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CANNTRUST CLASS ACTION SUIT APPROVED

A group of law firms has had its class-action suit against CannTrust approved by Ontario Superior Court Justice J. Hainey. Among the law firms is celebrity litigator Marie Henein’s company Henein Hutchinson.
Canada.com, National Post

  • The suit is related to Canntrust‘s equity offering in May of last year (underwritten by major investment banks, among them RBC Dominion Securities, Canaccord Genuity, and Jefferies Securities. ).
  • The suit is related to Canntrust‘s equity offering in May of last year (underwritten by major investment banks).
  • The four investors who lodged the suit argue former Canntrust CEO Peter Aceto and other executives misrepresented the company by claiming it had all licensing necessary to grow product, at a time when CannTrust was growing product in unlicensed rooms).
    Investment Executive

Quick Hits

  1. Norfolk, Ontario will buy a drone in order to fly over properties and determine whether illicit cannabis is being grown on site.
    Simcoe Reformer
  2. If you get pulled over in Ontario with cannabis secured in a fastened, closed bag “not otherwise readily available to any person in the vehicle or boat,” the police can’t ticket you. But that hasn’t stopped them, in some places.
    Twitter—Harrison Jordan