This Week In Marijuana Business News for the week ended Oct. 18, 2019, with host Maggie Cowee.

Headlines include:

• Exclusive: US retail sales of CBD may increase 133% in 2019, surpass $10 billion by 2024
• Colorado's largest cannabis grower loses millions of dollars in early freeze; supply disruption expected
• New California laws allow some marijuana firms to deduct expenses on state returns, help normalize MJ as ag commodity
• Cannabis advertising firm Weedmaps cuts 100-plus jobs in response to slow adult-use market rollouts
• Buying cannabis licenses on secondary market more of a sure bet than applying for state business permits
• Report: Draft law to legalize recreational cannabis in Mexico handed to Senate commissions
• Cannabis businesses invest CA$700 million in Atlantic Canada, report estimates
• France creates committee to draft rules for medical cannabis trial
• Chart: How medical cannabis programs fare in states with recreational markets
• October issue of Marijuana Business Magazine

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