Sitemap - 2022 - Highly Objective
🎙️ BLAZE, Chief Product Offer, Kai Kirk
💸 Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Revealed as Key Investor in Curaleaf
🎙️ Leaf Trade, President & Chief Revenue Officer, Michael Piermont
❌ SAFE Banking excluded from final Omnibus Bill
📉 Cannabis Stocks Shows Pessimism on SAFE
📰 Biden Signs Medical Marijuana Research Bill, Chatter Around SAFE Banking Passing
🎙️ Jane Technologies, CEO, Soc Rosenfeld
🗽 NY Approves First 36 Dispensary Licenses
🗳️ Adult-Use to Launch in Missouri February 2023, Maryland July 2023
💨 Combs Enterprises will purchase Cresco Labs/Columbia Care divestiture in IL/MA/NY for up to $185M
💬 Q&A with Kevin Hart, CEO, Green Check Verified (GCV)
🏡 Canopy Growth Forms Canopy USA (Acreage, Jetty, Wana)
📰 Florida’s Health Department has not yet approved the deal between Circle K and GTI
🏪 GTI to Launch “RISE Express” Dispensaries in Florida through Lease Agreement with Circle K
🏙️ Recap: MJ Unpacked Las Vegas 2022
📰 Biden to Pardon All Prior Federal Offenses for Simple Marijuana Possession
🗳️ Arkansas Recreational Cannabis on for November ballot
🎙️ Kiva Confections, Co-Founder, Kristi Palmer
🥊 Mike Tyson and Ric Flair go viral with blunt rotation at Benzinga Conference
🗳️ Biden Doesn’t Plan Any Cannabis Policy Moves Ahead Of Midterms
Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference
💨 Cannabis use outpacing cigarette use for the first time
🏪 SNDL acquires The Valens Company
☠️ Ascend Wellness Calls Off MedMen NY Acquisition
🍎 New York to Begin Accepting License Applications on August 25th
📃 Republican Support for ‘SAFE Banking Plus’
🌿 Wholesale Flower Prices Plummets in MI While Supply Concerns in NJ
💭 What's going on with alleaves?
📰 Cannabis Administration and Opportunity (CAO) Act Introduced in the Senate
🎙️ Podcast: Jetty Extracts, CEO, Ron Gershoni
👨🌾California Eliminates Cannabis Cultivation Tax
🎙️ Podcast: Bespoke Financial (George Mancheril, Judson Hill) x Blaze (Chris Violas)
📉 Cannabis Companies have raised $294M in 1H 2022, less than 1/3 the total raised in 1H 2021
🎙️ Podcast: TILT, CEO, Gary Santo
⚾ MLB Allow Teams to Sell CBD Sponsorships
📉 Springbig (SBIG) Completes Business Combination with Tuatara SPAC
🎙️ Podcast: Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH), CEO, Abner Kurtin
💳 Shryne Group (Stiiizy) receives Senior Secured Term Loan that could go up to $170M
📰 MSOs to hire Boies Schiller Flexner to sue Federal Government
🎙️ Podcast: Alpine IQ – CEO, Nick Paschal and CRO, West Paschal
👩🌾 California Governor Proposes Eliminating Cannabis Cultivation Tax
🎙️ Podcast: WM Technology – CEO, Chris Beals
💼 AWH Settles Lawsuit with MedMen by increasing transaction consideration by $15M
📓 Q&A with MJ Unpacked (George & Kim Jage)
💳 Debt continues to dominate financings (93% of capital raised past 3 Quarters)
⛱️ Recap: Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference
🏙️ NY issues 52 Cannabis Cultivation Licenses
⛴️ Incumbent New Jersey Medical Cannabis Operators Receive Approval to Launch Adult-Use
🐎 New Mexico Cannabis Sees $3.5M in Sales after First Weekend of Adult Use
🏙️ RIV Capital acquires Etain (NY) for $247M
🤝 Cresco Labs acquires Columbia Care for $2.0B (~35% of pro forma company)
🐎New Mexico recreational sales launches April 1st, potential supply issue within a few months
🗽 New York Releases Proposed Regulations for Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary
🎙️ Podcast: AeroPay CEO, Daniel Muller
💳 Tilray acquires $211M of HEXO Senior Secured Convertible Note, Creating Strategic Alliance
🎙️ Podcast: Pilgrim Soul – CEO, Shawn Gold
🍊 MedMen Sells Florida Assets for $83M Cash to Bluma Wellness Founder
💲 Cann $27M Series A / Cansativa $15M Series B
🎙️ Podcast: Seed & Smith – CEO, Brooks Lustig
💰 Northern Lights SPAC x Safe Harbor Financial ($327M Market Cap)
🎙️ Podcast: Pelorus – President, Rob Sechrist
📈 Leafly and Merida Merger Corp. I close Business Combination (LFLY)
🤝 Verano acquires Goodness Growth for $413M in Stock (10.1% of pro forma company)
💰 Trulieve adds $75M to 8% Senior Secured Notes ($425M Aggregate)
💳 Silver Spike Investment Corp. raising $125M in IPO for Cannabis Debt
🏛️ California Cannabis Operators Call for Change to Tax System (Cultivation & Excise Taxes)
🎙️ Podcast: Green Flower, CEO, Max Simon
🔮 U.S. Cannabis Market Forecast up to $45B in 2025, Headset
⚔️ MedMen Terminates Investment Agreement with AWH for MedMen NY