MA regulators investigate licensing limits of cannabis firms Acreage, Sea Hunter

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Massachusetts regulators are scrutinizing whether cannabis companies Acreage Holdings and Sea Hunter Therapeutics violated state limits on how many marijuana business licenses a single entity can own, according to The Boston Globe.

News of the investigation comes on the heels of a report from the newspaper that questioned whether the two companies controlled an excess of licenses through complex business networks, high-interest loans and other methods.

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