Marijuana Business Magazine October 2019

October 2019 | mjbizdaily.com 25 Brewing are expected to debut by the end of the year, with infused beverages following shortly after. The two companies will also have a joint venture in the infused beverage category. Steep Hill Expands Into Oklahoma Steep Hill , a California-based provider of analytical testing services for the cannabis industry, is partnering with Elite Element Testing Laboratory to expand into Oklahoma’s growing medical marijuana market. Kandice Faulkenberry, the CEO of Steep Hill Oklahoma, will open the lab with Dr. Chris Orendorff, a board-certified family physician in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. Cannabition Joining Planet 13 SuperStore Planet 13 Holdings , a vertically integrated Nevada cannabis company, announced that it has signed a five-year lease with the interactive Cannabition Cannabis Museum . Under the agreement, Cannabition will be part of the Las Vegas Cannabis Entertainment Complex (“The Superstore”), with an anticipated opening in 2020. Larry Scheffler, co-CEO of Planet 13, said “Cannabition’s multilevel immersive cannabis art museum fits perfectly with the SuperStore mission to create an interactive and differentiated cannabis- based experience.” Denver Law Firm Creates Hemp Group Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck , a Denver law firm and lobbying giant, said it has created a marijuana and industrial hemp industry group. The firm launched the group to focus on marijuana and industrial hemp as they become more “mainstream,” according to a news release. Trilogene Seeds Teams With N.G. Heimos Greenhouse Hemp seed breeders Trilogene Seeds of Denver and Illinois greenhouse company N.G. Heimos Greenhouse Corp. announced a joint partnership. N.G. Heimos has more than 1.5 million square feet of greenhouse space. In 2019, Trilogene planted 1.3 million feminized hemp seeds in the United States. The new alliance will increase production to more than 100 million seeds by June 2020.