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Cannabis Insider Live will hold its New England virtual event on Wednesday, Jan. 26, with industry leaders and experts set to discuss the Massachusetts cannabis business, research into consumers’ evolving behavior and choices, and breaking down systemic and discriminatory policy barriers to help a billion-dollar industry be more equitable. Nikki Fried, Florida’s commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services and an advocate who’s pressed the Biden administration to modernize cannabis policy, will be the event’s keynote speaker. In a letter to the White House last year, Fried highlighted how marijuana policy has led to discrimination of people of color, and she…

Journalists will go behind the scenes of the year’s biggest news stories later this month during the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government sixth annual panel, which will be held virtually over Zoom. A panel of the state’s top journalists will share the stories of how they broke the biggest headlines last year, from the legalization of marijuana, the COVID-19 pandemic, juvenile justice and alleged nepotism in state employment. The event, “The Stories Behind the Biggest Stories of 2021,” will be moderated by NBC Connecticut reporter and host of “Connecticut in Color,” Leslie Mayers. The free panel will be held via…

On January 6, workers at a medical cannabis company in St. Louis, Missouri, filed a petition for what would reportedly be the state’s first cannabis union election. They’re poised to join a growing unionized cannabis workforce across the country.  Missouri passed medical marijuana legislation back in 2018. On January 6 this year, six employees of the company Swade Cannabis, which operates multiple dispensaries around St. Louis, submitted an election petition to company management and to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The proposed bargaining unit would be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655. The UFCW…

Marijuana legalization through state legislatures heated up in 2021, and that trend likely will continue this year as lawmakers in several states are expected to legalize either recreational or medical cannabis. The Northeast and mid-Atlantic states are in the spotlight for adult-use marijuana legislative activity, with Rhode Island the top candidate to approve a regulated commercial market, according to industry experts. ADVERTISEMENT Maryland lawmakers are expected to refer an adult-use legalization initiative to voters. Medical marijuana legalization is expected in Mississippi, where the state’s high court nixed a voter-approved referendum last May. Lawmakers in North and South Carolina also have…

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Best Cannabis Stocks In Q1 2022 Are you looking for top marijuana stocks to buy for 2022? To start the new year the best cannabis stocks to invest in have already begun to see significant market volatility. In 2021 most of the cannabis sector saw substantial declines as the year progressed. This is mostly related to the delays with achieving federal marijuana legalization and reform in the US. In 2021 many leading MSOs delivered strong earnings throughout the year. Unfortunately, this did not translate into gains in the market. Instead, most of the cannabis sector only traded on the possibility…