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Working Lunch Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It's lunchtime, Chicago. For the first time since 2019, Illinois regulators have approved new medical conditions to qualify for medical cannabis, all centered on women’s health. Endometriosis, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids and female orgasmic disorder were approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health, at the recommendation of the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board. While other treatments may be effective at shrinking fibroids and cysts, which marijuana will not do, medical cannabis may relieve pain associated with those conditions, said board co-chair Dr. Leslie Mendoza Temple. Meanwhile, one of the largest cannabis companies in the country, Green Thumb Industries, announced Friday that it will open a hemp products store selling edibles and margaritas at the Salt Shed concert hall in Chicago. Read that story and more in today's Working Lunch. Get news alerts | Top business stories | Real estate | | | | State regulators added the conditions after a nearly six-year drought without new approvals, despite Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations. | | | | | If you can’t beat them, join them. That seems to be the approach of some cannabis companies as the hemp industry has cut into their market. | | | | | The complaint against the Chicago-based company alleges that its decades-old HACER scholarship program violates federal law because students who are not Hispanic or Latino are not eligible to apply. | | | | | Supplanting the onetime printing plant with the planned $1.7 billion gambling palace remains a high priority for Bally’s and the city. | | | | | The MySports skinny bundle will launch in 24 markets with those in Chicago able to receive the local ABC, NBC and Fox affiliates. | | | | | The home was built in 2004 and Richards paid $569,908 for it in late 2010. | | | |
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