• Marijuana Stocks Spike After Ex-House Speaker John Boehner Joins
Cannabis Company Board (by Sy Mukherjee)
Not exact matches
Companies like Constellation also have significant experience dealing with provincial liquor control
boards — the same entities that will oversee retail and distribution for
cannabis.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner joined a
board of advisors for
cannabis company Acreage Holdings earlier this month after changing his own views on
cannabis.
He founded his
company Weedmaps, a sort of Yelp for marijuana dispensaries, in 2008, and now serves on the
board of directors for the National
Cannabis Industry Association, the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which most people know as NORML and for which he also serves as treasurer.
The former Republican House Speaker's move to serve on the advisory
board to a
cannabis company shows pot is increasingly supported by American establishment
The former House speaker announced his views on
cannabis had evolved and, in support of legalization, he was joining the
board of directors of New York - based marijuana
company Acreage Holdings.
In Washington, New York Senator Chuck Schumer is talking up a Federal legalization bill, and former pot opponent John Boehner, long time Republican Speaker of the House has joined the advisory
board of Acreage Holdings, a
company that cultivates, processes and dispenses
cannabis in 11 U.S. states.
Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at New York University, has created a consulting
company that has been hired by Washington State's liquor
board to help it develop a framework for selling legal
cannabis.
The Ontario government has inked a deal to use Shopify Inc.'s e-commerce platform for
cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC), a subsidiary of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, will use the Ottawa - based com
cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.The Ontario
Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC), a subsidiary of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, will use the Ottawa - based com
Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC), a subsidiary of the Liquor Control
Board of Ontario, will use the Ottawa - based
company's o