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By State House News Service The New England Council, a business-minded organization that maintains close ties to members of Congress from the six northeast states, last week voiced its support for federal legislation to protect banks working with state-legal marijuana companies from federal regulatory penalties. Because marijuana remains wholly illegal at the federal level, state-authorized businesses have struggled to find banks, most of which operate under federal regulations and with federal insurance, willing to accept them as customers. Industry leaders and other supporters...

Select Page N.E. Council Backs Bank Protections for Pot Industry By State House News Service | Apr 6, 2021 | Reprints | Print The New England Council, a business-minded organization that maintains close ties to members of Congress from the six northeast states, last week voiced its support for federal legislation to protect banks working with state-legal marijuana companies from federal regulatory penalties Because marijuana remains wholly illegal at the federal level, state-authorized businesses have struggled to find banks, most of which operate under feder...

The complacent country: How Canadian public health allowed itself to be steamrolled by COVID-19 COVID-19 had already killed 3,000 people in 60 countries when Canadian officialdom was universally chiding people not to 'overreact' Author of the article: Tristin Hopper Publishing date: Mar 08, 2021  •  March 8, 2021  •  6 minute read  •  Health Minister Patty Hajdu, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam on March 11, 2020. After 12 months of mask mandates and lockdowns, it’s easy for Canadians to forget just how unwilling their leader...

‘There’s no financing’: Cannabis equity applicants look forward to home delivery, but struggle with startup costs Updated Mar 03, 2021; Posted Feb 17, 2021 Major Bloom, a cannabis retailer and economic empowerment business looking to open in Worcester, has its provisional license as a temporary window covering. Facebook Share This year is poised to have a milestone moment for the Massachusetts cannabis industry with the anticipated launch of home delivery. But members of the state’s equity programs still struggle with finding the financing to get their businesses off the ground. To ...

Warner, who has experience helping a pharmaceutical company send its antiretroviral drugs around the world during the AIDS epidemic, said the notion that the rollout would proceed without issue was misguided. "I think there was a period because of the pandemic and its effect on people and everybody wanted hope," he said, adding that people were looking for a "happy science story." "The rest of the world has seemed to catch up to what I think people like me have unfortunately thought was going to happen, which is supply chains and competition and trade issues, and that's where we are."