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Acreage Holdings inks $72 million cannabis real estate deal

Acreage Holdings, a multistate marijuana operator, signed a sale-leaseback deal valued at more than $72 million for cannabis…

News October 25
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Chicago wants to charge maximum 3% tax on recreational marijuana sales

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot proposed in her 2020 budget that the city impose the maximum local tax of…

News October 24
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Chicago marijuana firm inks $29 million real estate deal

Revolution Global, a Chicago-based cannabis company, will more than double the capacity at its flagship cultivation facility in…

News October 17
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Chicago allows some adult-use cannabis sales downtown

Chicago’s City Council approved a zoning ordinance that bans recreational marijuana stores from the central business district but…

News October 16
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Week in Review: Cannabis merger goes up in smoke, regulators target MJ vaping, Maine inches toward adult-use sales & more

MedMen and PharmaCann scrap their planned merger, state and federal officials act against marijuana vaping, Maine moves toward…

News October 11
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California awards cities $10 million in social equity marijuana grants

Ten cities in California will divide $10 million from the state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control to help social…

News October 9
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Will Illinois change the social equity landscape for the marijuana industry?

Illinois is set to open recreational cannabis dispensaries Jan. 1 after becoming the first state in the nation to…

News October 9
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MedMen and PharmaCann terminate $682 million cannabis merger; MedMen CFO ousted

MedMen, a Los Angeles-based multistate marijuana operator, announced that its blockbuster acquisition of PharmaCann has been scuttled and…

News October 8
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Illinois releases social equity map for adult-use marijuana licensing

Illinois officials identified areas where applicants who want to legally grow and sell recreational cannabis would get preference…

News September 30
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CDC reports majority of patients sickened in vape epidemic used marijuana vaporizer devices – many from illicit market

Health officials reported on Friday that the majority of those sickened in the vaping health crisis used cannabis…

News September 27
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