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Weedmaps Launches Wholesale Cannabis Marketplace

PRESS RELEASE WM Exchange to Provide Secure, Transparent Digital Transactions to Licensed Wholesale Buyers and Sellers of Cannabis Products IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Weedmaps today announced the launch of WM Exchange, a digital marketplace where licensed cannabis brands, distributors and retailers…

Weedmaps Appoints New Chief Executive Officer Doug Francis steps aside as CEO to serve as Chairman; President Chris Beals to Assume Role as CEO

PRESS RELEASE Doug Francis steps aside as CEO to serve as Chairman; President Chris Beals to Assume Role as CEO IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Weedmaps today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has appointed Chris Beals as Chief Executive Officer, effective March…

10 Questions With Chris Beals, Penn Grad Building the ‘Google of Marijuana’

It’s 4/20...the unofficial holiday celebrating the biggest illegal (yet legal) drug known to man: marijuana. This year’s high holiday is even more timely since Pennsylvania became the 24th state to legalize the plant for medical use just this week. The…