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The day's stories share a subject: the administrative machinery that decides who ends up holding what. Vireo Growth is buying 25 dispensaries out of The Cannabist Company's court-supervised wind-down while the seller's Denver grow prepares layoff notices. Oklahoma's answer to lab shopping, a state reference laboratory, is still working through accreditation three years after lawmakers ordered it. Nebraska's commission set its licensing fees and extended a deadline nobody was meeting, and in Menominee, Michigan, a judge's ruling just made the city's ninth and final dispensary license the most valuable piece of paper in town.
🔁 Vireo buys the wind-down
🧪 Oklahoma's referee, in training
💵 Nebraska's price of entry
🏪 Menominee's ninth license
Who will guard the guards themselves?
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