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SNDL Streamlines Cannabis Operations to Enhance Competitiveness, Profitability

The Canadian licensed producer is consolidating its cultivation activities with a goal of becoming profitable by 2024.

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Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research’s Hemp Research Consortium Provides Grants to Cornell University for Hemp Breeding Program

The research aims to improve yields and traits in U.S. hemp crops.

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Cresco Labs Exits Arizona, Unlocks $32 Million in Non-Dilutive Capital

In addition to selling a Sunnyside dispensary, the company closed a conventional mortgage on properties in New York.

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Debunking 6 Claims About Ohio’s Cannabis Legalization Measure

Attack ads on Ohio’s Issue 2 ballot measure say legalization would have “zero safeguards” for children, but proponents call this assertion a lie.

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280E: How the Cannabis Industry Got Here

As cannabis businesses brace for potential tax relief should the plant be rescheduled, a look at the origins of IRC Section 280E and why it applies to legal, state-level cannabis companies.

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New York Regulators Extend License Application Deadline, Approve Increased Enforcement Authority Against Illicit Cannabis Operations

The Cannabis Control Board signed off on the changes at its Oct. 17 meeting.

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Cannabis Council of Canada Calls on Government to Save Struggling Industry

The national organization of cannabis licensees underscored the need for change on the country’s fifth anniversary of federal legalization.

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INDCO Introduces Cap Mounted Tote Lid Mixers Ideal for Light Viscosity Materials

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Maryland Judge Bars State From Enforcing Ban on Hemp-Derived THC Sales

An injunction issued Oct. 12 suspends part of the state’s adult-use cannabis law that barred some retailers from selling intoxicating hemp-derived products containing THC.

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New York’s Adult-Use Cannabis Retail Footprint Growing Again

New operators are opening the state’s first dispensaries in Astoria, Harlem, Lower East Side and Saranac Lake.

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Alabama Plans to Award Medical Cannabis Business Licenses by End of 2023 as Verano Lawsuit Dismissed

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Are California Cities Intentionally Misinterpreting Landmark Cannabis Legislation?

Local jurisdictions must have ordinances by 2024 allowing medical cannabis delivery, but some bureaucracies are sticking to “outside-in” models.

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New York’s Union Square Travel Agency: A Cannabis Store Partners With House of Cannabis on Delivery, Education

Guests at the House of Cannabis can use onsite kiosks to order cannabis products for delivery from Union Square Travel Agency in a unique collaboration designed to enhance the experience of visiting the attraction.

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Verano to Commence Trading on Cboe Canada Oct. 18

The company’s executives will ring the opening bell in Toronto.

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Verano Expands Retail Footprint in Connecticut With the Opening of Zen Leaf Newington, the Company’s Second Social Equity Joint Venture Location in Connecticut and Fourth Dispensary Statewide

Located south of Connecticut’s capital and with a population of 30,000 residents, Zen Leaf Newington is the second of six planned social equity joint venture dispensaries the company plans to open across the state.

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‘Minority-Owned Companies That Mean Something’: Higher Collective Opens First Two Dispensaries in Connecticut

The company, made up of industry veterans dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable cannabis industry, plans to open eight total retail locations across the state through partnerships with social equity operators.

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Kaycha Labs Forms Collaboration With National Institute of Standards and Technology

The new cooperative research and development agreement with the institute, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, will work toward standardizing measurements in the cannabis industry.

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Green Thumb Expands Florida Retail Presence

The multistate cannabis operator is set to open RISE Dispensary Brandon, its ninth retail location in the Sunshine State.

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Canadian Government Releases Report on Legislative Review of Cannabis Act

The “What We Heard Report” presents findings suggesting that legal cannabis operators are struggling to turn a profit and become financially viable.

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California Governor Vetoes Cannabis Café Bill, Acts on Other Cannabis-Related Legislation

Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed concerns that the bill to establish cannabis cafés would weaken the state’s protections ensuring smoke-free workplaces.

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