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The Fine Art of Rolling Will Be Presented by Chef Victor Miller and Keiko Beatie

CULVER CITY, Calif. – December 4, 2018 /Canna Newswire/ – Love will not only be in the air but in the food when Mary Jane University’s High Dining presents its signature Sushi + Doobie Rolling Workshop on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm in Culver City. The student body will be immersed in the finer points of rolling both cannabis joints and sushi during this educational foodie workshop. Scheduled instructors are renown cannabis activist and author Keiko Beatie, and sushi Chef Victor Miller; live music from rapper MC Flow and DJ Jack Pharaoh also add cache to the curriculum. Tickets for this strictly 21+ event are available for the “Student Body” fee of $200 or the “Teacher’s Pet” fee of $250 per enrollment at www.highdining.club, and must be purchased in advance. No unregistered walk-ins will be admitted to this class!

High Dining is acclaimed for producing high culture, low-dose cannabis events w..

Patented online platform interactively connects people, businesses, and communities in the rapidly growing legal cannabis industry

WASHINGTON – December 6, 2018 /Canna Newswire/ – The Who’s Who in the Cannabis Industry (http://www.whoswhoincannabis.com) welcomed the latest cohort of cannabis experts and specialists to join the interactive, knowledge-sharing, and promotional platform for the legal cannabis industry.

The latest individuals selected to join the Who’s Who include:

Daniel Dellafosse, Attorney, from the Law Office of Daniel Dellafosse. Daniel is a bay area native. He provides corporate and business legal services to cannabis businesses in California. His compliance practice area focuses on local permitting and state licensing for all cannabis businesses. He is a cohort at the Bay Area Legal Incubator where provides legal services to equity applicants. He is an executive member of the Alameda County Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Section. Practices law in Northern Californ..

TORONTO – December 5, 2018 /Canna Newswire/ – Sproutly Canada, Inc. (CSE: SPR) (OTCQB: SRUTF) (FSE: 38G) is pleased to announce the hiring of Melise Panetta to the senior leadership team as Vice President of Sales and Marketing to focus on the Company’s branding, marketing and sales objectives of becoming a leading cannabis formulations company focused on beverages.

Melise Panetta most recently led the sales strategy as Director of Sales for SC Johnson, a privately held global consumer packaged goods company, responsible for delivering profitable category and brand growth for 200+ customers across multiple classes of trade including Sobeys, Save on Foods, London Drugs, and Federated Co-op among others. Prior to her role as Director of Sales, Melise was Head of Marketing with responsibilities including realigning their investment strategy behind brands, establishing their strategic net revenue framework, and delivering strong market share gains.

Previous to SC Johnson, Melise held rol..

DENVER – December 4, 2018 /Canna Newswire/ – C. E. Hutton, LLC, a minority-focused business development and management company in Denver, Colorado, today announced the release of the FIRST-EVER annual marketing analysis focused on companies owned by minorities in the cannabis industry.

“We are very excited and indeed proud to provide this first edition publication to readers in an effort to provide more insight, information and business intelligence to the marketplace,” Hutton said.

The company defines “Minorities” as all people of color, women, veterans, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ+ community.

“Clearly the challenges of minority business ownership continues in the industry and the Minority Report is intended to be a vehicle that shines a light on those challenges, as well as shining an even brighter one on the successes of entrepreneurs who are fearless and making things happen,” Hutton said.

The Minority Report is an 82-page marketing analysis that is available for pur..

NYC Based Cannabis Investment Firm Successful Fund I Raise, looks to Fund II

NEW YORK – November 27, 2018 /Canna Newswire/ – Altitude Investment Management, LLC (“Altitude”) announced today that it will close Fund I on November 30, 2018 with $30 million raised. Fund I commenced March 1, 2018 and is currently invested in 16 companies which emphasize the fund’s focus on investing in a diverse range of early-stage to growth companies supporting the fast-growing legal global cannabis industry. Altitude is led by John Brecker, Jon Trauben, Michael Goldberg, and Roderick Stephan. Collectively, the partners have over 100 years of fund investment management experience and have managed investor capital in the alternative asset management space for the majority of their careers.

“Over the past year we have watched the global legal cannabis market grow, change, and begin to mature,” says partner John Brecker. “At Altitude, we believe in the long-term growth of the industry––our portfolio strate..