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Curio Wellness and Ascend team up to expand cannabis footprints

Cannabis multistate operators Curio Wellness and Ascend Wellness Holdings each are entering new states through a strategic manufacturing and distribution partnership.

News August 13
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Colorado marijuana complaint highlights industry’s ongoing testing scandal

Colorado’s largest marijuana cultivator filed a lawsuit against Bonanza Cannabis Co., claiming the licensed operator knowingly infused products with hemp-derived THC, manufactured gummies and vapes using harmful chemicals and sold…

News August 13
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Maryland cannabis retailer’s employees unionize, citing poor working conditions

Employees of The Apothecarium Dispensary in Cumberland, Maryland, voted 25-0 to form a union with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27.

News August 12
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New York still reviewing adult-use marijuana license applications from 2023

New York regulators hope to finish reviewing adult-use marijuana business license applications filed in late 2023 "by the end of the year."

News August 12
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Rescheduling, Farm Bill trigger cannabis industry lobbying blitz

Encouraged by the first tangible steps toward federal marijuana reform in a generation - and threatened by hemp-derived competitors - MJ companies are spending more than ever to win friends…

News August 12
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Trump touches on legal marijuana, says he’ll weigh in ‘soon’ on Florida adult use

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election and a Florida voter, said during an extended news conference he’ll weigh in "fairly soon" on the Sunshine State’s adult-use…

News August 9
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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 law judge.

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 tact on its federal tax liability.

News August 8
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