Now that a few medical marijuana cultivation facilities have been authorized to grow cannabis, dispensaries are getting ready to disperse the medicine to the public.

Although dispensaries in Illinois aren’t expecting product until this fall, facility owners are getting ready to open their buildings to educate the public about the process.

Cameron Lehman, co-founder and CEO of Terra Herbal Health, LLC, said the building at 8195 Express Drive, in Marion, is still under construction, but he plans to have it complete by mid-August.

The dispensary is renovating an 8,000-square-foot building across the street from the airport in Marion.

Some Illinois medical marijuana cultivators received the green light to begin growing medicine this past week from the state.

Officials at Ataraxia, the marijuana cultivator in Illinois State Police District 19 in Albion, announced Monday it received state authorization to begin growing medical cannabis.

The announcement for one of the first cultivators to begin growing product comes nearly two years after former Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law making medical marijuana legal in Illinois.

Gov. Bruce Rauner granted the cultivation and dispensary licenses in February.

BELLINGHAM — A medical marijuana business is looking to plant seeds on Williams Way.

Beacon Compassion Center, one of the 50 new medical marijuana dispensary applicants that filed paperwork with the state in late June, will meet with the Board of Selectmen Monday on its plans to grow and process medical marijuana here.

President Rina Cametti and Executive Director Steve Angelo of Walpole hope to grow marijuana for three dispensaries, including one in Framingham, out of a 34,000-square-foot warehouse in the Williams Way industrial park.

Cametti and Angelo met with the Board of Health recently and will meet with selectmen seeking a letter of support.

When Jazmin Hupp was searching for a container for her marijuana at the Cannabis Cup trade show in Denver, all she could find were boring, utilitarian glass jars.

So she asked a vendor at one of the booths if he had anything more elegant. He offered to make her a jar in pink.

Her immediate conclusion: “You guys need some help.”

Hupp’s experience may shed some light on why women account for only about a third of heavy and moderate cannabis users, even as they make up about half of occasional consumers, according to the Brightfield Group, a market-research firm. Women like Hupp say that’s partly because current pot purveyors aren’t offering the products they want and are marketing in ways that annoy them.

DELAVAN, Ill., July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cultivation operations have begun at Revolution Cannabis – Delavan, an enormous, state of the art facility designed to lead the world in production, research and development of medicines derived from cannabis. The historic first crop of cannabis plants is now healthy and strong, having been under lights for several days already.  The first crop contains a large number of genetic strains-- each specially chosen for its unique cannabinoid profile and prospective value treating specific debilitating medical conditions.

Minnesota Rep. Dan Schoen has taken a contract-basis job as security consultant of the cannabis company LeafLine Labs. He will be on unpaid leave until the end of the year, to aid in LeafLine’s clinic operations. He co-sponsored last year’s medical marijuana bill.
 

Minnesota State Representative Dan Schoen, DFL-Cottage Grove, accepted a contract-basis job as a security consultant of the medical marijuana manufacturer LeafLine Labs.

The Cottage Grove police officer co-sponsored last year's medical marijuana bill, and worked with LeafLine Labs when the cannabis manufacturer was looking for cities in which to operate.

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For two months one man posted Craigslist advertisements seeking “high net worth investors to strategically partner with one of the largest MMJ chains in Colorado.”

Cannabis candies, concentrates, tinctures, e-cigs and top shelf grows: marijuana retail products are exploding and prices are coming down in pot shops. The customer base is broadening too.

“We’re getting lots of tourists, lots of locals, lots of medical marijuana patients,” said Kyle Regan a manager at Uncle Ike’s recreational pot shop in Seattle. “When we first opened, we had the older crowd, forty and up, coming in,” he said, but now that prices have gone down the store is seeing more twenty-somethings as well.