A cannabis dispensary which opened this week in Harwood Heights hopes to provide the first drive-thru cannabis in Illinois, if state legislators working to legalize it are successful.
A public hearing is scheduled for the coming days in Franklin Park for the public to weigh in on a request to bring a cannabis dispensary to town – replacing a pancake restaurant currently at the site. Lulu Belle’s Pancake House, at 3147 N. Mannheim Road in the west suburb, could be transformed into a cannabis dispensary if approved – ultimately – by the Village Board. One of the first stops on that journey, however, is a public hearing before the Franklin Park Zoning Board of Appeals. Nicholas Walny, Franklin Park’s director of community development and zoning, told Pioneer Press […]
Some new license holders, though, say that funding assistance is needed for them to allow businesses to open.
A crying 6-year-old was brought to an emergency department after being found sluggish and cold to the touch. The parents had been at work when the babysitter gave several cookies from the kitchen to the child as a snack. Each cookie contained several adult doses of THC, the part of marijuana that gets people high. […]
Tinley Park passed an ordinance Tuesday to prohibit the sale, distribution and use of kratom, but granted exceptions in the first year.
Evergreen Park Mayor Kelly Burke said some people who spoke at the April 15 hearing were against the proposal and some were in favor of the village getting its first marijuana dispensary.
Illinois lawmakers again failed to take action to keep dangerous hemp products out of the hands of children, prompting a call from Gov. J.B. Pritzker to regulate the industry. The measure had bipartisan support and easily passed the Senate, but stalled in the House of Representatives at the end of the legislative session Wednesday. Divisions […]
For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana just about every day has surpassed the number who drink that often, a shift some 40 years in the making as recreational pot use became more mainstream and legal in nearly half of U.S. states.
The last thing most business owners want is to be taxed and regulated, but hemp business owners are asking for just that — as a way to keep their industry alive. Hemp entrepreneurs came out Tuesday in favor of a proposal to license hemp sales, require testing and labeling of their products, prohibit products that look like well-known snack brands, and limit sales to those 21 and over. The bill also would impose taxes on the products. That proposal stands in contrast with a bill backed by the Cannabis Business Association of Illinois, which would prohibit sales of hemp-derived intoxicating […]
As the federal government signals a shift in marijuana classification, area Indiana legislators have little faith it will influence the state to take action toward legalizing marijuana in some form. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The proposal, which still has […]