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Executive Spotlight: Dan Roda

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Dan Roda is co-founder and CEO of Abaca, a digital financial platform connecting cannabis businesses with bank accounts, payment processing, lending, and more. While we don’t cultivate, process, or dispense it directly ourselves, we take pride in our role in improving the daily lives of those who do work with the plant directly.

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National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Critcizes Congress On Their Tardiness On Reforming Cannabis Laws.”The bottom line is this: Legalization in some form is going to happen, and the abdication of responsibility to address these issues in Washington is simply ludicrous.”

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Top Federal Financial Regulator Slams Congress Over Marijuana Inaction And Calls For Interagency Banking Workgroup. Hood Remarks at the PBC Conference 2021: Payments, Banking, Compliance in the Cannabis Industry. Here’s his full presentation. September 2021. NCUA Board Member Rodney E. Board Member Rodney E.

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New Hemp Testing Guidelines Make Meeting 0.3% THC Limit Difficult

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While several lawmakers and industry stakeholders celebrated the announcement , not everyone on the cultivation side is so positive. The language in the 2014 Farm Bill classified hemp as cannabis with less than 0.3% Last week the USDA issued its much-anticipated interim final rule for hemp manufacturing. New Sampling Guidelines.

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FCPA Blog Article: Legitimate cannabis investors face massive tax and legal headaches

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In 2014 he was the recipient of the ACFE’s highest honor: the Cressey Award for life-time achievement in the detection and deterrence of fraud. federal and the UK’s national banking systems. Cannabis cultivators and retail sellers have to pay their employees and rent in cash. This is a public safety hazard.

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Prohibitionists want THC-limit laws. Here’s why patients and consumers are fighting back

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Public safety at issue. Proponents of these THC caps—who are often the same politicians who stood against legalization and lost—contend that limiting THC levels will increase public safety. Such a cap would render the SAFE Banking Act all but useless, as most cannabis products contain far more than 2% THC. . In 2019, Sen.

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Report: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City -“Is the Colorado Marijuana Industry Showing Signs of Maturation?”

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Colorado, which opened recreational stores in January 2014, has the longest-running legalized marijuana market in the United States. Starting in 2020, farmers in states that have received USDA approval will be allowed to grow industrial hemp for production purposes as long as the final hemp cultivation contains less than 0.3

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Cannacurio Podcast Episode 21 with Mark Diener of JULABO

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And then, as those western states matured a little bit and then some events started happening for exhibits and the like, we sent a couple of people to scope it out back in around 2014 and 2015. Is it cost savings, increased sales, less waste, safety, all the above? ‍ Mark Diener : Yeah, that’s a good point, Ed.