluators score applications or contracts, partly so applicants answer equally. “Like taking a test, if you know this question is worth a lot more, you may put a lot more information in there and not so much in the other ones, but those other ones are just as valuable,” Botelho said. “That’s why we generally don’t tell them how the scores are being divvied. We want the best response across the board.” Botelho said “there’s no public purpose” to releasing who gave what score to which applicant. “If there is a public purpose, I guess that argument can be made,” he continued. “But I would be afraid of that being used to maybe intimidate or harass an evaluator.” *This story was first published by Nebraska Examiner.* *Photo courtesy of Chris Wallis // Side Pocket Images.* The post Nebraska Officials Award State’s First Medical Marijuana Business Licenses appeared first on Marijuana Moment. < Previous Next > Recent Reviews Cookies & Alt Sol "Hollywood" Strain Review - Takoma Wellness Center As the name suggests, the Hollywood strain exudes the glitz and glamor of its namesake city. Grown by Alt Sol and now available at Takoma... Animal Face by RYTHM Strain Review (Maryland Recreational) Animal Face, cultivated by RYTHM, is a remarkable strain making its rounds at RISE dispensary in Silver Spring, Maryland. My awesome budt... 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