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ScottsMiracle-Gro Launches Cannabis Investment Entity with Huge Down Payment

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Further, The Hawthorne Collective will provide a $150 million convertible loan to Toronto, Ontario-based RIV Capital in Canada ( TSX: RIV ) (OTC: CNPOF), a cannabis investment and acquisition firm currently listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. “The ScottsMiracle-Gro History. Long before cannabis was outlawed in the U.S.,

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Alaska’s Gov. Mike Dunleavy Issues Executive Order Establishing the Governor’s Advisory Task Force on Recreational Marijuana

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That is three times the amount the state collected in 2018. “In The initiative imposed a $50 per ounce excise tax on the sale of marijuana from warehouses to retailers and took effect in February 2015. The state charges a $50 per ounce excise tax on marijuana sales from warehouses to retailer.

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The Status of Cannabis Legalization in the South

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Although there is no excise tax on medical cannabis, there is a medical cannabis special privilege tax of 4% of the gross receipts or gross proceeds derived from the sale of usable cannabis to be collected by cultivation facilities, dispensaries, or other cannabis businesses and remitted to the Department of Finance and Administration.

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California: Department of Cannabis Control Names Leadership Team

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Collectively, these dedicated public servants bring extensive experience from the state and local level to the leadership team. District Court, Northern District of California from 2015 to 2016, Law Clerk for the Honorable Michelle T. Lee served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Vince Chhabria at the U.S. Friedland at the U.S.

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Media Report Says Virginia Commercial Hemp Growers “face regulatory uncertainty”

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Plenty of farmers added hemp to their existing farms, while other entrepreneurs with little experience in agriculture also crowded into the market. . At the same time, the United States Department of Agriculture is still figuring out how to regulate hemp growers. THC standard since it first adopted regulations for hemp growers in 2015.

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Careers in marijuana catch on at colleges

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I advise a lot of students in a lot of majors and they’re all like, this is going to be cool,” said Antonio DiTommaso, program director for agricultural sciences at Cornell. “I Interest in working with plants has made agriculture one of the fastest-growing degrees on U.S.

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Fertilizing and amending soil on outdoor marijuana and hemp farms

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While conventional macro- and micronutrients commonly used in commercial agriculture work well for cannabis, growers who want to incorporate sustainable practices might consider adopting no-till practices and planting cover crops to build up the soil’s microbiology, which can ultimately reduce inputs while saving money.

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