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Cresco Labs to sell marijuana facilities to REIT for $46.3M under leaseback deal

Chicago-based Cresco Labs will sell two cultivation and processing facilities in Illinois to Innovative Industrial Properties, a real…

News September 27
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A new way to commercialize cannabis in Canada: Q&A with Mark Spear of Wildfire Collective

Wildfire Collective is spearheading Canada’s first exclusively outdoor, multisite craft cannabis operation focusing on high terpene, full spectrum extracts.…

News September 27
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Uruguay’s hemp exports could start next year: Q&A with Sergio Vazquez of the agriculture ministry

Uruguay could see the start of an export stream for hemp as early as 2020, after a period of…

News September 26
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Auxly Cannabis closes CA$123 million investment from tobacco giant Imperial Brands

Auxly Cannabis finalized an investment from Imperial Brands worth 123 million Canadian dollars ($92 million), one of the…

News September 26
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Canada ‘falling woefully short’ of displacing illicit cannabis market, researcher says

Canada’s regulated cannabis sales accounted for only 14% of total demand by volume in June, according to a…

News September 25
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Why earnouts matter in cannabis M&A

Earnouts are a common risk-allocation provision in cannabis and hemp mergers and acquisitions used to bridge the business-value…

News September 25

Australian capital legalizes recreational marijuana

Australia's capital is the first part of the country to legalize recreational marijuana for personal use.

News September 25
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Auxly Cannabis Group partner Sunens closes CA$84M credit facilities with Bank of Montreal

Sunens Farms, a federal cannabis applicant in Leamington, Ontario, closed a nonconvertible debt deal underwritten by the Bank…

News September 25
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First commercial medical cannabis export from Latin America sent to Australia

Uruguayan-based Fotmer Life Sciences announced Tuesday that the company has become the first to complete a "commercial export…

News September 24
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Proposed overhaul of Australia’s medical cannabis framework ‘far too slow,’ industry officials say

Executives welcomed recommendations to improve the framework governing Australia’s medical cannabis scheme as a potential breakthrough, but some…

News September 23
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