On the cusp of the cannabis industry’s annual celebration of consumption and culture, another “C” is taking center stage this year.

With COVID-19 now affecting citizens globally in unprecedented ways, I wanted to get a sense of what its implications could be on 4/20.

Last year’s events generated $135 million in legal cannabis sales including April 19 ($90 and $5 million respectively).

What will be in store this year for the traditional “social” celebration as opposed to the “social distancing” non-celebration we face this year?

I turned to my go to “Ecannabist”, Roy Bingham of BDS Analytics to help me find some answers.

MM: Roy, lets take a look at where we are. Imagining COVID-19 never arrived, what were the most material trends you were seeing, having just finished the first quarter of the year? CLICK for complete article

“Since August 2019, ProPublica has tracked more than 10,000 suspected fake Twitter accounts involved in a coordinated influence campaign with ties to the Chinese government.”  In August and September, Twitter suspended 5,000 Chinese state controlled accounts and banned around 200,000 non-active accounts.

– Propublica.org

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has condemned US President Donald Trump’s order signed this week, which encourages citizens to mine the moon and other celestial bodies with commercial purposes.

The government body likened the policy to colonialism and said it “hardly sets the countries to fruitful cooperation.”

“There have already been examples in history when one country decided to start seizing territories in its interest — everyone remembers what came of it,” Roscosmos’ deputy general director for international cooperation, Sergey Saveliev, said in a statement.

Trump’s order classifies outer space as a “legally and physically unique domain of human activity” instead of a “global commons,” paving the way for mining the moon without any sort of international treaty….CLICK for complete article