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Need to Know: California’s Space Coyote Infuses Prerolls with Popular Extract Some people like flower, some people like extracts. Some people like to mix them for combined effects. The latter group makes up the audience that Scott Sundvor and Libby Cooper, the founders of Space Coyote, are trying to reach with their extract-infused prerolls. Space

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Maine Dishes Out First Six Adult-Use Cannabis Business Licenses September 8, 2020, Frederick, MD – PRESS RELEASE – A2LA is pleased to announce the accreditation of Viridis Laboratories to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for cannabis testing. Viridis, based in Lansing, Mich., is A2LA’s first cannabis testing laboratory accredited in the state of Michigan.  “Our company is incredibly proud

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Lancaster County Sheriff Challenges Nebraska Medical Cannabis Initiative in Court After a delayed grand opening due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan-based Nature’s Finest opened its Battle Creek dispensary in early June to serve the state’s medical and adult-use cannabis markets with a variety of products, as well as friendly and knowledgeable customer service from

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DEA Proposes New Hemp and CBD Regulations to Comply with 2018 Farm Bill While hemp is now federally legal, the inability to distinguish it from its illegal cousin marijuana—cannabis that has more than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)—has posed issues for both law enforcement and hemp industry participants. But a new field test kit may soon change

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Maine Expects Adult-Use Cannabis Sales to Launch by the End of the Year TORONTO—July 30, 2020–PRESS RELEASE–FSD Pharma Inc. today announced that it has notified Health Canada of the Company’s decision to forfeit the licenses of its wholly-owned subsidiary, FV Pharma Inc., and suspend all activities by FV Pharma within 30 days of the notification date.

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After Unsuccessful 2020 Signature Campaign to Legalize Adult-Use Cannabis in Missouri, Group Looks to 2022 Nebraskans For Medical Marijuana hope to find out by mid-August if enough of the more than 182,000 signatures they submitted July 2 are valid to qualify for a ballot initiative this November. The campaign submitted well over the roughly 121,000

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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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