Month: November 2018 (Page 21)

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Some Michigan communities are already prohibiting adult-use marijuana businesses a little more than a week after voters in the state approved legalization of recreational cannabis. According to various newspaper reports, Niles City in southwestern Michigan and Pinckney village in the southeastern part of the state have decided to opt out atContinue Reading

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Canada’s leading medical cannabis company by revenue is ready to expand into the United States “the moment it becomes allowable,” one of its executives said at MJBizCon in Las Vegas. Marc Lakmaaker, vice president of Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis, discussed the multinational cannabis producer’s plan to enter the world’s largest economyContinue Reading

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Part grand social experiment, part technological marvel and part dystopian capitalist nightmare, the airport is in many ways ideal for marijuana. At the airport, there are interminable waits, frenzied rushes, unexpected and unexplained stressors, and soul-grinding battles with faceless and inscrutable bureaucracies. These come in waves, one after the other,Continue Reading

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Pennsylvania-based Ilera Holistic Healthcare is taking over the contract to grow medical marijuana on behalf of Louisiana’s Southern University for the state’s MMJ program. Shreveport TV station KTBS reported that the company with the initial contract – Advanced Biomedics – never became operational because of disputes between the owners. Ilera boughtContinue Reading

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The movie “Almost Famous,” about a fledgling rock critic on tour with a band in the 1970s, has a scene where a roadie takes out a joint to share. “I know this is good,” he says. “It’s from Crosby.” Catching up with 77-year-old David Crosby in Monterey, California on hisContinue Reading

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Denver cannabis technology business MJ Freeway and MTech Acquisition, a special-purpose acquisition firm, said their new holding company set to list on the Nasdaq will be named Akerna once their merger is completed. In a news release, Scott Sozio, CEO of MTech (Nasdaq: MTEC), said the name Akerna – with “kern” at its centerContinue Reading