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Anne McLellan, a former deputy prime minister and Liberal Party Public Safety Minister, shared her thoughts with Marijuana Business Daily about the road to legalization in Canada.

By Omar Sacirbey

Marijuana business owners and investors in the United States aren’t viewing Canada’s looming legalization of recreational marijuana as a potential competitive threat.

Rather, they see it as an opportunity to further grow the U.S. cannabis industry.

Flow Kana, a San Francisco distributor that specializes in craft-grown marijuana, shared more details Tuesday about plans to transform a former Northern California wine estate, saying it will build a “cannabis institute” catering to small-batch  MJ growers.

A turf war over Arizona’s medical cannabis vaporizer market has spilled into the courts, with one multistate marijuana company suing another over an alleged smear campaign.

The upcoming implementation of California’s state medical marijuana laws as well as the new recreational cannabis system have led to policy disagreements between those in the longstanding industry and organized labor, which is eager to get involved.

Baker, a Denver-based software provider that links cannabis dispensaries with their customers, announced it has secured $1.6 million since an August seed round, bringing its total funding to $3.5 million.

Poseidon Asset Management, a marijuana-focused investment management firm in San Francisco, led the funding round. Other funders were chiefly existing investors, including serial entrepreneur Michael Lazerow as well as Base Ventures and XG Ventures, two venture capital firms based in California.