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Several CEOs of Canadian cannabis companies made the list of Canada’s top 100 highest-paid executives in 2019 across all industries.

In the company’s first move into the Florida marketplace, Cresco Labs is set to acquire Bluma Wellness Inc. in an all-share deal that values Bluma at $213 million.

After more than a year of campaigning, we can be pretty sure where President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris stand on the cannabis issue — but what about other members of the incoming Biden Administration?

Medical cannabis industry workers in Maryland will be eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine under a recent Medical Cannabis Commission directive.

A recent study found that adult-use cannabis legalization may lead to increased junk food sales.

Ilinois state senators have advanced a measure aimed at improving the state’s social equity cannabis licensing process.

The hacker behind a Christmas Day intrusion into the Microsoft Cloud software of Aurora Cannabis appears to be trying to sell the company’s data on an online marketplace.

Mexico health officials have published rules for the country’s medical cannabis industry and President Andres Manuel López Obrador approved regulations letting pharmaceutical companies conduct medical cannabis research.

Andy Cox, who was convicted in 2005 and sentenced to life for cultivating cannabis, has been set free after spending 13 years in prison.

New Jersey’s cannabis deal appears to have fallen flat after lawmakers pulled a piece of compromise legislation that was requested by Gov. Phil Murphy before signing into law the state’s legalization plan.

Adult-use cannabis sales in Michigan increased by 482% in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic and sales having not yet launched in Detroit, the state’s largest city.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has once again stated the state will legalize cannabis in the coming legislative session.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem issued an executive order on Friday contending that the cannabis legalization initiative passed by voters in November violated the state’s constitution.

North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Afron Jones has called for giving drug-dependent inmates cannabis to determine whether it might reduce overdose deaths and violence.

Amsterdam’s Mayor Femke Halsema has officially introduced her plan to ban cannabis sales to tourists and foreigners in the city.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced during his State of the State address on Wednesday that he will work to legalize cannabis during the 2021 legislative session.

A Nebraska state senator has proposed a measure that would let voters decide whether or not to legalize cannabis via a constitutional amendment in 2022.

Anticipating accelerated cannabis reforms around the country, Curaleaf Holdings yesterday announced an offering of 16.5 million subordinate voting shares at C$16.70 per share.

Following narrow victories by Georgia’s two Democratic candidates for the Senate during this week’s runoff election, Democrats are expected to take control of the U.S. Senate in 2021, opening up the MORE Act and other federal cannabis bills to a vote.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has renewed his call for legalizing cannabis in the state and announced a proposal for creating an Office of Cannabis Management.

Montana lawmakers have rejected a $1.35 million budget proposal for implementing the state’s voter-approved adult-use cannabis industry; the move could spell delays for the program’s implementation.

The State Bar of South Dakota said in its latest newsletter that attorneys in the state are not allowed to provide legal services to cannabis industry clients.

Heeding the requests of Gov. Phil Murphy — who said he would not sign the state’s legalization law without it — lawmakers in New Jersey have introduced a bill containing penalties for underage cannabis possession.

Veterinarians in Michigan are now allowed to discuss the use of cannabis and industrial hemp products with clients under a bill that was signed into law last week.