BETHEL – The Stoned Moose, soon to be Bethel’s first recreational marijuana store, won board approval last week in a 4-1 vote with a disqualified board member.

Members Dwayne Bennett, Jim Bennett, Carolyn Dunn and Meryl Kelly were in favor, with Laurie Winsor opposed and Cherie Thurston challenged as she recently sold a property owned by Mike and Jodi Everett, who will operate The Stoned Moose.

Mike and Jodi, who already run Moosehead Farms, a medical marijuana store just off Route 2 on Sunday River Road, hope to open the new store by mid-August.

The Stoned Moose will be on the same property as Moosehead Farms, but in a different building, as the state says recreational and medical marijuana cannot be distributed from the same building.

Work on the building began this week with the pouring of the foundations. The building will have an area of ​​320 square feet.

Everett expects to get approval for a retail license at this week’s board meeting.

The store will have the same address as Moosehead Farms at 22 Sunday River Road, Bethel.

ANN ARBOR, MI — The 50th anniversary of the Ann Arbor Hash Bash will be a classic marijuana fest honoring the event’s long history and ongoing activism, according to organizers.

“I’m so proud to say that this Hash Bash event is going back to its political roots,” said co-organizer Matt Dargay, a University of Michigan graduate social work student and president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at the UM.

“Hash Bash really started as a protest against the arrest and incarceration of someone in possession of marijuana,” Dargay said, referring to Ann Arbor poet and pot activist John Sinclair, who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for two joints. and was released shortly before the first Hash Bash took place on the UM Diag in April 1972, after Michigan’s criminal marijuana law was declared unconstitutional.

“That’s really where things started,” Dargay said. “And this time, to celebrate the 50th anniversary, the activism and advocacy angle will really be part of it.”

Organizers expect several thousand cannabis enthusiasts from across Michigan and beyond to be in attendance for the 51st Annual Gathering on the UM Diag at noon on April 2.

“I’m really excited to say that Hash Bash is back in person,” Dargay said. “It’s going to be a great day.”

Around 30 speakers are expected to take the stage for two hours, including U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell, Washtenaw County Attorney Eli Savit and numerous activists involved in the marijuana movement. The music will follow and the event will once again spill over to the Monroe Street Fair.

Co-host Jamie Lowell said he’s reserved a spot in the lineup for former host and emcee Adam Brook to introduce Sinclair, making sure people know their place in history.

“After all, Adam is the one who brought John Sinclair back into the 90s fold, and we really appreciate that and the work he did to animate for so many years there,” Lowell said. “It pays homage to culture and history and Adam is obviously a big part of that.”

In addition to the usual musical performances of Hash Bash by Tom Wall of Cosmic Knot and Ann Arbor blues rocker Laith Al-Saadi, who plays the national anthem on electric guitar, organizers promise plenty of advocacy around the plans for Marijuana legislation pending in the Michigan Legislature, including the John Sinclair Act introduced by State Representative Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor. And there will be a Criminal Record Erasing Booth set up to help people take steps to erase past marijuana convictions.

Now, more than three years after Michigan voters legalized recreational marijuana in the state, too many people are still incarcerated or living with the burden of criminal records due to their use of the cannabis plant, a said Lowell, who is involved with the Michigan Cannabis Freedom Coalition in addition to being the director of advocacy and social equity for Botanical Co., a Lansing-based marijuana retailer.

“We are a little frustrated with the very, very slow pace and lack of attention to helping get people out of jail who are there for what is legal now – most of them since when the governor came into office, even though she said she was going to help us get them out,” Lowell said. “It’s kind of frustrating in the community that it didn’t happen.”

Organizers also expect Hash Bash speakers to speak out against bills in the State House that they say would unfairly restrict the cultivation of medical marijuana by individual caregivers, reducing the number of plants they can grow from 72 to 24 and the number of patients they can serve from five to one. That would cede a lot of ground to grassroots individuals in the big-money cannabis industry, Dargay said.

“We really think these bills would make it harder for small producers to make a living,” he said. “And since cannabis sold by caregivers is not subject to sales and excise taxes, it tends to be less expensive than commercial marijuana, so that could actually impact some people’s ability to obtain medical marijuana without going to the black market.”

While there will be plenty of returning Hash Bash speakers, organizers say they haven’t lined up big-name celebrities like Tommy Chong, who has spoken in the past.

Hash Bash’s list of speakers, which is still being finalized, is mostly made up of those who have been active and really worked on behalf of the community, Lowell said.

“We were faced with big money interests trying to take away existing rights, really bad legislation,” he said. “And sometimes that legislation is even well-intentioned, but lawmakers and their decision-making process are so lacking in information that we’ve been forced to respond.”

Dargay said he got involved in drug policy reform and Hash Bash because he previously worked for a drug treatment agency.

“It was pretty early on in my job that I realized our country’s drug policy environment was just super screwed up,” he said. “There are a lot of aspects that run counter to the evidence of the relative harm of certain drugs versus the relative harm of incarceration and fines and imposing criminal sanctions on them.”

Given that Hash Bash has been celebrated virtually for the past two years during the pandemic, with the exception of a smoke protest led by Brook last year, organizers don’t know how many people will turn up as the event makes its full official return to an in-person setting for the 50th anniversary.

Dargay said he was told to expect around 5,000 people, while Lowell said it wouldn’t surprise him if there were up to 10,000, especially if the weather was good.

“It’s going to be a good one,” Lowell said.

Some people ask what the Hash Bash is for since marijuana is now legal and there’s no need to rally for it, Lowell said.

“Then some people think it will be the first time we can get together like this in a few years and there are a lot of people looking forward to doing it again,” he said, expressing his optimism. it will be a success.

“The approach in our mind is to put a typical Hash Bash and that could mean different things to different people,” he said. “I mean, obviously, if we were sitting here with Adam Brook right now, he would say it’s a smoke, it’s a protest against the man, who never changes, no matter. But I sort of see it as we’re paying homage to the legacy, paying homage to some of the historical perspective that surrounds this event.

“And then we’re going to focus on being kind of a pro-caregiver/patient, pro-individual rights gathering,” he said, mentioning plans to highlight ongoing activism. “In some ways it could be seen as anti-big-money interests trying to take control of cannabis, but we really want to be more positive about it and just the idea that we’re protecting rights in general. We don’t want to abandon the ground gained over the years by the tens of thousands of people who have worked on this for decades. We have come so far.

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The Old Saybrook (ZC) Zoning Commission will hold a hybrid public hearing on a proposed moratorium on marijuana regulation at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 4. If passed, the moratorium will give the commission more time to study the matter.

Earlier this year, Connecticut lawmakers passed a bill legalizing the state’s recreational use of marijuana by adults. From now on, it is up to local municipalities to interpret which regulations will be issued to control its sale in each municipality.

In Old Saybrook, the ZC opted for a moratorium route. City planner and zoning enforcer Chris Costa told Harbor News that a moratorium would prevent any applicant from applying to change the zoning or requesting the opening of a retail cannabis store while the commission is taking the time to study the matter further.

The moratorium would end in May 2022. Costa said the commission could take action before the moratorium ends.

Costa said that while the Department of Consumer Protection and the state worked out more details regarding cannabis sales, the ZC wanted to wait to make a decision. As more information becomes available, the ZC may then decide to revisit the matter during the moratorium.

Any regulations relating to the sale of marijuana at Old Saybrook are likely to be controversial. While there is a contingent that will be concerned if not outright opposed to any regulations that would allow a retail marijuana store to open, there are also people who are in favor of allowing the sale in town. .

The city has three choices when it comes to regulating cannabis. It can ban retail in town altogether, it can approve it with certain conditions, and it can allow it without regulation.

Under the bill passed by the legislature, there can only be one outlet for marijuana per 25,000 people. This means that only one store could open in Old Saybrook.

Over the past few weeks, the ZC has had several discussions about marijuana, and ZC members have expressed views that run the gamut. During the discussions, some members indicated that they would prefer an outright ban on marijuana services. Others have said that the uses and negative effects of marijuana are not drastically different from those of alcohol, so why should ZC prevent another business from opening in town, especially when auxiliary companies can benefit from it?

If allowed in town, Old Saybrook would receive a three percent tax on all sales; these funds must be used for a specific set of projects.

ZC President Robert Friedmann noted that in the past, ZC had approved two locations for medical marijuana dispensaries, although neither had received an approved business license. Friedmann said he and Costa have visited grow-out facilities in the past and talked about how tight security measures and corporate discretion are, to the point that people wouldn’t even know they were there.

Costa said that in conversations with towns in Massachusetts that have opened dispensaries, those towns said that there was initially a sharp increase in interest just in opening dispensaries, but that interest then stabilized after novelty waned and other cities opened clinics.

However, there are still concerns about the authorization of the retail sale of cannabis. There are fears that the company will drain police departments, negatively affect the city’s culture and send the wrong message to the city’s youth. Citing these reasons, the City of Clinton recently announced that it will seek an ordinance to ban the sale of marijuana to Clinton.

The ZC will assess the public sentiment at the public hearing and then go from there.

MAll investors are hot and cold with marijuana stocks, to say the least. These days, the hot part of that equation seems to favor multi-state operators (MSOs), the companies that run the dispensaries where consumers get their “legitimate†weed.

In this video by Motley Fool Live recorded July 16Long-time Fool collaborator Eric Volkman and Health and Cannabis bureau chief Corinne Cardina briefly discuss a segment of the pot market that is much lower on the temperature scale for investors.

Here’s the marijuana stock you’ve been waiting for
A little-known Canadian company has just unlocked what some experts believe is the key to profiting from the upcoming marijuana boom.

And make no mistake, it does happen.

Cannabis legalization is sweeping across North America – 15 states plus Washington, DC, have all legalized recreational marijuana in recent years, and full legalization arrived in Canada in October 2018.

And an under-the-radar Canadian business is about to explode because of this upcoming marijuana revolution.

Because a game-changing deal has just been struck between the Government of Ontario and this mighty company … and you must hear this story today if you’ve even considered investing in pot stocks. .

Just click here to get the full story now.

Learn more

Corinne Cardine: What about picks and shovels, how are they?

Eric Volkman: Not particularly good. They weren’t popular.

If we look at the two great games of pickax and shovel, we are talking GrowGeneration (NASDAQ: GRWG), which is a hydroponics retailer that just can’t stop acquiring assets, and Scotts Miracle Gro (NYSE: SMG), which is a more traditional piece that has crept into marijuana over the past couple of years. People seem to ignore them. I don’t necessarily think they should.

GrowGeneration is down. Again, 1% year-to-date while Scotts Miracle-Gro has slipped 11%. I don’t think it’s fair.

Corinne Cardina has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Eric Volkman does not have a position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns stock and recommends GrowGeneration Corp and Scotts Miracle-Gro. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

In the quest to change US cannabis laws, the House of Representatives has not been a big deal. The challenge has always come with the US Senate.

Last week, however, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveiled a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level that he wants to bring to the Senate. The bill already has the support of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

With the potential for major federal cannabis reform underway, is it time to stock up on marijuana stocks?

Image source: Getty Images.

Many potential winners

As you might expect, there are a lot of potential winners if marijuana is decriminalized federally in the United States. Canadian cannabis producers have long wanted to penetrate the huge market south of the border. However, they cannot do so and list their shares on the major US stock exchanges while cannabis remains illegal at the federal level.

If this roadblock is removed, Canopy growth (NASDAQ: CGC) stands out as a particularly likely beneficiary. Canopy already has an option to acquire a US-based cannabis operator Area of ​​assets. It has a major partner (and largest shareholder) based in the United States – Constellation brands. Canopy could be the first to enter the US market if the bill proposed by Senator Schumer becomes law.

Don’t overlook the opportunities for companies currently operating in the United States, however. Cresco Laboratories (OTC: CRLBF), for example, ranks among the most valued multi-state cannabis operators. One of the reasons Cresco shares are cheap compared to most Canadian pot stocks is that the company cannot list its shares on a major US stock exchange.

It’s a similar story for Trulieve Cannabis (OTC: TCNNF), one of the largest cannabis operators in the United States. If Trulieve traded at the same price / sell multiple as Canopy Growth, its market cap would reach $ 10.3 billion, significantly more than its current market cap of $ 6 billion.

The Senate snag

Senator Schumer’s support for federal cannabis reform removes a major obstacle from the past. When the GOP controlled the Senate, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would not even have considered introducing a bill for major cannabis reform in the Senate.

However, there is still a big potential problem in the Senate. Any bill before the House can be delayed by a single senator who chooses to use filibuster. As a result, Senator Schumer needs 60 votes to pass his bill. It is not clear that these votes can be garnered at the moment.

The Senate is divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans (including two independents who align with the Democrats). This means that 10 GOP votes would be needed to avoid an obstruction if all Democrats and Independents voted as a bloc.

Polls show the American public supports cannabis reform. Thirty-five states have legalized medical and / or recreational marijuana. However, there is no guarantee that a sufficient number of Senators will vote with the views of their constituents on this issue.

Do not back up the truck just yet

With such political uncertainty in the Senate, investors are unlikely to back down and stock up on marijuana stocks just yet. This does not mean, however, that there are no individual actions worthy of close examination.

I’ve mentioned two cannabis stocks before that seem like good choices no matter what happens in Washington, DC Cresco Labs continues to grow in its core markets. He also moved to new states including Florida and Ohio.

Trulieve already dominates the medical cannabis market in Florida. The company is poised for a bigger and better future with its impending acquisition of Harvest Health and leisure.

Another stock that I particularly like is Innovative industrial properties (NYSE: IIPR). The company is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on the US medical cannabis market. In some ways, the IIP might be better off if federal cannabis reform is not passed. However, even if the proposed legislation manages to garner enough votes for victory, I still believe that the IIP will be able to generate solid growth for years to come.

Here’s the marijuana stock you’ve been waiting for
A little-known Canadian company has just unlocked what some experts believe is the key to profiting from the upcoming marijuana boom.

And make no mistake, it does happen.

Cannabis legalization is sweeping across North America – 15 states plus Washington, DC, have all legalized recreational marijuana in recent years, and full legalization arrived in Canada in October 2018.

And an under-the-radar Canadian business is about to explode because of this upcoming marijuana revolution.

Because a game-changing deal has just been struck between the Government of Ontario and this mighty corporation … and you must hear this story today if you’ve even considered investing in pot stocks. .

Just click here to get the full story now.

Learn more

Keith Speights owns shares of Innovative Industrial Properties. The Motley Fool owns shares and recommends Constellation Brands, Cresco Labs Inc., Innovative Industrial Properties and Trulieve Cannabis Corp. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

It’s harvest season and that includes one of Michigan’s newest crops, marijuana.

Michigan’s recreational marijuana industry is less than two years old, but already surpasses many other states. This includes producers. Since marijuana is still not federally legal, cultivating it in a state and crossing state borders to sell it is illegal.

“The stigma is gone now,†said Tom Buggia, owner and farmer of 420 Medz near Coleman.

Buggia has spent the past six years building and cultivating marijuana farms in Washington state, but red tape and weather issues in the west have brought him back to his home state.

That’s where he is now, cultivating one of the last remaining outdoor marijuana farms in Michigan.

“Indoor makes a premium product, it’s a very expensive product, “said Buggia,” With a big barrier to entry to get in because it takes $ 10-15 million to actually build a facility.

Marijuana grown indoors can sell for three times as much, but can cost 20 times as much to grow. Growing up as a gardener, he looked around and realized that plants can grow very well outdoors.

“Tomatoes and peppers? I really didn’t see any of these guys doing warehouses in Seattle with lights, â€Buggia said.

One of the biggest issues when trying to decide where to plant your roots for your marijuana farm is not soil makeup or climate, but where it’s going to be accepted. Many townships and communities have pulled out of the industry, so producers need to find one like Wise Township. The township benefits greatly, they made pay $ 225,000 to four producers in the township.

“Last week we had a group of about 40 and 50 other townships that Wise Township asked to come and tour and I organized the tour,†Buggia said. the smell and it’s not that bad.

With a history in commercial construction, tall fencing, irrigation installation and security systems were the easy part for Buggia. The success of his 12-acre, 9,000-plant operation was based on Michigan weather and so far, in his first summer, it has been a success.

A success that could lead to even more growth in the future.

“There are still 40 acres behind us that are part of this property that we can expand,†said Buggia, “We’ll just see how it goes. I’m not planning anything this far. Two weeks is a long time for me.

Anti-mask remedy?

Last week I told you about a group called “The Mendocino Patriots” that don’t have any masks, face protests in Ukiah stores that require customers to wear C-19 masks.

These “patriots” are opposed to state and county health ordinances requiring “universal masking” in “all indoor public places.”

A reader sent me an email suggesting that all anti-maskers and anti-vaxers should “be banned from receiving hospital treatment if they contract Covid as they are most likely responsible for the spread of the pandemic to others who follow the rules “.

What do you think, is it called poetic justice?

Or is this a desperate time calling for desperate action?

Seriously, most anti-vaccines that end up in hospital with C-19 or some variant quickly convert to true believer status and urge others not to follow their regrettable example and go get the Jab.

Watch out for weed wishes

Wait a second while I tune the smallest violin in the world so that I can play the smallest but saddest tune in the world.

This sonata is dedicated to all giant pot producers and companies who have released public relations statements, letters to the editor, opinion pieces and media platform propaganda regarding their impending demise due to alleged draconian regulatory violations. scope of national and local weed ordinances.

The Mr. and Mrs. Bigs of the pot industry are now demanding that state and local ganja officials send in the cavalry to rescue them because, as Flo Kana executives recently announced, “we don’t let’s take more. “

What Flo Kana is not going to put up with anymore is paying her taxes under state and local pot ordinances.

They say they are going bankrupt, downsizing and digging in, all because of the monopoly economic influences of the illegal and evil black market that deals exclusively with tax-free weed.

Ipso-facto, the Bigs must be relieved of their overloaded tax burden.

As Sonoma County-based CannaCraft, one of North Bay’s largest cannabis companies, put it in an opinion piece last week: “It stinks to be in the cannabis industry in Canada. California right now. We’re not just talking metaphorically either. Four years after cannabis advocates and workers celebrated the opening of the world’s largest legal recreational marijuana market, flawed licensing and taxation policies have created an emporium of dysfunction. Today, hundreds of California cannabis growers are choosing to let crops rot in the fields rather than risk a losing crop or return to the illicit market.

OK, I’ll make it short.

Here is what you need to know.

All of the following is what I have written and talked about over the past five years, when state and local governments began regulating cannabis.

State and local governments have been motivated to enact pot ordinances because of the allure of easy money – that is, greed – in the form of taxes and fees.

Producers were motivated by the lure of easy money, i.e. greed, in the form of cash income.

As I have said for many years to anyone calling for the legalization of marijuana, be careful what you wish for. Because with legalization comes regulation, and with regulation comes taxes, code enforcement, licensing, inspections, and increased oversight by regulatory and enforcement bodies.

And now they are finding that money is not that easy to make, and it also has all kinds of consequences, including those that are unintentional. For example, the County Cannabis Ordinance experience has attracted and continues to attract unwanted foreigners, rogue growers, cartels, deadly violence and environmental degradation so persists that the North Coast Water Board issued an emergency advisory saying our area is “inundated” with marijuana and the watersheds and water sources are seriously degraded.

These are the foundations of any regulatory system and framework: There is a coherent system of regulations and the means to enforce them. They fit like a hand and a glove. You cannot have one without the other. Yet this is the very situation this county has found itself in since the Cannabis Ordinance was enacted nearly five years ago. The hand and the glove never fit.

From an economic point of view, without law enforcement, overproduction of product occurs, which prevents people and businesses from moving the product to the so-called legal market. This scenario leaves only one viable alternative. If you want to pay your bills and somehow survive, you enter the black market.

Assuming this county one day gets serious about law enforcement, I estimated it would take five years to clean up all the illegal crops.

As you will find out in a second, it looks like my cleaning estimate could be way off the mark,

Militating against this, the county simply does not have the appropriate resources, funding, or the political will “can do” to administer and enforce any cannabis ordinance.

There is also another stupendous tip regarding the likelihood of making a workable and achievable weed ordinance.

Just recently, Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall told the Louisville Courier Journal that there were as many as 10,000 illegal crops in his county. He said he’s trying to target the Worst 100, which is all his little force can handle in a year.

“I’m fighting a dragon with a needle,†Kendall said.

Based on Kendall’s estimate that targeting 100 is increasing per year on a total of 10,000 illegal sites, it will only take 100 years to get the job done.

Now, that sounds like a workable plan.

Remember, when it comes to legalizing weeds, be careful what you want.

Jim Shields is editor and publisher of the Mendocino County Observer, [email protected], longtime District Director of the Laytonville County Watershed District, and chair of the Laytonville Area Municipal Advisory Council. Listen to his radio show “This and That” every Saturday at noon on KPFN 105.1 FM, also broadcast live: http://www.kpfn.org.

Shoppers swinging through a popular antique and farmers’ market this weekend in Berks County may find themselves in the midst of a cultural revolution.

The Pennsylvania Cannabis Fall Marketplace is back for a third year at Renninger’s Antique and Farmers’ Market, 740 Noble St. just outside of Kutztown in Maxatawny Township. It’s free, open to the public and family, and pet-friendly, the organizers say on the event’s Facebook page. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The event comes the same week that two lawmakers in western Pennsylvania unveiled new legislation to decriminalize, regulate and tax adult recreational marijuana statewide. The proposal was not immediately listed on the state legislature’s website, but it will be labeled House Bill 2050, said state officials Jake Wheatley and Dan Frankel, both D- Allegheny.

It is unclear whether House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, will propose a vote in the 2021-2022 legislative session. Cutler said two years ago that he opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana for adult use, “in the midst of an opioid epidemic.” His point of view had not changed a year ago, his opposition shared by Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman of R-Center County, pennlive.com reported. Democratic Governor Tom Wolf is a strong supporter of legalization.

The Democrats’ bill would allow anyone aged 21 and over to purchase and consume marijuana recreationally in Pennsylvania.

The proposal would also provide for direct participation in the cannabis industry by individuals in communities that have been disproportionately affected by the criminalization of marijuana, and by small, diverse and disadvantaged businesses, thus laying the groundwork for improvement. of social and economic equity for the individuals and communities who have been and continue to be affected by the criminalization of marijuana, lawmakers said in a press release Tuesday.

“I am once again championing efforts to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use in Pennsylvania,†said Wheatley, who first introduced similar legislation in 2017, to pass the initiative.

“Not only would it create much-needed jobs and income, but it contains important social justice provisions that would eliminate the aggressive enforcement of simple possession of marijuana laws in marginalized communities.”

HB 2050 would also establish several grant programs that would benefit small businesses, minorities, and women in Pennsylvania. These programs would be funded by revenue from the sales tax on marijuana. Ultimately, this legislation would have lasting impacts on economic and social justice in the Commonwealth.

“The failures of past cannabis policies have resulted in the worst possible worlds: insufficient public health protection, aggressive enforcement that disproportionately harms communities of color and zero income for this Commonwealth,†Frankel said. , who is the Speaker of the House Minority. Health Committee. “With this legislation, Pennsylvania can begin to repair historic damage and reap the benefits of an evidence-based approach to regulating the cultivation, trade, and use of cannabis for adults over the age of 21.”

If passed, Pennsylvania will join 16 other states, including neighbors New York and New Jersey, in legalizing recreational marijuana for adult use, lawmakers have said.

This weekend’s Cannabis Festival features over 250 vendors, live music and more. Paid roundtables are scheduled for adult cannabis use on Saturday and medical use on Sunday, including a review of the Pennsylvania medical marijuana program established under legislation enacted by Wolf in April 2016 .

Founded in Scranton in 2015, the Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival first moved to Kutztown for a fall 2019 event, and a fall event also took place in 2020. A spring version returned to Renninger last April. following a cancellation in 2020 due to the coronavirus.

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Kurt Bresswein can be reached at [email protected].