Aurora Cannabis Announces CEO Retirement and Succession, Board of Directors Expansion, and Business Transformation Plan Releases Preliminary Results for the Second Fiscal Quarter Ended December 31, 2019 Aurora Cannabis Founder & CEO, Terry Booth, announces retirement and succession plan and expansion of the Board of Directors Executive Chairman Michael... Read more
Acreage Announces Comprehensive Financing Transactions NEW YORK, Feb. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Acreage Holdings, Inc. (“Acreage” or “Company”) (CSE: ACRG.U) (OTCQX: ACRGF) (FSE: 0VZ), one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis operators in the U.S., today announced it entered into agreements in respect of the following financing transactions... Read more
A governor-backed marijuana legalization bill was introduced by Connecticut’s top lawmakers on Thursday. The “Governor’s Bill,” filed by Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney (D) and House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz (D), would allow adults 21 and older to possess and purchase up to one and a half ounces of... Read more
A governor-backed marijuana legalization bill was introduced by Connecticut’s top lawmakers on Thursday. The “Governor’s Bill,” filed by Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney (D) and House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz (D), would allow adults 21 and older to possess and purchase up to one and a half ounces of... Read more
A governor-backed marijuana legalization bill was introduced by Connecticut’s top lawmakers on Thursday. The “Governor’s Bill,” filed by Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney (D) and House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz (D), would allow adults 21 and older to possess and purchase up to one and a half ounces of... Read more
A proposal to legalize marijuana in Connecticut went up in smoke last year, but legislative advocates—including the state’s governor—are ready to give it another go. In his state of the state address Wednesday, Gov. Ned Lamont said that ending the prohibition on pot represents “an opportunity to right the... Read more
Dirt flew through the air in front of the country’s Senate building in Mexico City. On Sunday, cannabis activists set up camp in full view of their elected officials to remind them of their responsibility to legalize the drug — and they brought their plants along with them. Mexican marijuana... Read more
Residents of the nation’s capital could have the chance to decriminalize magic mushrooms if a proposed initiative makes its way to November’s ballot. On Wednesday, the Washington, D.C. Board of Elections decided that the proposal, the Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020, could be placed on the... Read more
(Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series on California’s hemp industry. To read the previous installment, click here.) Hemp entrepreneurs in California are optimistic that long-awaited state legislation to legalize hemp-derived CBD as an ingredient in food, beverages and cosmetics will be revived from suspension and ready... Read more
