Day: February 27, 2019

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Starbucks executives told a nation of curious cannabis enthusiasts last year that the company had no interest in getting involved with the cannabis trade. But now, it appears the coffee giant is reconsidering that hardline stance. In response to a question about whether the nation’s largest coffee chain would everContinue Reading

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New Hampshire’s House gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a bill legalizing a recreational marijuana industry that would allow an unlimited number of licenses statewide. A similar bill passed the House last year before dying in the Republican-controlled Senate. Democrats, who added legalization to their party platform last year, nowContinue Reading

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Advocates are concerned expanding the law would unintentionally impact patients who are vaping medical cannabis — for example, in apartments where vaping bans could be adopted. The post Cannabis Advocates Wary as Colorado Mulls E-Cig Limits appeared first on Leafly. Read More: Cannabis Advocates Wary as Colorado MullsContinue Reading

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It’s no secret that across much of the country, cannabis is now available for retail purchase. More adults than ever before can now walk into dispensaries aimed either at recreational users or medical marijuana patients and walk out with legal bud (or tinctures, or gummies, or dabs, whatever). But youContinue Reading

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4Front Holdings, a U.S. cannabis retail and brand company based in Phoenix, expanded its national footprint with acquisitions in Massachusetts and Arizona. 4Front acquired Healthy Farms, which has two dispensaries and a cultivation facility in Massachusetts, and PHX Interactive, owner of Greens Goddess in Phoenix, a holder of a vertically integratedContinue Reading

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If the bodegas of New York City can sell beer and cigarettes, then they should also have the right to sell marijuana, as well — this is the sentiment coming from market owners across the five boroughs. Bodega owners are fighting for the opportunity to get in on legal weedContinue Reading

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A new report in the renowned scientific journal Nature details how synthetic biologists at the University of California Berkeley have genetically engineered yeast that can produce marijuana’s main active ingredients of THC and CBD. This report is notable, researchers say, because this means that one has to do to createContinue Reading