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...When New York last week took its first step towards legalising cannabis, governor Andrew Cuomo praised the state as the “progressive capital of the nation”....
...(Caliva), California’s most trusted cannabis brand and leading direct-to-consumer platform, and Left Coast Ventures, Inc....
...Measuring happiness is subjective, but that hasn’t stopped a host of public and private bodies – from the United Nations to American asset management company Mercer – from giving it a go....
...The English seaside resort of Weymouth is in the heart of the Jurassic coast, an almost 100-mile stretch of shoreline renowned for its fossils....
...It was hard to imagine a decade ago that tobacco and drinks manufacturers would be eyeing cannabis as the next big thing; yet many are now pivoting to pot....
...Aurora Cannabis has hired Nelson Peltz as a strategic adviser to the cannabis producer....
...Medical use is authorised at the federal or national level in 29 countries, according to Tilray, and, in October, Canada is expected to become the first major industrialised nation to legalise adult-use...
...There are 26 listed companies producing cannabis with sales of more than $2.5m per quarter, according to New Cannabis Ventures. A further 27 are expected to be publicly tradeable soon....
...Other nations may follow. Investing will not be as simple as buying stocks exposed to hemp farming. Cannabis shares are getting sky high, all the same....
...The shellfish farms of Sriracha, the Thai seaside town that gave the world its eponymous hot chilli sauce, are awash with plastic....
...“We are a significant player in the cannabis space,” says Saul Kaye, iCAN’s founder and chief executive....
...But the new US attorney-general, Jeff Sessions, has argued — against all scientific evidence — that marijuana is “only slightly less awful” than heroin, and has vowed to use his office as the nation’s top...
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...Their answer (for now): After leaving the EU, Britain will seek a “unique” model that will confirm its place as “one of the great trading nations in the world”, the government declared after ministers met...
...(FT Alphaville) Football’s growing appeal India and the US are among the nations ever more lured to a game with global appeal, driving demand for live television rights....
...Indeed, Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes, who owns the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturer, opposes legalising cannabis in his country, which is believed to be the second-biggest producer of illegal...
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...For months, residents in an affluent part of Pattaya, a seaside resort town near Bangkok, assumed that the three foreign men who lived in a nearby luxury villa ran an import-export business, because, as...
...“The Peak District National Park is at the heart of the nation,” says Jim Dixon, its chief executive....
...The seaside town of Minami Sanriku is a plain of only partially cleared debris studded by the hulks of concrete buildings....
...Life in its seaside towns has never been easy....
...Ashdown storms off after delegates back cannabis legalisation inquiry To this day The Captain insists he wasn’t in a huff....
...Angelakos blames the lack of innovation in the bloated public sector for dulling the minds of the brightest young Greeks, turning a nation of entrepreneurs, he exclaims, into a “nation of vegetables”....
...His pronouncement comes at the behest of the Group of 20 leading industrial and developing nations, which last September put accounting on its agenda....
...The initiative will strengthen ties between the club and the west African nation that have already seen Haringey go there to box and ship over an entire boxing ring....
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