The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to put a sales tax increase and two measures regarding marijuana dispensaries before voters in unincorporated Kern County this November. The first measure will ask voters to raise the sales tax rate by 1 percent in the unincorporated county areas, from 7.25 percent... Read more
This article originally appeared in the July 2018 issue of Cannabis Business Times. To subscribe, click here. Cannabis crops growing under naturally irrigated and fertile conditions thrive in direct sunshine as they have for millennia. The selective pressures of marijuana prohibition increasingly forced illicit growers to look for closets, attics, basements and... Read more
This article originally appeared in the July 2018 issue of Cannabis Business Times. To subscribe, click here. Cannabis crops growing under naturally irrigated and fertile conditions thrive in direct sunshine as they have for millennia. The selective pressures of marijuana prohibition increasingly forced illicit growers to look for closets, attics, basements and... Read more
Coming soon to WSLCB. We recently wrote about the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board’s consideration of a marijuana licensee amnesty program for licensees with undisclosed true parties of interest a couple of weeks ago. In that post, though we criticized the WSLCB for not doing more to put marijuana... Read more
Colorado cannabis cultivators will have to pass mandatory pesticide testing starting Aug. 1 in order to bring their flower to market, which may be a new process to many growers. “It has not been a mandatory test,” Ryan Randolph, lab director for AgriScience Labs’ Western Slope location, told Cannabis... Read more
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BlissCo Cannabis Corp. (CSE:BLIS) (FRA:GQ4B), (“BlissCo”) or the (“Company”) is pleased to announce that it has completed a Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Gap Assessment. This Gap Assessment brings BlissCo one step closer to earning its Eudralex GMP certification that will allow the... Read more
KITCHENER, Ontario, July 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — James E. Wagner Cultivation Corporation (“JWC” or the “Corporation”) (TSX VENTURE:JWCA), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Conestoga College dated July 23, 2018 (the “Agreement”). This Agreement marks the beginning of a much-anticipated research... Read more
Terra Tech Corp. (TRTC) (“Terra Tech” or the “Company”), a vertically integrated cannabis-focused agriculture company, is pleased to announce that it has secured a 25% ownership stake in The Healing Tree Collective, Inc., a cannabis dispensary operator based in California. On July 23, 2018, The Healing Tree Collective was... Read more
We’ve Seen This BeforeUnless you’re brand new to the “team”, we’ve seen this all too many times before. GT Biopharma has seen some of the strongest breakout potential on a reoccurring basis than almost all of our other featured companies. Over the last 7 months, GTBP has seen 4... Read more
Unless you’re brand new to the “team”, we’ve seen this all too many times before. GT Biopharma has seen some of the strongest breakout potential on a reoccurring basis than almost all of our other featured companies. Over the last 7 months, GTBP has seen 4 clear breakouts and... Read more