This Week In Marijuana Business News for the week ended May 3, 2019, with host Jill Reddish.

Headlines include:

• Cannabis vaporizer company Pax Labs raises benchmark $420 million in funding
• Cannabis group Curaleaf to acquire Cura Partners for CA$1.27 billion
• Moosehead, Sproutly Canada to launch cannabis-infused beverages
• Canadian marijuana firm Canopy Growth set to build NY hemp facility this summer
• High Times parent to close share offering; cannabis publication still eyes Nasdaq
• Marijuana investor grants Harvard, MIT $9 million to study MMJ
• Germany authorizes medical cannabis shipments from Latin America for testing, paving way for future opportunities
• On deck in Denmark – cultivation and export: Q&A with Cannabis Denmark CEO Rikke Jakobsen
• Kentucky hemp company researching cultivation in space
• Federal judge allows landmark marijuana patent suit to proceed
• Chart: New Jersey medical cannabis patients to triple by 2022, requiring at least 15 more growers
• Oregon advances bill to hold off issuing adult-use cannabis grow licenses for two years
• Iowa bill to expand state's medical cannabis market headed to governor
• Two more unlicensed L.A. marijuana shops shuttered by officials
• Colorado lawmakers approve marijuana bill to attract outside investors; Colorado legislators OK medical cannabis as opioid alternative
• Missouri to license 60 medical marijuana growers, 190-plus dispensaries

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