Breaking News! Hello and welcome to another edition of the Crossroads Cannablog. I do apologize for the delay in any posts but life interfered and I was giving thought to where I'd like to take things here at Crossroads. More on that at a future date. For now, let's discuss some current events related to our community and culture. First up is a rather disturbing piece via The Daily Beast on the USCC (the US Cannabis Council) and what looks like a really corrupt "legalisation" lobbyist organisation that wants some special cutouts for themselves. As an emerging industry with sky-high revenue projections, lofty social-justice promises , and ground rules currently being written from scratch, no business in America prompts ready comparisons to Silicon Valley like legal cannabis . But though analysts project legal weed sales to balloon from $17.5 billion last year to $70 billion by 2028 —exponential growth fueled by the beginning of adult-use sales in East Coast