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RENFREW – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Eastern Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) has made a large illicit drug seizure in Renfrew. Three people from Scarborough have been arrested and charged in connection with the seizure.

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On Thursday, May 5, members of the Street Crime Unit, Organized Crime Unit, Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit, Provincial Joint Cannabis Enforcement Team, the Contraband Tobacco Enforcement Team and the Emergency Response Team, assisted by officers from the Ontario Provincial Police Renfrew Detachment, executed a search warrant at a property located on the Highway 132 in Adamston/Bromley Township. Three people were arrested there.

Police seized over 7,600 cannabis marihuana plants and approximately 200 grams of dried cannabis marihuana, along with Canadian currency and other property related to this investigation.

Wei Lin, 39, Xing Xiao, 60, and Junjie Xue, 59, all of Scarborough, were each charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, growing, propagating or harvesting over four plants at a time in a dwelling. home, and from cultivating, propagating or harvesting any Cannabis plant in any place other than their dwelling place.

Each of the accused was released on a promise to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Renfrew on July 6, 2022.

A Richmond realtor is trying to position themselves as a go-to resource for the burgeoning home-grown marijuana scene.

Eric Morehouse of real estate company The Morehouse Group has launched The Key RVA, offering advice and assistance, planting and growing kits to people who want to grow marijuana at home in light of the new laws of the country. ‘State.

The company’s service area consists of Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield. He has three entrepreneurs who visit clients at their homes to provide services.

The Key charges $ 115 for home visits during which contractors can service, harvest, dry and process client’s marijuana. The company also sells indoor grow kits starting at $ 500 and offers plant care when customers are away from home.

Morehouse said he has about a dozen regular customers who use plant care and growth support services. Morehouse is the only full employee of the home business, which currently serves as a side gig. He runs The Morehouse Group with his wife Colleen.

The Key also operates an online store through Amazon where people can purchase pots, soil, and other growing accessories, and he pockets a fee for referrals. Morehouse said he plans to have local retailers featured on The Key’s website.

Morehouse said that while he knows a thing or two about growing marijuana, his personal contributions to the business are focused on management, sales and marketing.

He said he designed The Key after meeting people who were interested in growing marijuana at home, but were unsure how to go about it.

“As I was touring through these cannabis-friendly events, I found myself surrounded by (people who were) mostly 55 and over, and more women than men, wondering how to start,†he said. -he declares. “I was like, ‘Wow, there is already a need for people to get questions answered.’ “

The personal use and personal cultivation of marijuana was legalized for adults in July. By law, individuals are allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants per household for their own use.

The new law has spawned other new businesses in town, including cannabis growing supplier Happy Trees Agricultural Supplies, which recently moved into a new warehouse in Northside.

In other recent cannabis movements, local medical cannabis supplier Green Leaf Medical has started selling marijuana buds and joints for smoking.

Former jazz drummer and fish industry worker Richard Goldfrap, whom Gardai describes as a “nice man”, was arrested with 40 cannabis plants he was growing for his personal use at his home in the remote area of Kilcoe near Roaringwater Bay near Skibbereen in West Cork on June 11 last year.

Judge Helen Boyle this week handed him a three-year suspended sentence at Cork Circuit Court, but warned him he could face a custodial sentence if arrested again because he was of his second conviction for such an offence.

Mr Goldfrap told The Sunday World this week that criminalizing cannabis users is a complete waste of state resources.

“It’s a ridiculous waste of state money and for what? It won’t stop me from smoking.

“My lawyer sent me a letter saying please don’t start growing it again because you could be in big trouble, even though I have big health issues and am 73.”

He said that although he had smoked weed most of his life in recent years, he used it for pain relief.

“I took it mainly for the pain. I have a lot of health issues and a lot of pharmaceutical drugs don’t handle them very well and there are a lot of side effects, but with marijuana the side effect is you get a good high.

“There’s no difference between a guy having a few pints of Guinness after work. It’s a crazy law.

A growing number of countries around the world have legalized or decriminalized cannabis for personal use, and German lawmakers recently unveiled plans to decriminalize possession of up to 30 grams of cannabis and allow the substance to be sold to adults for medical purposes. recreational activities in a controlled market.

“I think Ireland should catch up,” Mr Goldfrap said.

“For me the heart of it all is that they are criminalizing young people and they are being forced into the hands of the dealers because it’s illegal then they go to the black market and if the dealer doesn’t have that they want, they go away.” them something else.

“If they legalize it, they can do what they do in America, which is tax it. They can use that tax to build hospitals, roads, infrastructure, and they can monitor its purity. .

He said he doesn’t approve of high-strength marijuana which is specifically bred to have high levels of THC, but sees nothing wrong with low-strength strains.

If he wants to smoke cannabis now, he will have to buy it rather than grow his own.

“I’m just going to mark it on the black market. I know people who grow it and they don’t genetically modify it and make a naturally growing plant and it’s a very good success to put it into common parlance. Skunk is a horrible thing. Even people of my generation say to stay away.

When he appeared in court this week, Garda Detective Andrew Manning described Mr Goldfrap as a ‘pleasant man to deal with’ who co-operated fully with the investigation.

The feeling was mutual.

“The guard who stopped me, Andrew, was very nice. He said I didn’t bother him at all.

“Funny enough, people of my generation who smoke are nice people. We don’t bother people; we don’t get angry and start fighting people.

“I have no animosity towards the gardai. They are employed to do a job that they do and they have to pay their mortgage and raise their children like everyone else.

Originally from the UK, Mr Goldfrap, who had ancestors from Carlow, came to Ireland in 1997 after being made redundant from a job in the fishing industry in Cornwall.

“I came in an RV and drove around and ended up here [in west Cork]. I thought the river was beautiful and it is close to the sea. I came from Cornwall and I like to be close to the sea.”

He bought land in Kilcoe in 1999 and has lived there ever since.

He said that aside from his cannabis plants, the only other time he got in trouble with the law was when he was arrested protesting the Vietnam War in the early 1970s.

“It was the only time I was put against the wall,” he said, adding that he hadn’t even been sentenced for it.

“I’m just a normal person.”

“Actually, I have an art degree, but I make a living out of it. [is hard].

“I think there’s a lot of rebels in us art students.”

He said he used to play drums in a band when he was younger.

“I was more into jazz than rock and roll. I can’t read music, so I didn’t get very far, but it was fantastic. I used to have regular concerts on Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon as a trio.

Her sister Alison has had more success in the music industry and is the lead singer of multi-platinum band Goldfrapp – adding ap to the end of their name for effect.

Mr Goldfrap said he was unsure how he came across Gardai’s radar. He didn’t sell cannabis and grew it naturally rather than using special lighting, tents, or hydroponics that might attract attention.

He had suspicions about two people who once wandered onto his land saying they had gotten lost while he was repotting his cannabis plants.

“Something about them didn’t ring true. One of them was a lady who kept her head down all the time. I was actually potting them up on an open table when they came to my yard saying they were lost. I said “Well, you can walk by my house and walk out that way”, which they did, but I think they shouted or whatever.

He also said it could have been someone else. “It could have been, but you just don’t know.”

He said he had no idea what the plants were worth

“It was ridiculous. I don’t know [how much it was worth] I had 40 very young plants and they seemed to value their value a lot. Apparently, an adult plant is worth so much money. it’s crazy.”

He said cannabis grown using specialized equipment can be lucrative.

“They can charge a lot of money and make a fortune. They can grow a crop that ripens after three months. It has been tweaked and tweaked to have as much THC as possible, which is driving people crazy.

“That’s why they care a lot about what it’s worth if you sell it. Said I don’t know what it’s worth, I don’t sell this fucking stuff. Why would I grow it for myself and sell it, because then I would have to restock it on the black market. »

He said legalization would lead to better controls around drugs.

“If they legalize it, they can control the quality and the strength.”

“The money it costs the police could be used for much more useful purposes.”

Possession of cannabis is currently illegal in Ireland, except for those with a Minister’s license to use cannabis products for medical purposes.

However, since late 2020 gardai have been allowed to deal with simple cases of cannabis possession through an adult warning rather than through the courts, leading to a sharp drop in prosecutions. .

Posted: November 19, 2021 / 4:49 PM CST
/ Update: November 19, 2021 / 4:49 PM CST

ST. LOUIS – A cannabis-infused seltzer is on the market at several medical marijuana dispensaries in the St. Louis area. The locally made low dose infused seltzer is called “Society”.

The product is manufactured by Monarch Supply Company. The seltzer is the first of its kind to originate from Missouri. It will be available to medical cannabis patients statewide by early 2022.

Seltzer is made from citrus and tropical ingredients, infused with a tasteless extract in a micro-dose of 5 milligrams of THC.

The drinks are available in three flavors: cherry blossom, blood orange and ginger and lime. The company claims that they are also fast acting and contain 15 calories.

Society comes in a stylish, weathered, resealable 12-ounce tin, and sells for $ 7.

Monarch is a St. Louis-based business and is owned and operated by a local team with 70 years of combined experience in both traditional beer leadership and building craft beer brands.

“Our combined beer and cannabis experience gives our Society beverage portfolio an edge and an advantage,†said Doug Mars, director of operations for Monarch, in a press release.

Prior to Monarch, Mars had a 26-year career with Anheuser-Busch. Most recently, he served as the general manager of a local high-production independent craft brewery and managed the first retail licensed medical dispensary in the early adopted state of Illinois in the Midwest.

Monarch CEO Corey Christanell says the company is appealing to broader trends as well, including as an alternative for millennials and baby boomers who are ditching sugary drinks and drinking less alcohol.

The name “Society” recognizes how sociable an infused drink is, reflecting the brand’s commitment to making cannabis socially acceptable.

Because “the purpose†is a core value of Monarch, the company’s beverage portfolio includes a social impact initiative called Support A Purpose. Support a Purpose is designed to advance the collective efforts of the cannabis community to destigmatize the plant, while allowing customers to fund donations in partnership with their hometown dispensaries for their hometown charities.

Plans by Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration to clamp down on the sale of certain psychoactive products like delta-8 hit a wall of resistance from the hemp industry during a Thursday meeting of a new task force. Critics of the plan argue the rules were rushed, unenforceable and would trigger legal challenges.

“We wake up one morning and find that we may be breaking the law,” Maurice Robinson, owner of the Greener Things store in Charlottesville, told state officials as part of a new task force on the hemp in Richmond. “And that bothers a lot of us.”

Virginia Department of Agriculture officials have warned that hemp products are untested and potentially unsafe, citing more than 2,300 calls to national poison control centers related to products from January 1, 2021 to February 28. Only one case resulted in the death of a minor, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

The first meeting of the task force shed light on the convoluted state laws governing cannabis products. Legal marijuana can only be purchased at a handful of state-licensed medical dispensaries. But products chemically derived from the hemp plant, like those marketed as delta-8 or delta-10, can still get users high and are now widely available in Virginia stores. The names refer to compounds – cannabinoids – found in trace amounts in Cannabis sativa plants. The products are created by chemically converting the cannabidiol found in hemp extracts into delta-8 or delta-10.

A crackdown on certain hemp-based edibles

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Attorney General Jason Miyares announcement last week that the ministry would crack down on sales of certain hemp edibles containing “chemically synthesized” tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis.

The announcement cited language in the new state budget as the reason for the change. It did not attempt to regulate smokable products, which fall outside the purview of VDACS.

It’s unclear what will constitute a “synthetically derived” product under the new announcement.

Linda Jackson, director of the state Department of Forensic Science and a member of the Department of Agriculture’s task force, said Thursday that “a lab would have a very difficult — if not impossible — time determining whether the delta- 8 occurred naturally or from a synthetic process.

Other speakers noted that manufacturers are working on ways to synthesize delta-8 and other THC compounds. using yeast — a process that seems to escape the new rules.

Jackson also said the state currently has no way to test for delta-8 or delta-10 intoxication in drivers who appear impaired, but is working on a solution.

Ryan Davis, program manager at the Dairy and Food Department’s office, said the budget provides “a clear mandate” for the department to ensure that products, particularly delta-8, “are no longer made in Virginia”.

“At this point, we’re going to do everything we can to urge everyone to voluntarily comply,” he said. “We will probably, at some point, have to take other measures.”

The FDA argued that delta-8 products laid “serious health risks”. Critics of the products say there is little quality control or long-term research into the substances or regulation of what goes into the products.

Manufacturers, farmers and retailers argue that products are safe if properly regulated. Some say they are reviled in an effort to eliminate competition from the big cannabis companies that run the state’s medical marijuana market. In May, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of California ruled that delta-8 products are federally legal under the 2018 Farm Bill passed by Congress. If federal lawmakers had no intention of legalizing delta-8, “then it’s up to Congress to fix its mistake,” the three-judge panel said. wrote in its unanimous decision.

Dylan Bishop, a lobbyist for the Cannabis Business Association of Virginia, was among about two dozen speakers claiming that Virginia’s new rules were not based on state law and claimed the change amounted to policy change overnight.

Bishop noted that lawmakers rejected legislative attempts to explicitly ban delta-8 products.

“To say that this policy change is the product of the legislative process and the recently passed budget is a bit hypocritical,” Bishop said. In an interview with VPM News on Friday, Bishop said he expected the new rules to trigger legal challenges.

Other speakers, like Southwest Virginia hemp processor Kerry McCormick, warned that the move would only cause them to shift their operations to friendlier states.

“I’m about 45 minutes from the Tennessee border,” McCormick said. “About 15 of my jobs are about to be outsourced to Tennessee. It’s going to be on this committee.

But Tom Intorcio, associate director of the Catholic Conference of Virginia, called on the General Assembly to go further and ban smoking products.

“The push to bring these drugs to market puts everyone’s safety at risk,” Intorcio said.

The new state budget created the Hemp Task Force “to analyze and make recommendations” on regulations regarding “the safe and responsible manufacture and sale of industrial hemp extracts,” but did not expressly prohibits the sale of the products. It also set new rules for hemp products containing THC: items cannot be sold to anyone under 21 and must include child-resistant packaging that displays a list of ingredients, as well as lab test results showing THC concentrations.

The budget was broadly interpreted by lawmakers and the hemp industry to legalize the products – at least until the VDACS announcement last week.

The Hemp Task Force will not make new policies on its own. Instead, the budget tasked the group with writing a report with recommendations by Nov. 15. The group includes members from a range of state agencies, boards and departments, but does not include representatives from the hemp industry, leading critics to claim the state. had no interest in engaging with them.

The produce controversy apparently caught the state’s top agriculture official off guard.

“When we took office six months ago, I had no idea this topic of hemp and hemp extracts would be as big a topic as it has become,” the secretary told Agriculture and Forestry, Matt Lohr.

Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities say are run by foreign cartels live in squalid conditions and are sometimes deceived and threatened by their gang bosses.

The situation has become so dire in the largely rural region near the state border with California, amid a wave of violent crime and water theft for cultivation operations during a severe drought, which Jackson and Douglas counties declared a state of emergency last month.

They asked for state funding and other resources, including the deployment of the National Guard, to properly enforce cannabis laws.

Commissioners for neighboring Josephine County said on Thursday they were preparing their own declaration of emergency. A draft document cites “widespread violations of county codes, state water laws and criminal laws.” Previously, they had written a letter to the President of the Oregon Senate saying the county was experiencing “a tragic increase in narco-slavery.”

A spokeswoman for Democratic Governor Kate Brown, Elizabeth Merah, said there were no immediate plans to deploy the National Guard.

Many illegal marijuana farms in the area operate under the guise of being legal hemp farms, but the crops they grow contain amounts of THC – the component that gives cannabis its high level – well above legal levels allowed for hemp.

State regulators and local law enforcement have been overwhelmed by the number of industrial-scale cultivation sites, which they say number in the hundreds, if not thousands.

There aren’t enough inspectors to test THC content on every site to determine which is legal and which isn’t, officials said. Some sites, often with armed guards, refused entry to state inspectors. Police said they did not have the capacity to search all suspicious sites because each search requires an investigation and search warrants.

And some illegal operations officials refuse to pay workers and have threatened them with violence if they approach authorities or try to resign, according to law enforcement officials and a group that advocates for the rights of migrants and workers. agricultural workers.

“We had several cases in Josephine County, where they were threatened with guns over their heads, ‘If you tell someone, we’re going to hurt your family in Mexico’, or ‘ We’re going to shoot you, ‘”said Kathy Keesee-Morales, co-director of Unete, an immigrant and farm worker advocacy group based in Medford, Oregon.

Some of the workers who say they were deceived reached out to Unete, who tried to help by calling the managers of the cannabis farm and warning them that they might face complaints filed with the Labor Office and the industry in Oregon if they don’t pay workers what they’re owed, Keesee-Morales said.

“A lot of times they’ll pay them just because they don’t want any interaction with the state,†Keesee-Morales said.

The number of illegal marijuana farms in the area, which are not part of Oregon’s legal and regulated marijuana system, has increased this year, with some even emerging along state highways.

They produce tons of marijuana that are sold out of state. Officials believe the cartels selected southern Oregon because it is considered part of the legendary Emerald Triangle, an area in which California’s Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties form the major part.

The area produces premium cannabis that is “the cannabis microbrewery,” said State Representative Lily Morgan, a Republican from the small town of Grants Pass, the seat of Josephine County.

“You can ask for it on a high dollar all over the world,†she said.

Local landowners often rent or sell their property to illegal cultivators at prices well above normal rates. In one case, a landlord went to her land to negotiate a lease renewal and discovered that the manager of the illegal marijuana farm had left and left the growing equipment and workers behind.

Morgan said the owner told county officials: “These people have been abandoned, there are workers who don’t have IDs, they don’t speak English, they don’t have food. “

The Oregon Labor Office is investigating wage complaints from workers on illegal marijuana farms, said Sonia Ramirez, administrator of the office’s wages and hours division.

Workers had to use holes in the ground for toilets, bathe in makeshift showers, cook in unsanitary kitchens, and live in tents and sleep on cots in shipping containers and greenhouses. marijuana, Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler said.

Sickler said his deputies do not arrest workers for alleged immigration violations and instead distribute cards, in Spanish, provided by Unete, listing agencies that provide free services to migrants.

Workers are reluctant to speak to law enforcement officials because they are terrified that cartel enforcement officials may find out they have done so and harm them or their living relatives elsewhere, said Sickler and Keesee-Morales.

“There is a fear factor,†said the sheriff. “These individuals know they could be at risk of talking to the police about a number of things, including terms, non-payment.”

As the colder weather now arriving in Oregon marks the end of the growing season for many marijuana grow sites, the indoor illegal operations continue to operate through the winter as they are fitted with lights. heaters that allow cannabis plants to grow.

Sickler doesn’t expect criminal activity to slow down as a lot of money is involved, creating a tempting target for thieves.

In raids by Sickler MPs one September day on two cannabis farms, officers found $ 650,000, 7.5 tonnes of processed marijuana and 20,000 cannabis plants.

Last month, gunmen attempted to rob an illegal marijuana cultivation site and processing facility in the small town of Eagle Point in Jackson County. Three men from Sacramento, California were arrested for theft, unlawful use of a weapon and assault.

Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel did not predict any immediate resolution to the problem of illegal marijuana farms.

“This summer was absolutely out of control,†he said. “We expect next year to be just as bad, if not worse.”

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The views Joy Behar never hesitates to challenge government officials, especially when she feels innocent people are being mistreated. And during today’s hot topics segment, Behar suggested that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin may have planted the cannabis vape cartridges in Griner’s luggage that led to his current detention.

“How do we know that this white man, Putin, didn’t have his agents plant this thing on him?” Behar said on the show.

Brittney Griner is an African-American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury team. In February, Griner was in Russia playing overseas for UMMC Ekaterinburg during their WNBA off-season. As she was returning home, customs officers arrested her after they allegedly found vaping cartridges containing hash oil in her luggage at Sheremetyevo airport.

According to Associated press, a Russian court will begin the trial of Brittney Griner on Friday and will also extend her detention for another six months. In Russia, less than 1% of defendants are found not guilty, and if Griner is found guilty, she faces up to 10 years in prison.

Confused and upset, Whoopi Goldberg also came to Griner’s defense: “How stupid should she be not to know – she’s not a stupid woman.” She’s an amazing woman.. so she knows the rules. So this is all BS”

Goldberg isn’t the only American worried about the outcome of the WNBA star’s treatment in Russia. The director of The queen of basketballBen Proudfoot, dedicated his Oscars speech to the athlete in March.

“President Biden, bring Brittney Griner home,” Produfoot said at the time.

Go back on View, Sonny Hostin threw some of the blame from Russia back to the WBNA, noting that “Lebron wouldn’t be here anymore!” One of the reasons she was there is because we pay our female basketball players so poorly in the United States, and that’s shameful.

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Columbia Care Completes Acquisition of Colorado-based Medicine Man; Strengthens its leadership position in the world’s second largest cannabis market

• Adds four Denver-Metro retail outlets and 35,000 square foot indoor grow facility
• Immediately accelerate Columbia Care’s adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flow
• Solidifies Columbia Care’s Position as the Leading Retailer, Grower and Manufacturer in Colorado

NEW YORK, November 1, 2021– (BUSINESS WIRE) –Columbia Care Inc. (NEO: CCHW) (CSE: CCHW) (OTCQX: CCHWF) (FSE: 3LP) (“Columbia Care†or the “Companyâ€), one of largest and most experienced cannabis growers, manufacturers and distributors in the United States, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Medicine Man, a leading, vertically integrated cannabis company based in the United States. Colorado, which has served the Denver metro area since 2009.

The total initial consideration was $ 42.0 million, including $ 8.4 million in cash and $ 33.6 million in shares, with the possibility of an additional milestone payment based on 2021 performance. The transaction is immediately accretive to Adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flows. The initial consideration of $ 42.0 million represents a multiple of approximately 4.5 times the EBITDA forecast for 2021.

As the second largest cannabis market in the world, Colorado has become a global indicator for adult use programs and continues to show strong organic growth. The acquisition of Medicine Man strengthens our leadership position in the state by combining us with a recognized operator that has consistently outperformed the Colorado market since its inception.

Nicholas Vita, CEO of Columbia Care

We are grateful to the cities of Aurora, Denver and Thornton, and the State of Colorado, for their support, and to the team at Medicine Man who have been great to work with throughout this process. Our vision and values ​​are aligned, and we look forward to expanding our Columbia Care family with the addition of those who have made Medicine Man such a successful business.

The acquisition adds a culture facility and four dispensaries to Columbia Care’s operations in Colorado, including the location of Medicine Man Longmont, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022. Columbia Care’s Colorado footprint will now total 26 dispensaries and six growing and manufacturing facilities, including those under the The Green Solution brand.

This marks the next step in the evolution of Medicine Man from an ambitious family business to part of a blue chip operation. Our experience with Columbia Care through this process reinforced the reasons we decided to partner with them.

Sally Vander Veer, CEO of Medicine Man

The team has been amazing, fair and efficient over the past few months. Our goal now is to implement their vision and bring as much value as possible to Operation Columbia Care.

For more information on the transaction, please refer to Columbia Care’s Press release published on June 15, 2021, or visit the presentations section of the investor site.

Advisors

Foley Hoag LLP is legal counsel for Columbia Care. Right Side Advisory Services acts as financial advisor to Medicine Man. Husch Blackwell LLP is acting as legal counsel to Medicine Man.

About Columbia Care

Columbia Care is one of the largest and most experienced cultivators, manufacturers and suppliers of cannabis products and related services, with licenses in 18 US jurisdictions and the EU. Columbia Care operates 130 facilities, including 99 dispensaries and 31 growing and manufacturing facilities, including those under development. Columbia Care is one of the premier providers of medical cannabis in the United States and now offers cutting-edge products and services to both the medical and adult markets. In 2021, the company launched Cannabist, its new retail brand, creating a nationwide network of dispensaries that operate proprietary technology platforms. The company offers products including flowers, edibles, oils and tablets, and manufactures popular brands such as Seed & Strain, Triple Seven, gLeaf, Classix, Plant Sugar, Press, Amber and Platinum Label CBD. For more information on Columbia Care, please visit www.col-care.com.

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VSannabis, weed, pot, marihuana, ganja, weed, reefer, mary jane, cheeba-cheeba, or whatever you want to call it has been gradually legalized in many states in the United States and since then many people have been using the plant both for medical and recreational use, it was only a matter of time that venues opened up to celebrate cannabis cultivation.

Los Angeles is still in the top 5 of most cannabis-using cities

The Montalbn Theater is located in Hollywood and its rooftop is used to screen movies that are staples of cannabis culture, stoners know that weed and movies go together like peas and carrots and the Montalbn administration knows that there is a profit in creating the ideal environment so people can gather and smoke.

Rico Montanez and James Jordan are the big bosses of the Cannabis & Movie Club who are in charge of these events that have to navigate the legal seas of what’s allowed and what’s not.

It’s complicated to have an event that promotes use, even when it’s legal

“It’s extremely difficult to create consistency and find a business location that has a big insurance package and is willing to take the risk on that particular idea,” Jordan mentions. “It’s not that there aren’t entrepreneurs out there who are going to swing the bat, it’s that they don’t have the strategy and the legal framework that we’ve spent a lot of time building. create in order to attract brands, especially the bigger brands, who won’t get involved if there isn’t a proper legal framework.”

Ban or not

Professor Robert Solomon, co-chair of the Center for the Study of Cannabis at UC Irvine, adds his expertise, saying that “In California, statutes allow localities to veto any cannabis within their jurisdiction. Eighty percent of the state, geographically, doesn’t have cannabis, in which case there’s no particular ban in LA What I understand the club is trying to do is comply with state law, or to put it another way, not to violate state law. That means it can’t be public, so they form a club; it has to be out of sight, so they do it on a roof.”