The Trump administration launched a campaign to “counteract positive marijuana messages and identify problems with state legalization initiatives,” BuzzFeed News reporter Dominic Holdenrevealed in an investigative piece this week. “The Marijuana Policy Coordination Committee, as it’s named in White House memos and emails, instructed 14 federal agencies and the Drug Enforcement Administration this month to submit ‘data demonstrating the most significant negative trends’ about marijuana and the ‘threats’ it poses to the country,” the article reads. In the markets realm, “The biggest market news this week was the launching of Charlotte's Web stock under the symbol CWEB, which was priced at C$7 [$5.35] and closed on its first day at C$9.70 [$7.40],” Debra Borchardt, CEO of Green Market Report told Benzinga. “The valuation of C$100 million [$76.6 million] was a little rich considering the company only had C$40 million [$30.6 million] in revenue last year.Source