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Cision Canada
a day ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Trulieve Launches "Roll-Up for Justice" Campaign to Support Mission [Green]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 2, 2025 /CNW/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the U.S., today announced the "Roll-Up for Justice" campaign to support Mission [Green], a national initiative to support individuals disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition. Throughout June and July, Trulieve customers in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, and Maryland can support Mission [Green] by rolling up purchases to the nearest dollar. "We're thankful for Trulieve's support of Mission [Green] and our fight to free those still paying the price for outdated cannabis laws," said Weldon Angelos, founder of Mission [Green]. "Together, we can turn spare change into real change." Angelos, a former music producer sentenced to 55 years in prison for selling less than $1,000 of cannabis in 2003, founded Mission [Green] to provide relief for those negatively impacted by cannabis prohibition through clemency and expungement efforts, commissary support, and advocacy for legislative reform. "Weldon's personal story illustrates the urgent need for cannabis reform," said Trulieve's Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "We are proud to support Mission [Green]'s efforts through the Roll-Up for Justice campaign." To learn more about the campaign, please visit About Mission [Green] Mission [Green] is a national initiative powered by The Weldon Project, which was created to support individuals disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition. The Weldon Project was founded by Weldon Angelos, a former music producer sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense. After receiving a full pardon from President Trump in 2020, Weldon works tirelessly towards criminal justice reform and second-chance advocacy. About Trulieve Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Investor Contact Christine Hersey, Vice President of Investor Relations +1 (424) 202-0210 [email protected] Media Contact Phil Buck, APR, Corporate Communications Manager +1 (406) 370-6226 [email protected] SOURCE Trulieve Cannabis Corp.
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Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Trulieve Launches "Roll-Up for Justice" Campaign to Support Mission [Green]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 2, 2025 /CNW/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the U.S., today announced the "Roll-Up for Justice" campaign to support Mission [Green], a national initiative to support individuals disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition. Throughout June and July, Trulieve customers in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, and Maryland can support Mission [Green] by rolling up purchases to the nearest dollar. "We're thankful for Trulieve's support of Mission [Green] and our fight to free those still paying the price for outdated cannabis laws," said Weldon Angelos, founder of Mission [Green]. "Together, we can turn spare change into real change." Angelos, a former music producer sentenced to 55 years in prison for selling less than $1,000 of cannabis in 2003, founded Mission [Green] to provide relief for those negatively impacted by cannabis prohibition through clemency and expungement efforts, commissary support, and advocacy for legislative reform. "Weldon's personal story illustrates the urgent need for cannabis reform," said Trulieve's Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "We are proud to support Mission [Green]'s efforts through the Roll-Up for Justice campaign." To learn more about the campaign, please visit About Mission [Green]Mission [Green] is a national initiative powered by The Weldon Project, which was created to support individuals disproportionately impacted by cannabis prohibition. The Weldon Project was founded by Weldon Angelos, a former music producer sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for a nonviolent cannabis offense. After receiving a full pardon from President Trump in 2020, Weldon works tirelessly towards criminal justice reform and second-chance advocacy. About TrulieveTrulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Facebook: @Trulieve Instagram: @Trulieve_X: @Trulieve Investor ContactChristine Hersey, Vice President of Investor Relations+1 (424) Media ContactPhil Buck, APR, Corporate Communications Manager+1 (406) View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Trulieve Cannabis Corp. View original content to download multimedia:
Hindustan Times
5 days ago
- Science
- Hindustan Times
Snakes may have once faced a vicious enemy: the humble ant
Some snakes are well-known for injecting prey with venom from their fangs. What's less well known is that they produce toxic stuff at the other end of their bodies, too. Located at the base of the tail in venomous and nonvenomous snakes alike are glands that generate foul-smelling secretions. The point of these glands has long been a mystery, but new research suggests they could stem from a time when snakes were much less impressive and needed to protect themselves from a vicious enemy: the humble ant. Scientists have known since at least the 1960s that some tail secretions are bug-repellent. One snake, a teeny, worm-like thing called the Texas blindsnake, which when coiled is no larger than a 50-pence piece, smears itself in its tail poison when raiding ant and termite nests for food, for example. Yet until now it has been unclear why all snake species, even those that seemingly never interact with ants, produce this noxious concoction. To get to the bottom of the issue, Paul Weldon of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Virginia and Robert Vander Meer of the Centre for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology in Florida collected secretions from snakes on all family branches of the serpentine evolutionary tree. The collection included a boa constrictor, a middle American burrowing python, a ball python, a timber rattlesnake, a king cobra and a unicolour cribo (a large, nonvenomous snake known as the 'lord of the forest'). The team then set up enclosures with red fire ants that have large underground colonies and make aggressive stinging attacks on intruders. In one chamber, the team allowed the stench of the snake gunk to waft in, to see if it would put the ants off. But they entered the chamber undeterred. Drs Weldon and Vander Meer next questioned whether directly interacting with the secretions would have an effect. They presented the ants with both a droplet of ordinary water and a droplet of water tainted with 200 microlitres of snake secretion. Though the ants readily encircled and drank from the ordinary water droplets, they rarely even approached the tainted droplets. Fascinated, the researchers then tested placing tiny amounts of secretions from four different species directly on a small handful of unlucky ants. No matter which snake provided the poison, the ants almost always became paralysed and half usually died within four hours. The researchers interpret these findings, reported recently in the Science of Nature, a journal, to mean that tail secretions from snakes probably evolved for insect defence long ago. Since both ants and snakes occupied subterranean environments during the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, Drs Weldon and Vander Meer propose that the secretion appeared in the earliest snakes, which were probably similar to the modern Texas blindsnake. It would allow them to respond to angry ants defending themselves from attack or predatory ants looking for their next meal. As for why formidable snakes like king cobras still produce these chemicals, the team believes that they could have come to serve a dual purpose. Past work in other labs shows that carnivorous mammals steer clear of meat streaked with snake-tail secretions. Since carnivorous mammals evolved millions of years after snakes, there is little chance that pressure from mammal predators encouraged the rise of the adaptation. What is more likely is that this built-in insecticide, just by happenstance, tasted so terrible to mammals that it put them off eating snakes. When you have no limbs, you might as well make both ends count. Curious about the world? To enjoy our mind-expanding science coverage, sign up to Simply Science, our weekly subscriber-only newsletter. Get 360° coverage—from daily headlines to 100 year archives.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Multiple agencies respond to large fire in Weldon
DEWITT COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — Two buildings are a 'total loss' after a fire in DeWitt County over the weekend. Crews with Weldon Fire and Rescue responded to a fire on Friends Creek Road. When they arrived, they found a collapsed barn completely engulfed by flames. A large machine shed next to it was also on fire, and had partially collapsed. Saturday night fire in Tolono under investigation Photos courtesy of Sarah Reynolds The Village of Weldon brought in their backhoe to knock down the remaining structure, due to damage on the shed. Weldon Fire said there were several campers nearby, as well as other outlying structures. But, the fire crews attacked the fire from outside, keeping the blaze from the other structures. While the two buildings involved were a complete loss, no one was hurt or displaced from the fire. Clinton, Deland, Maroa, Argenta, Cisco, Wapella, and Kenney fire crews, along with Dewitt County EMS, Dewitt County EMA, Dewitt County Sheriff's Department, Terry Followell, and the Red Cross assisted in the emergency response. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Chicago Tribune
24-04-2025
- Science
- Chicago Tribune
Flint Lake weeds harming fish population, DNR biologist says
Invasive weeds are so bad at Flint Lake on Valparaiso's north side that during last year's Department of Natural Resources fish management survey, the DNR had to stop two or three times to clean off its boat's propellers, biologist Courtney Weldon said. Fragmentation, chopping it up, is what spreads the problematic plant. 'If you've ever boated through them, you understand how a bass feels,' she said. Weldon, the DNR's fisheries biologist for 14 northwestern Indiana counties, said Eurasian watermilfoil, the only nonnative aquatic vegetation in Flint Lake, was one of the two most abundant species. She explained the results of last year's survey of Flint Lake at a Valparaiso Chain of Lakes Watershed Group program on Monday. 'Doing a treatment for Eurasian milfoil could be beneficial,' Weldon said. By removing the invasive plant, water quality would improve and fish could survive more easily. Allowing sunlight to penetrate deeper into the lake is beneficial for photosynthesis, which releases oxygen into the water. Flint Lake's habitable zones for fish – water with sufficient oxygen – don't go as deep as they should for a glacial lake, she said. Also contributing to the spread of aquatic vegetation in Flint Lake is fertilizer runoff by lawns adjacent to the lake, Chain of Lakes Watershed Group President Walt Breitinger said. 'All of the glacial lakes were phosphorous-limited, and a little of it goes a long way,' Weldon said. Sediment also runs into the lake, making it more shallow and reducing the clarity of the water. Referring to northern pike in the lake, 'I'm expecting that most of your large individuals aren't making it through the summer,' Weldon said. Bluegill in the lake aren't growing as fast as might be expected, either. 'What's coming in from your watershed plays a big role in how your lake is doing,' Weldon said. 'Doing a treatment for Eurasian milfoil could be beneficial,' she said. That's a tricky issue, too. The milfoil is becoming more resistant to the chemical most commonly used to treat it. And the herbicide used should be specific to milfoil so it doesn't endanger the native plants. 'Anytime you damage these plants, you're killing hundreds of thousands of babies,' Weldon said. Smaller fish often feed among the plants and hide from predators there. Gizzard shad, the second most abundant fish species, is a less desirable type. 'There's no good solution to get rid of shad. They're contributing to your water quality' problems by stirring up sediment from the bottom of the lake, she said. 'I think walleye would enhance your fishing' and provide a predator in open water. The fish survey listed walleye as the second least abundant species, with only one caught. The DNR doesn't currently have plans for stocking Flint Lake, though. 'In a glacial lake, a lot of times stocking a lake is throwing more fish into a system that is already maxed out,' she said. Also, the state can't produce enough walleye in its fisheries to meet that kind of demand throughout the state. The Friends of Fishing group has stocked walleye at Loomis Lake, at a cost of about $1,600 for 500 fish, one of the group's members said.
