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FALL RIVER Jay says he buys high-quality pot in Fall River not to get a buzz but to help him fall asleep. “I have horrible insomnia, and it helps me a lot,” said the 38-year-old Warwick resident, who didn’t want to reveal his last name. Jay says he’s not eligible for a medical cannabis card in Rhode Island which is why he spends up to $200 every two months at the Northeast Alternatives dispensary on William S. Canning Boulevard off of Route 24 near the Tiverton line. “I have no choice but to come here,” Jay said on a recent weekday afternoon, as he held a small customer bag containing both smokable weed and cannabis wax, which is a concentrated form of cannabis oil. ....
Unionization Efforts Are Under Way in the Cannabis Space Cultivation and dispensary employees from Massachusetts and Rhode Island join UFCW union as part of a national labor organizing wave. A unionization effort filed for 17 employees at the Curaleaf medical dispensary in Hanover, Mass., went all the way to Washington, D.C., before a final decision on the results of a mail-in election was made earlier this month. The majority of ballots had been challenged, some of which remained sealed in the final vote count. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 328, which represents more than 11,000 workers in a range of industries throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, filed for the Curaleaf Hanover union election April 20, 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ballots went out to the Hanover team in May, and the original vote count was June 26. That vote came back 5-2 in favor of joining the Local 328, excluding 10 challenged ballots, ....
February 2019 Best Performing Marijuana Stocks From Sean Williams: If it feels as if marijuana stocks can do no wrong of late, you’d be right. Since the year began, the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, the first-ever cannabis exchange-traded fund in Canada, has risen by 60%. Although gains in February were considerably more subdued relative to January, this popular ETF still tacked on an 8% gain last month. Among individual pot stocks, things weren’t nearly as bullish in February as they were in January, when you could have seemingly thrown a dart with a blindfold on and made money. Of the 50 marijuana stocks I screened, 24 fell last month, with 26 advancing. That’s a pretty even distribution. ....