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Alabama to award 2 medical cannabis grow licenses despite stalled process

Alabama regulators will issue business licenses to two medical cannabis cultivators based on the recommendation of an administrative…

News August 9
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Kentucky asks medical marijuana license applicants to create extensive plans

Kentucky is a lottery state that requires substantive and objective, narrative-like information from cannabis business license applicants.

News August 9
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Cannabis MSO Curaleaf swaps CEOs, stakes out new 280E tax position

Boris Jordan is succeeding Matt Darin as CEO at cannabis operator Curaleaf Holdings, which is taking a new…

News August 8
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Michigan outlines penalties for violators of marijuana business rules

Marijuana businesses in Michigan now will have a better idea of the penalties they might face for violating…

News August 8
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Canadian cannabis operator High Tide secures CA$15 million credit line

Canadian cannabis retailer and e-commerce platform provider High Tide has finalized a credit line of 15 million Canadian dollars…

News August 8
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Nonpayment is No. 1 reason marijuana firms fail: Q&A with collection expert Brett Gelfand

Brett Gelfand of Cannabiz Collects and Cannabiz Credit Association offers best practices for plant-touching marijuana companies to break…

News August 8
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Connecticut’s cannabis social equity group gets new executive director

The government body that manages social equity activity for Connecticut’s adult-use cannabis market, has a new executive director.

News August 7
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Marijuana MSO Jushi refinances $53 million loan

Jushi Holdings, a vertically integrated, marijuana multistate operator, refinanced a roughly $53 million senior secured credit facility.

News August 7
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Missouri regulators recall 2,600 cannabis products over improper testing

Missouri regulators recalled more than 2,600 cannabis products after discovering they weren’t properly lab-tested.

News August 7
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