Under a Cloud, $5.7-Mln Merrill Kentucky Broker Signs with Sanctuary – AdvisorHub
December 9, 2021 Share This A top-ranked Merrill Lynch broker in Louisville, Kentucky, who was sidelined last week amid a firm review of his outside activities has found a new home at independent broker-dealer Sanctuary Wealth. Charles Thomas “Todd” Mercer Jr., a 27-year industry veteran who had led an eight-person team at Merrill, registered with Sanctuary Wealth, an indie firm founded three years ago by former Merrill managers, on Wednesday. “I’ve known Todd for nearly a decade, from the time I was his hiring manager at Merrill Lynch,” Sanctuary CEO Jim Dickson said in a statement. “Todd is an outstanding…
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New Jersey: Regulators Approve Provisional Licenses for 30 New Medical Marijuana Dispensaries – Norml
After months of delay, state regulators on Tuesday provided provisional licenses to 30 applicants seeking to operate medical cannabis facilities. Currently, only 23 medical cannabis facilities are operational in the state. That low total has led high prices and low supplies for the state’s estimated 120,000 registered medical cannabis patients. Under the state’s medical marijuana law, patients are not permitted to home-cultivate cannabis. Those issued provisional licensure will still need pass a series of background checks as well as site approval prior to opening their businesses. State lawmakers earlier this year approved legislation legalizing the adult-use marijuana market. Under the…
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Missouri Police Couldn’t Use Marijuana Odor To Justify Searches Under New Bill – Marijuana Moment
A top Rhode Island lawmaker on Thursday said that a bill to legalize marijuana in the Ocean State is nearly finalized, with just one major provision left to resolve following months of negotiations—and that he expects the issue to be resolved early in the new year. House Speaker Joe Shekarchi (D) told WPRI-TV that while legislators are “still not there” on a final product, he’s “happy to report that we’ve worked down to almost one issue that’s left, but it’s not there yet.” That issue relates to who should regulate the cannabis market—a new independent commission or the state Department…
Read More »Medical and Recreational Users Alike Loved This Strain in 2021
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The cannabis information platform Leafly Holdings, Inc. revealed Wednesday that Dosidos has been chosen as the Leafly 2021 Strain of the Year. Each year the company chooses a cannabis strain that makes the most market impact among 5,000 strains in the company’s database. Leafly, which boasts more than 125 million visitors per year, chooses the annual strain based on a combination of data including search trends, online traffic and menu availability, as well as expert and editorial analyses across the cannabis industry from breeders, cultivators, and retailers. RELATED: Why Strain Names Are Absolutely Meaningless Dosidos highlights Dosidos emerged as the Leafly 2021 Strain of the Year thanks to its notable trajectory, which…
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Webb City woman facing felony marijuana charge – Yahoo News
Dec. 9—Joplin police arrested a Webb City woman on a felony drug charge Monday after allegedly finding two bags containing 411.5 grams of marijuana and a loaded syringe during a search of the vehicle she was driving. Capt. William Davis of the Joplin Police Department said an officer stopped the vehicle at 12:23 a.m. Monday in the 2200 block of South Connecticut Avenue for having expired plates. The driver, Amanda D. Long, 30, was arrested when the officer learned she had an outstanding warrant issued in Newton County for possession of a controlled substance. A search of a backpack in…
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Cannabis dispensaries drive employment, study finds (Newsletter: December 9, 2021) – Marijuana Moment
OH GOP legalization bill; IN medical marijuana legislation planned; MO cannabis initiatives flawed, former prisoner says Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. If you value Marijuana Moment, invest in our success…
Read More »Michael Nesmith, Singer and Guitarist of The Monkees, Dies at 78 – The Daily Beast
Michael Nesmith, the singer, guitarist, and one of the final surviving members of The Monkees, died of natural causes Friday, his family told Rolling Stone. He was 78. “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said in a statement. “We ask that you respect our privacy at this time and we thank you for the love and light that all of you have shown him and us.” Nesmith, a music video pioneer who won the first Grammy for video, stayed with…
Read More »Rioter Bizarrely Claims Yale Secret Society Pushed Him to Storm the Capitol – The Daily Beast
One rioter has a novel reason for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6: a Yale University secret society made him do it. Allen Hostetter, an alleged member of the “Three Percenters,” told a federal court Monday that the Yale secret society “Skull and Bones” works for the government and ordered him to raid the building that day. According to Hostetter, the group worked in tandem with the government and secret Christian denominations to entice him to join the raid, resulting in him “literally being walked up the steps of the U.S. Capitol led by said agents or operatives” in a…
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