The Wash ...Daily February 5 2020

in todays report....

Boston has given it's only HCA to the former Sheriff who has been made CEO of an outsider and multistate operator weed firm, pretending to be from Boston.

Military Industrial Complex needs you to shut up about CBD and get inline with the pharma they love so much.

Medical Marijuana is set to include a price high enough to make opiate treatments seem, at least financially, reasonable.

Former Massachusetts Sheriff Andrea Cabral , is the first inline to open a Boston dispensary, Meanwhile loads of people are still serving time for Cannabis, and were incarcerated while she hypocritically held the position of Suffolk county Sheriff. Instead of giving local folks with actual expertise the opportunities, wealthy, multi state operators are getting the win. Many small business applicants have been getting the run around for years now, while they have also been forced to maintain their scheduled cannabis facilities as well as the exorbitant costs of being in compliance.

Cabral defending her position

and while The economic Empowerment folks are losing the farm, Cabral's firm just raised 55 million, with the source over half of that being shrouded in secrecy.

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/02/20/boston-marijuana-dispensary-raises-55m-as-it.html

more of Ascends cannabis projects
https://www.sj-r.com/news/20191214/ascend-illinois-cultivation-center-gears-up-for-recreational-pot-sales

meanwhile...

The host community piece has become a tool of extortion, giving landlords the power to make or break the prospective small business, and via astronomical real estate increases for the earmarked properties, a sort of privatized pay to play has been established complete with obstacles to the little guys like unsustainable and asrtonomical rent.

https://patch.com/massachusetts/natick/could-natick-fix-marijuana-social-equity

https://natick.wickedlocal.com/news/20190308/top-stories-councilors-reject-host-community-agreements-for-pot-shops-opening-day-for-area-warm-weather-spots-introducing-c-cs-evan-studley

https://www.masslive.com/marijuana/2020/02/massachusetts-legislators-on-track-to-take-up-community-host-agreements-for-marijuana-businesses.html

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20190915/some-believe-massachusetts-marijuana-agreements-are-universal-failures

High cost of medical marijuana can make opioids the more affordable option

http://thescopeboston.org/features/high-cost-of-medical-marijuana/

DOD says no CBD despite mountains of research.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/u-s-military-reiterates-that-cbd-is-off-limits-to-service-members/

despite them knowing full well the extent of the problem

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/ptsd-in-military-veterans.htm

and that cannabis has shown itself to be so effective in providing relief.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007739/

https://www.leafly.com/news/health/cannabis-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd

HAPPY HEMP DAY!