Most people in the cannabis industry know Oklahoma is going through a Wild West phase right now. The state’s loose medical marijuana regulations have sparked a chaotic dispensary boom. As of last week, there were more than 1,600 dispensaries serving 161,000 registered MMJ patients.
One dispensary sued for trademark infringement, another shut down for selling meth. Not a good look, OK.
We’ve seen other states go through this phase. Colorado, Washington, and California went through similar stages in their early dispensary years. Things got a little loose, and eventually state legislators created a regulatory system that offered patients a modicum of quality assurance.
The thing about a Wild West period is that… well, it can get wild. And this week things went a little over the top in Oklahoma.
Treehouse, TreeHouse, House of Tree
On Monday, news broke that a dispensary in Tulsa known as the Treehouse was being sued for trademark infringement by Nelvana Enterprises, a Canadian company that produces a children’s TV show of the same name.