Evergreen Pacific Insurance Corp. (EPIC), the Toronto-based financial-services holding company, announced it has signed a binding agreement to acquire a majority interest in Synergy Health Services, subject to completion of customary due diligence. Financial details of the transaction were not …
Canada is set to become the first Group of Seven nation to legalize recreational marijuana after a bill from Justin Trudeau’s government won the backing of the upper chamber. The Senate’s approval in a vote Tuesday night in Ottawa clears …
FPI Management, a property company in California, wants to hire dozens of people. Factories from New Hampshire to Michigan need workers. Hotels in Las Vegas are desperate to fill jobs. Those employers and many others are quietly taking what once …
Canada’s marijuana legalization took a big step forward as the Senate passed an amended bill, meaning Justin Trudeau’s government can probably finalize the law and open the market in the next few months. Bill C-45 passed by a vote of …
An Oregon county is trying to crack down on illegal marijuana production by hiring two enforcement officers, and to limit new legal grows by considering a pause on the processing of applications to produce cannabis. The move this week by …
Once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, Garnet Amundson says it will get a lot harder to find the workers he needs at Essential Energy Services Ltd. And he isn’t the only employer who’s worried. Essential Energy provides services to …
Like many pot shops in California, the Urbn Leaf in San Diego bulked up its inventory before legal sales began on Jan. 1, stockpiling enough marijuana to last for months because no one knew what the era of legal pot …
Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is working – and can work better with federal collaboration, the state’s governor and Republican attorney general told U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a letter. Gov. John Hickenlooper and Attorney General Cynthia Coffman urged Sessions …
With recreational marijuana use just months away from being legal in California, Los Angeles has appointed a so-called cannabis czar tasked with regulating the local pot industry. The Daily News reported the City Council voted unanimously this week to confirm …
Recreational marijuana sales have exceeded the expectations of Las Vegas area store owners. Eager pot customers this week again lined up before dispensaries opened their doors. That’s after thousands swarmed the pot stores over the weekend. Nevada on Saturday became …
