LOS ALAMOS, NM, July 30, 2019 / – PRESS RELEASE – Trait Biosciences Inc., a biotechnology company in the cannabis industry, has announced that it has generated the first engineered hemp plants with a value-added trait. The company has successfully developed hemp plants that are producing four times the... Read more

VANCOUVER, July 30, 2019 /CNW/ – PRESS RELEASE – Choom, an emerging adult-use cannabis company that has secured one of the largest retail networks in Canada, has announced the appointment of Corey Gillon as president, effective Aug. 26, 2019. Gillon joins the company as a seasoned global retail executive... Read more

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As market consolidation continues across the cannabis industry and larger companies enter the space, Compassionate Cultivation, a vertically integrated medical cannabis company in Texas, has placed a focus on in-house breeding to better serve its patients and differentiate itself from the competition. In mid-July, the company introduced Brazos, its... Read more

As market consolidation continues across the cannabis industry and larger companies enter the space, Compassionate Cultivation, a vertically integrated medical cannabis company in Texas, has placed a focus on in-house breeding to better serve its patients and differentiate itself from the competition. In mid-July, the company introduced Brazos, its... Read more

Patent litigation has long been a battlefront for technology-focused companies, but it has begun its expansion into the cannabis field. Last summer, in the first case of its kind, United Cannabis Corporation (“UCANN”) sued Pure Hemp Collective Inc., for patent infringement. UCANN, a publicly-traded biotechnology company headquartered in Golden,... Read more

Johnstown, OH (July 17, 2019) PRESS RELEASE – Apeks Supercritical, one of the world’s largest CO2 extraction system manufacturers serving the cannabis industry, is putting its 600th CO2 extraction system into service for Southern Extraction Laboratories LLC, a new CBD and hemp production company in North Carolina. The delivery of... Read more

LEAMINGTON, ON, July 29, 2019 /CNW/ – PRESS RELEASE – Aphria Inc.has announced that its subsidiary Marigold Projects Jamaica Limited has received a retail Herb House license from Jamaica’s Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) to open its first store in Kingston, Jamaica. Sensi Medical Cannabis House will be located at... Read more

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — PRESS RELEASE — Grenco Science, a cannabis vaporization technology company that has been in operation for eight years, recently completed its Series A financing. Investors in the financing round included Serruya Private Equity and Stable Road Capital. Grenco Science plans to deploy... Read more

Washington, D.C. –  PRESS RELEASE – Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) and Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) have introduced H.R. 4074, the Clarifying Law Around Insurance Marijuana (CLAIM) Act, which would help businesses operating in the rapidly growing cannabis sector to obtain insurance products.  “Due to discrepancies in federal and state... Read more