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Cannabis Bankruptcies Start to Roll in as Pandemic Halts Financing
The weakest companies are succumbing and even relatively healthy firms are showing signs of strain. The cannabis bankruptcy filings are starting to roll in. Already plagued by a tough regulatory environment, disappointing sales and capital…
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Cannabis, Bar Industries Eligible for $40B Government Bank Credit Program
Devastated bars and lounges as well as the country’s hard-hit cannabis sector will have access to $40 billion in new credit being made available via the government’s business bank during the COVID-19 crisis, its CEO said on Sunday. In an…
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Stoners Cheered When Canada Legalised Cannabis. How Did It Go So Wrong?
Growers have gone bust, and the black market is still thriving. The lights shone more brightly than anything I’d ever seen. One million blinding watts strafed across the leaves of countless cannabis plants that peeled off in neat rows in…
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Kelis Announces New Cannabis Cooking Show on Netflix
Producers say 'Cooked with Cannabis' is a series that teaches viewers that 'weed is a seasoning' not just a drug. elis, the “Milkshake” singer, and ex-wife of rapper Nas, has a new cannabis cooking show on Netflix that is guaranteed to…
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Safe Cannabis Use in the Age of the Coronavirus
In recent weeks, COVID-19 has fueled nationwide panic-buying, forcing Americans to figure out what’s essential to them. Items like toilet paper and disinfecting wipes have inadvertently become extremely valuable (and potentially our new…
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Cannabis Stores in Ontario No Longer Deemed Essential, Will Close This Weekend
Cannabis stores across Ontario will have to close as of Saturday night after the provincial government removed them from their list of essential businesses. Many non-essential businesses in the province have been closed under government…
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800 Fired From Pot Jobs in Malls, and Other Cannabis Stories You May Have Missed
The spread of COVID-19 has seen typically stable sectors of the economy rival the chaos of the nascent cannabis industry. True to their reputation, these past few weeks have not been smooth sailing for pot companies. Here’s a look at some…
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Why Legal Pot Was Taking a Hit in Canada, Weeks Before COVID-19 Sent Markets Plunging
The gains cannabis companies were banking on in the lead-up to legalization of recreational sales in October 2018 have not materialized. So, what went sideways? In February, weeks before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and the stock market…
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Cannabis Cares Shows a Different Side of Cannabis
Cannabis Cares is a movement started to show the world a different side of cannabis, the successful side, the active side, the side that cares about people of cannabis, not just the plant. For ages cannabis has been seen as a villain in the…
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Cannabis Scientists are Chasing the Perfect High
Chemists at some of the biggest legal-weed companies are after an elusive prize; a predictable, reliable product. The retail showroom of INSA, a farm-to-bong cannabis company in western Massachusetts, is a clean industrial space on the…
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