{"id":65396,"date":"2017-11-15T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65396"},"modified":"2017-11-16T06:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:13:49","slug":"wsj-chasing-a-new-type-of-buzz-big-brewer-makes-a-play-for-marijuana-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65396","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Chasing a new type of Buzz&#8211;Big Brewer Makes a Play for Marijuana Beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. distributor of Corona beer is chasing a new type of buzz.<\/p>\n<p>Constellation Brands Inc. has agreed to take a 9.9% stake in Canopy Growth Corp. , a Canadian marijuana company, and plans to work with the grower to develop and market cannabis-infused beverages.<\/p>\n<p>Canopy Growth is the world\u2019s largest publicly traded cannabis company, with a market valuation of 2.2 billion Canadian dollars on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The C$245 million (US$191 million) deal gives Constellation a toehold in an industry that the brewer expects to be legalized nationwide in the U.S. in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/big-brewer-makes-a-play-for-marijuana-beverages-1509300002\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(WSJ) Chasing a new type of Buzz&#8211;Big Brewer Makes a Play for Marijuana Beverages <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/08vXW43Wqg\">https:\/\/t.co\/08vXW43Wqg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/drinks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#drinks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cannabis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cannabis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/health?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#health<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/usa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#usa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/corporations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#corporations<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/economy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/930955190609510401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. distributor of Corona beer is chasing a new type of buzz. Constellation Brands Inc. has agreed to take a 9.9% stake in Canopy Growth Corp. , a Canadian marijuana company, and plans to work with the grower to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65396\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,209,175,207,589,99,168,104,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcoholdrinking","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65438,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65396\/revisions\/65438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}