COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The St. Louis area’s first medical marijuana dispensary is slated to open in the city’s Illinois suburbs. HCI Alternatives in Collinsville plans a grand opening at noon Monday at a retail location adjacent to the Illinois State Police’s regional headquarters. A second St. Louis-area dispensary in the village of Sauget near…
CHICAGO (AP) – A statewide coalition plans to launch a social media campaign to press Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration to expand the medical marijuana pilot program to more patients. The Cannabis Patient Advocacy Coalition says its campaign will include short video testimonials from Illinois residents. It kicks off Monday with an Iraq War veteran…
CHICAGO (AP) – Officials say Illinois patients legally purchased nearly $1.7 million worth of medical marijuana during November and December Program director Joseph Wright on Monday announced sales figures since Nov. 9, when Illinois launched regulated sales with the opening of the state’s first licensed cannabis dispensaries. Wholesale sales – what growers sold to dispensaries…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The nascent medical marijuana business in Illinois is off to a slow start with fewer than 4,000 approved patients. That hasn’t kept away a cadre of cannabis entrepreneurs who once relied on guns, badges, tough drug laws and lengthy prison sentences to fight the drug. The Associated Press has identified no…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois residents who want to add specific diseases to the state’s medical marijuana pilot program have another chance to submit suggestions during January. The Illinois Department of Public Health will accept petitions starting Jan. 1 and continuing through the month. The program allows people to suggest new diseases for the program twice…
( KTRS ) Illinois officials say the state’s first medical marijuana patients have purchased just over $800,000 worth of cannabis during the program’s first month. The numbers indicate Illinois has collected roughly $56,550 in taxes from wholesale sales of medical marijuana during the month. Marijuana wholesalers pay a 7 percent tax to the state. Program…
(KTRS) – About 3,600 patients in Illinois can now legally purchase medical marijuana. The Illinois Department of Public Health confirms that 300 more patients were approved to take part in the pilot medical marijuana program–that is a larger increase than in recent months. The first dispensaries in the state started selling cannabis on November 9.…
Officials predict there will be a dozen dispensaries by the end of the month and up to 25 by the end of the year
( KTRS ) The number of Illinois patients approved to use medical marijuana continues to climb as dispensaries get ready to sell the drug for the first time. The Illinois Department of Public Health says it has approved 3,300 patients to use medical marijuana in the state’s pilot program, including 20 children. The department began mailing…
Springfield, IL (KTRS) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner issued licenses to companies to run medical marijuana businesses. A report from the AP states that the governor issued 70 licenses before out-of-state criminal background checks could be performed using an FBI database. The Illinois State Police say the background checks have still not been performed as…