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California: Department of Cannabis Control Names Leadership Team

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Compliance Division – Richard Parrott. Collectively, these dedicated public servants bring extensive experience from the state and local level to the leadership team. Compliance Division – Richard Parrott. Chief Deputy Director – Rasha Salama. General Counsel – Matthew Lee. Administration Division – Melissa Eidson.

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Harborside Inc. Announces Increased Interest in Haight-Ashbury Dispensary

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Founded in California in 2006, Harborside was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States. Additional information regarding Harborside is available under Harborside’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.

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Article – Faegre Baker Daniels: Key Considerations for U.K. Investment in the Legal Cannabis Industry Abroad

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investment community as to the boundaries of legal risk and compliance. the sale of shares or assets and collection of dividends outside the U.K. There is very little guidance for U.K. businesses with regards to cannabis-related activity and significant discrepancy in opinion within the U.K. On 18 June 2019, the U.K. Source: [link].

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Harborside Announces Business Combination with Urbn Leaf and Loudpack Creating StateHouse Holdings, a Leading California Cannabis Company

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The directors and officers and certain shareholders of Urbn Leaf, collectively holding approximately 69% of Series A shares and 96% of common shares, have entered into voting and support agreements to vote in favour of the Urbn Leaf Transaction. The Urbn Leaf Transaction has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of Urbn Leaf.

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New Study Says. Not One California Dispensary Caught Selling to Minors

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A report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017) concluded that there is “substantial evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and increased risk of motor vehicle crashes” (p 9–11) based upon systematic reviews of the evidence (Asbridge et al., 2006, Freisthler et al., Discussion.

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Finnish Cannabis Association Collecting Signatures To Get Referendum On Cannabis Legalization

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“ The referendum must collect 50,000 signatures for the project to be debated in Parliament, and collected half of it at the time of writing. The prescription rates fell in 2018 to 269 prescriptions, partly due to governmental authorities adopting a strict approach to the regulation of cannabis as medicine.

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

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The DEA has made previous requests–in 2001 and 2006–to the FDA for an evaluation of marijuana. Trafficking in cannabis in compliance with state law will no longer constitute a predicate act to establish violations of other federal criminal laws under the CSA, in particular financial crimes such as money laundering laws.

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