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BLACKROCK Municipal Income TRUST V.BFK.P


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BlackRock Municipal Income Trust (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to provide current income exempt from federal income taxes. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests at least 80% of its managed assets in investments the income from which is exempt from federal income tax (except that the interest may be subject to the alternative minimum tax). The Fund may invest directly in securities or synthetically through the use of derivatives. The Fund's investment policies provide that it invests at least 80% of its total assets in investment grade quality municipal obligations issued by or on behalf of states, territories and possessions of the United States and their political subdivisions, agencies or instrumentalities, each of which pays interest that, in the opinion of bond counsel to the issuer, is excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes. Its investment adviser is BlackRock Advisors, LLC.


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Post by jaffnaguy2014on Jan 18, 2018 8:04pm
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Old news but good to readA group of licensed cannabis producers want to set up their own weed store in Alberta

Some of Canada’s biggest marijuana producers are banding together to create a private retail co-operative that would sell cannabis for recreational use in Alberta, once it is legalized next year.

The Canadian Cannabis Co-op — made up of 12 licensed producers including Aphria, Hydropothecary, Organigram and Medreleaf — is pledging to create a “turn-key retail solution” that they profess will address the challenges of “safe, regulated supply and socially-responsible cannabis retailing.”

The proposed Co-op will operate as a bricks and mortar retailer, as well as an e-commerce platform. The LPs involved believe that if successful, the Co-op model could create over 400 near term jobs and generate over 30 million dollars in wages to the province of Alberta.

Notably absent from this group of 12 is Canopy Growth Corporation, the biggest licensed producer in the country, that in fact surpassed a market value of $2 billion just this week.

“I think the nature of how the Alberta market works with alcohol for instance, can be modelled with cannabis,” Organigram’s Chief Commercial Officer Ray Gracewood told VICE Money.

Just this week, the Alberta government announced it would sell recreational cannabis through stores overseen by the province’s alcohol and gaming commission. It is still, however, weighing whether to set up government-run stores like the LCBO model that has been proposed in Ontario, or allow private retailers to control the market.

“What we’re aiming for is a private retail body that will work with these 12 LPs, to ensure the adequate supply of weed to meet expected demand,” Gracewood said.

“There’s a common consensus among the LPs that market demand will be far greater than what our present production capabilities are. It’s important for us to come together to develop a foundation that can be best scaled up.”

Licensed producers, dispensaries and independent weed growers have been jostling to get a piece of the lucrative retail pie, once recreational weed becomes legal in Canada next summer.

In Ontario and New Brunswick at least, the bigger licensed producers like Canopy Growth and Organigram have emerged winners, effectively shutting out dispensaries, that have been thriving for decades — albeit illegally — from the retail game.

“It’s a privately run industry here,” said Gracewood, with reference to the way in which alcohol is sold in Alberta. “If we can put together a solution for a market that does not yet have a solution, then we should do that.”

https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/595kzq/a-group-of-licensed-cannabis-producers-want-to-set-up-their-own-weed-store-in-alberta
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