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Its government is fighting the federal home-grow mandate, its landlords want the right to ban cannabis, and its top-ranking officials are peddling easily disproven lies. What is Quebec’s problem?

Arkansas took the first step toward launching its medical marijuana program, as state regulators named the five businesses they intend to license to cultivate cannabis.

“In order to have regulation, an agency has to have enough resources to be effective at enforcement of the regulations,” the Deschutes County sheriff said. “Oregon does not have this.”

Rep. Scott Slater expressed his concerns about the large number of cultivators, adding that without an adult-use market, some cultivators are doomed to fail.

Less than two weeks before legal sales are set to launch, California regulators have begun accepting applications for cannabis cultivation licenses.

Under strict new water rules in California, cannabis farmers who haven’t thought through their water use could be left out to dry.

The abrupt shift comes on the heels of costly, intensive lobbying on behalf of some of the state’s most powerful cannabis businesses.

In this super-sized post-Thanksgiving roundup, read reactions to Jeff Sessions’ ongoing attack on legal cannabis, Anthony Bourdain educating the masses on proper joint rolling, and more.

The state rounded out the list of 24 companies authorized to produce medicinal crops under a new system expected to go live by September.

“This is an opportunity we won’t see again,” says Cronos CEO Michael Gorenstein. “I won’t say once in a lifetime but in multiple lifetimes.”