Items tagged with tobacco industry
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| Cannabis goes corporate: Lobbyists, unions seek to shape marijuana industry [08.05.2021] | The rally at the state capitol on April 20, the unofficial holiday for pot aficionados, brought out green-wigged supporters ringed in wisps of smoke. ... |
| Alcohol giant Diageo, Tobacco giant Reynolds, and Morgan Stanley among companies newly lobbying on cannabis [21.04.2021] | The US House of Representatives passed a bill to expand cannabis industry access to banking. While a version of that bill stalled in the last Senate, ... |
| Big tobacco is coming for legal marijuana [08.04.2021] | Big Tobacco has been planning for this moment for decades. A 1983 industry list titled New Product Ideas, made public as part of a court settlement, ... |
| BAT looks beyond tobacco to Canadian marijuana [11.03.2021] | British American Tobacco said it will buy a nearly 20% stake in Canada-based cannabis producer Organigram for about 126 million pounds ($175.8 millio ... |
| How tobacco giant Altria is becoming a cannabis company [09.02.2021] | Altria, one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, is well on its way to also being one of the world’s biggest and most influential cannabis compa ... |
| Malawi legalises cannabis amid hopes of fresh economic growth [28.02.2020] | Malawi has passed a bill decriminalising cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes, almost five years after a motion to legalise industrial hemp ... |
| Inside the Walmart of weed [23.11.2019] | With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now ... |
| Auxly Cannabis stock soars as British tobacco giant Imperial takes 20% stake [25.07.2019] | British tobacco company Imperial Brands is getting into the cannabis business with a $123 million investment in Auxly Cannabis, the Canadian company ... |
| 'Legalize marijuana without corporatized marijuana,' says New York mayor Bill de Blasio [03.02.2019] | New York Mayor Bill de Blasio supports Governor Andrew Cuomo's pledge to legalize recreational marijuana, but he doesn't want the the market to be ov ... |
| Marlboro owner Altria invests $1.8 billion in cannabis company Cronos [07.12.2018] | Tobacco giant Altira is investing $1.8 billion in Canadian cannabis company Cronos Group. That will give Altria a 45% stake in the company, with an o ... |
| Tobacco giant Imperial Brands invests in medical cannabis [28.06.2018] | Tobacco firm Imperial Brands is investing in UK biotech company Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT). The move comes as campaigning to allow marijua ... |
| Big Tobacco invests in Canadian marijuana, leaving B.C.'s craft-cannabis producers uneasy [28.02.2018] | Earlier this month, an unremarkable sentence appeared in a quarterly report published by Alliance One International, a tobacco company headquartered ... |
| Big US tobacco company buys stakes in Canadian cannabis growers, American hemp firm [09.02.2018] | A publicly traded U.S. tobacco company has bought controlling stakes in two Canadian marijuana producers and invested in a North Carolina hemp grower ... |
| How big tobacco, alcohol and pharma companies could enter the cannabis industry [06.11.2017] | The entrance of Constellation Brands in the cannabis industry has broken the insulation around cannabis companies — it is now incumbent upon the indu ... |
| U.K. tobacco giant gets medicinal cannabis expertise [13.06.2017] | Imperial Brands Plc gained the services of a leader in the field of medicinal cannabis as the British tobacco manufacturer seeks to further its push ... |
| 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? [30.10.2016] | Candi CdeBaca voted to legalize the free sale of marijuana in Colorado four years ago because she thought it would be good for her Denver neighborhoo ... |
| Tobacco Trade Association calls for legalizing hash [06.04.2015] | The Cairo and Giza Tobacco Merchants Association submitted a proposal to the Cabinet to legalize the use and trade of hash, arguing the measure could ... |
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