Dedham Savings Launches Cannabis Banking
Dedham Savings has launched a cannabis banking business, offering deposit accounts to licensed cannabis-related businesses in Massachusetts.
Dedham Savings has launched a cannabis banking business, offering deposit accounts to licensed cannabis-related businesses in Massachusetts.
The chairman of the Cannabis Control Commission raised concerns Thursday with what he said are “predatory financing deals” being offered by private lenders to minority marijuana entrepreneurs, and urged state legislators to address the issue by setting up a public lender.
Rather than keep the marijuana banking business it acquired bybuying Century Bank, Boston-based Eastern Bank has decided to transfer the business unit – but not to one of the banks already operating in the space.
The New York Stock Exchange’s only publicly-traded cannabis real estate company has agreed to invest an additional $8 million into a Holliston marijuana production facility in a deal with operator PharmaCann LLC
A 150-year-old brick mill in Holyoke could soon become a hub for Massachusetts’ burgeoning marijuana industry following a $3.2 million sale.
AmeriCann is beginning construction on its Massachusetts Medical Cannabis Center in Freetown, which will manufacture and process marijuana products for the expanding Bay State medical and recreational market.
A vacant industrial building in Newburyport has been acquired by an Ipswich company and is in permitting to open a cannabis cultivation facility.
Denver-based AmeriCann Inc. has selected Braintree-based Campanelli Construction as general contractor for its 1 million-square-foot Massachusetts Medical Cannabis Center in Freetown.
Construction of a 12,000-square-foot medical marijuana cultivation and dispensing facility has begun at 1050 Elm St. in Bridgewater.