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Ilera Holistic Healthcare Begins Selling Into Louisiana Medical Cannabis Market California-based Success Centers launched roughly 40 years ago to assist youth released from detention centers with life skills and employment. Now, the organization has expanded to the cannabis industry, where it helps connect employers with qualified job seekers in the Bay Area with a focus

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Virginia Will Decriminalize Cannabis on July 1 NEW YORK, June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -PRESS RELEASE- AWH (formerly Ascend Wellness Holdings), a multi-state, vertically integrated cannabis operator, today announced its partnership with Last Prisoner Project. LPP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to clemency and expungement, re-entry programs and advocacy for individuals with cannabis convictions. The partnership will

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Whistleblower Alleges that U.S. Attorney General William Barr Launched Unfounded Antitrust Investigations into Cannabis Mergers Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Justice A Department of Justice whistleblower has testified that U.S. Attorney General William Barr was motivated by his personal dislike of the cannabis industry when he launched multiple Antitrust Division merger investigations into

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BeLeaf Medical Launches Missouri’s First Medical Cannabis Cultivation Operation with More to Come: The Starting Line Helena, Mont., June 19, 2020 –PRESS RELEASE- Today, New Approach Montana, a Helena-based marijuana reform campaign, will be submitting over 130,000 signatures to counties across the state in order to qualify two complementary marijuana legalization initiatives for the November

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Medical Patients Will Benefit from Montana’s ‘Untethering’ of Program, According to Dispensary Managers, Advocacy Groups Following Montana’s “untethering” of medical patients, allowing them to purchase cannabis from more than one dispensary, industry stakeholders say patient access is improving in the state. In the roughly one week since untethering went into effect June 2, Keva Aguirre,

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California Offers License Fee Deferrals to Cannabis Businesses, Massachusetts Adult-Use Dispensaries Prepare to Reopen with Curbside Pickup: Week in Review The week of May 24, Michigan’s vertically integrated Green Peak Innovations (GPI) and the nonprofit Last Prisoner Project (LPP) plan to launch a new brand, Two Joints. One percent of proceeds from Two Joints products

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Virginia Becomes the 27th State to Decriminalize Cannabis Possession EDMONTON, May 20, 2020 /CNW/ – PRESS RELEASE – Aurora Cannabis Inc., a Canadian licensed producer, and Reliva, LLC, a hemp-derived CBD products company in the United States, have announced that they have entered into an agreement  pursuant to which Aurora will acquire all of the

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Veteran-Owned GreenBroz, Inc. Partners With Gard’n Clean to Build PPE Remediator in Response to COVID-19 Crisis Over the past several years, social media has grown into a—and in some cases, the—marketing medium of choice for businesses. That’s especially true for videos. For some companies that produce toys for children, “unboxing videos” can rack up millions

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DEA Deschedules Epidiolex, Senators Urge SBA to Extend Economic Assistance to Cannabis Businesses: Week in Review California is the largest cannabis market in the U.S., but it also is the state market that arguably has grappled with the greatest challenges since adult-use legalization rolled out there Jan. 1, 2018. With a many-decades-long history of cannabis

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New York Governor’s Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization Proposal Cut from State Budget: Legalization Watch New York’s cannabis advocates had a renewed sense of hope at the dawn of the new year, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed in his January State of the State address to renew his push to legalize adult-use in 2020 after last year’s

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