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BIG BANKS RETURN TO SECTOR

Organigram and Valens each announced deals with major Canadian banks, a signal some financial institutions are returning to the sector.

The country’s major banks have been uneasy with the sector, and many were humiliated last summer when the CannTrust scandal broke mere months after major banks invested in the company.
Financial Post

Quick Hits

  1. Santé Cannabis co-founder Erin Prosk again criticized Alberta researchers for announcing MED research on COVID-19 that has no funding and no clinical trial. Prosk argued, “We have a chronic pain crisis, opioid crisis, mental health crisis and an elder care crisis- all with better evidence for cannabis treatments [than COVID-19].”
    GrowthOp, Twitter–@erinprosk

  2. Lawyer Harrison Jordan presented a “roadmap to cannabis sanity” in Canada.
    Twitter–@harjord