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Acreage Holdings controversies

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  1. 2020

    Massachusetts regulators fine three cannabis companies

    Fine or penalty

    The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission fined three cannabis companies. Garden Remedies was fined $200,000 over pesticide use and falsified invoices, Healthy Pharms was fined $350,000 over pesticide use across several periods, and Acreage Holdings was fined $250,000 over licensing applications that exceeded the allowed ownership or control limit. Garden Remedies said it fired the employees involved, while Healthy Pharms' parent company said it corrected the violations and implemented preventive procedures.

    Company response

    • Personnel action — Garden Remedies Inc.

      Garden Remedies said in a statement that it fired the employees involved — whose actions were unknown to the executive team.

    • Remediation — 4Front Ventures

      “Once the company understood the violations, we worked quickly to correct them and have implemented procedures to prevent them from happening again,” said Leo Gontmakher, CEO of Healthy Pharms parent company 4Front Ventures, said in a statement.

    Source excerpt

    • The Cannabis Control Commission levied the fines against Garden Remedies Inc.; Healthy Pharms Inc.; and Acreage Holdings Inc., according to The Telegram & Gazette.
    • The Botanist, owned by Acreage Holdings, Inc., was fined $250,000 for going forward with applications for licensure while trying to own or have a controlling interest in more than the allowed maximum of three stores.
    • Garden Remedies Inc., which operates a recreational and medical dispensary in Marlborough, was fined $200,000 for using pesticides and trying to cover up their use by falsifying invoices.
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