Sandy Marriott Bertha, longtime Olivenhain resident and philanthropist, has been chosen to receive the 14th Annual Distinguished Achievement Award at a fundraiser to benefit the launch of the Newborn Safe Sleep Center at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas.
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Feighan, who represented Ohio s 19th congressional district, is also Vitality Biopharma s Executive Chairman.
Cannformatics CEO Itzhak Kurek welcomed Feighan for his leadership and experience with developing cannabinoid-based pharmaceutical products.
Feighan will be invaluable as we meet with investors and partners who share our commitment to the discovery and application of scientific evidence-based knowledge in the use of medical cannabis to improve health and quality-of-life, Kurek added.
Urban-Gro Names New President And COO
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Urban-Gro (OTCQX:UGRO) has named James Dennedy president and chief operating officer.
Dennedy has held several executive roles in public as well as private companies. He has also served on the board of Lafayette, a Colorado-based company, since August 2018.
Washington, DC:Â Language included in the appropriation package approved by Congress on Monday includes provisions repealing the longstanding federal ban on providing student aid eligibility to those with certain drug convictions.
As first reported by Marijuana Moment, provisions in the nearly 6000-page package amend a 1998 federal law that mandated those applying for student aid to disclose if they ever had a drug-related conviction, and barred hundreds of thousands of applicants from receiving funding. The new law strikes the subsection of the Higher Education Act that established the drug-related eligibility standard.
Rachel Wissner, co-interim executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), told Marijuana Moment: âOver the last two decades, we have been fighting alongside other drug policy reform and education organizations to scale back the penalty. Now that the penalty has fully been repealed, SSDP looks forward to the opportunity to work wi