Cannabis industry professionals from around the world will focus on the evolving market for legal marijuana when CanEx Jamaica Business Conference and Expo 2019 comes ashore at Montego Bay on September 26 through 28. Billed as the premier business-to-business conference in Latin America and the Caribbean, CanEx Jamaica brings... Read more
Aurora Cannabis Closes Expanded C$360 Million (US$280 Million) Credit Facility EDMONTON, Sept. 9, 2019 /CNW/ – Aurora Cannabis Inc. (“Aurora or the “Company”) (NYSE | TSX: ACB), the Canadian company defining the future of cannabis worldwide, is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced amended and... Read more
MedMen Announces Expiration of HSR Waiting Period for Proposed Acquisition of PharmaCann Expiration of HSR waiting period moves the transaction one step closer to completion Combined company would be licensed for 92 retail stores, of which 38 are operational today, across 12 states Transaction is expected to be complete... Read more
Tilray, Inc. and Privateer Holdings, Inc. Sign Definitive Agreement to Extend Lock-up and Provide for Orderly Distribution of 75 Million Tilray Shares Held by Privateer 77 Percent of Tilray’s Total Shares Outstanding to be Released Over Extended Two-Year Lock-up Transaction to be Non-Dilutive for Tilray and Expected to be... Read more
Medicine Man Technologies to Acquire an Additional Four Dispensaries from an Established Retailer – Largest Transaction in Company History – This group of four dispensaries is expected to have EBITDA margins of 35% in 2019 and will be among the most profitable retail locations in the Company’s portfolio, upon... Read more
South Africa’s history of State-sponsored segregation has taught cannabis activists there to avoid the pitfalls of botanical segregation and embrace the eons-old history of use by indigenous people. While countries around the globe struggle to re-regulate, commodify and capitalize on the plant’s resurgent legitimacy, South Africa could be poised... Read more
Amid growing concerns about e-cigarette devices, a second death in America has been linked to vaping. The death occurred in Oregon in July, the apparent result of a severe lung disease that health officials believe was caused by the use of a vaping device that contained marijuana. The victim’s... Read more
A federal judge has ruled that an Oregon vineyard has established the legal authority to sue a neighboring cannabis growing operation. In the ruling, U.S. Senior District Judge Anna Brown found that Momzati Vineyard’s allegation that the proximity of the marijuana cultivation business had caused a “concrete financial loss”... Read more
Mississippi voters may have the opportunity to decide next year whether or not patients in the state can seek medical cannabis. The advocacy group Mississippians for Compassionate Care on Wednesday submitted a petition to the secretary of state’s office to place an initiative on the 2020 ballot to legalize... Read more
One of the United States’ most respected medical institutions has announced that it will be sinking its teeth into the field of psychedelics research. Johns Hopkins University will form the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, funded by $17 million in donations from private sources. It may well be... Read more
