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Legislation and Regulation

Simply Pure Developing Franchise Model, Cause-Based Brand

The company plans to partner with social equity licensees to establish firm footholds in the industry and obtain generational wealth.

January 21, 2021

Legislation and Regulation

Need to Know: Oakland’s ECO Cannabis Helps Marginalized and Oppressed People Break into the Industry

ECO runs incubator spaces for social equity businesses, purchases 50% of its product from social equity companies, and half its employees were once incarcerated.

January 15, 2021

Michigan

Following Its Entry into Adult Use, Grand Rapids’ Pharmhouse Wellness Set to Expand

Once limited in opportunities by his criminal record of cannabis charges, including a felony for manufacturing, Casey Kornoelje now channels his knowledge of the plant into advancing his legal cannabis business.

January 11, 2021

Legislation and Regulation

10 Notable M&A Deals That Happened (and Didn’t) in 2020

Lower valuations and the coronavirus pandemic made for an interesting year of mergers and acquisitions in cannabis. Here, we look back on this year’s most talked-about transactions.

December 14, 2020

Medical Cannabis Access and Pricing

Virginia’s Second Medical Cannabis Processor is Open to Patients

Green Leaf Medical has opened to the state's registered medical cannabis patients.

December 1, 2020

Interviews & Opinion

Virginia Medical Cannabis Coalition Hopes State Builds on Existing Medical Program to Launch Adult-Use Market: Legalization Watch

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam plans to introduce a legalization bill in January, following the release of a study on the potential impacts of legalization in the state.

November 30, 2020

Finance

Liberty Health Sciences Reaches Agreement to Settle Class Action Suit

The $1.8 million US settlement, which will require court approval, aims to close the book on a class-action suit that alleges Liberty and Aphria participated in a scheme to benefit “insiders” at both companies.

November 20, 2020

Legislation and Regulation

Caliva Provides Career Training and Mentorship with Partners Chrysalis, Success Centers

The vertically integrated company is first focusing its resources in this area on aiding people released from prison, then it plans to additionally serve people without shelter and with low incomes.

November 19, 2020

Finance

The Interview: Catching Up with Christopher Melillo, Ascend Wellness Holdings’ New Chief Revenue Officer

In this exclusive conversation with Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary, Melillo discusses his move from multi-state operator Curaleaf, his goals for Ascend, how an adult-use market in New Jersey would shift the cannabis landscape, and more.

October 30, 2020

The Starting Line

Sticky Bush Farms Awarded Michigan’s First Cannabis Microbusiness License: The Starting Line

The company is preparing to transition from the state’s caregiver market to adult-use sales with the vertically integrated license meant for craft operators.

September 29, 2020

Massachusetts

Need to Know: Mass CultivatED Educates, Trains Bay Staters Impacted by Prohibition

The public-private partnership will offer cannabis classes, internships and other programming to people who have been negatively affected by the War on Drugs or live in disproportionately impacted areas.

August 28, 2020

Interviews & Opinion

The Pass Brings Cannabis to the Berkshires with Adult-Use Dispensary Launch: The Starting Line

Co-Founder and President Michael Cohen shares insight into the vertically integrated company’s launch into Massachusetts’ adult-use market and the opening of its first dispensary in the Berkshires.

July 17, 2020