Leafly

JULY 5, 2023

Leafly rates Nature's Heritage's Guava IX from Maryland's new legal cannabis era—part of our expert collection of rated flowers.

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The Blunt Truth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. New Hampshire has a commission to study legalization. SOUTH DAKOTA This week, South Dakota’s Attorney General released a final explanation of the adult-use cannabis legalization measure. Take for example, Rep.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 22, 2023

By Douglas Berman on May 22, 2023 In a couple of articles (see here and here, also flagged below), I have advocated that modern marijuana reform efforts should include the creation of a new criminal justice institution, which I have called a “Commission on Justice Restoration.”

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 18, 2023

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we return to South Dakota, where some people want adult-use to be legal and some want medical marijuana to be rescinded. We note that New Hampshire will now be studying legalization.

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 12, 2023

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. We look at the legalization signature drive in Ohio. This week, we have an update on the latest incarnation of the SAFE Banking Act. We note that New Jersey has eliminated its version of 280E.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

January out-of-state resident sales dropped to its lowest total since February 2020, the second month of legalization. Illinois countered its low out-of-state resident sales with strong in-state resident sales to kick off 2024 with its highest January in-state resident sales since legalization. 2023 Yearly Totals: $1,634,983,542.79

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 10, 2024

topped every monthly total since legalization. billion in 2023. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 2023 Yearly Totals: $1,634,983,542.79 These figures do not include taxes collected. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 2023 Yearly Totals: $1,634,983,542.79

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 4, 2023

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) reintroduced his Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult Use Regulated Environment (PREPARE) Act , in an effort to “prepare” the government for federal cannabis legalization.

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Illinois News Joint

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) today hosted the 2023 Tax Practitioners’ Meeting and PowerPoint presentation. 1, 2023, Cannabis industry businesses will be able to deduct business expenses that otherwise cannot be deducted federally pursuant to Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 15, 2024

2023 World UN World Drug Report The 2023 World Drug Report urges the development of effective drug policies. The 2023 World Drug Report shows unreasonable use of criminal penalties for the “war on drugs” movement as it discourages people who use drugs for treatment, and this encourages social stigma.

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Illinois News Joint

JULY 11, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation today announced recreational cannabis sales totals for June 2023. June sales totals were the third-most monthly sales since recreational-use legalization began. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 These figures do not include taxes collected.

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Illinois News Joint

AUGUST 3, 2023

For the second-straight month, Illinois set a new monthly sales record for 2023. Since legalization, July 2023 sales totals only trail December 2022 totals of $143,899,826.30. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 These figures do not include taxes collected. February: $120,488,569.91

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 16, 2022

Gavin Newsom introduced proposed revisions to his 2022-2023 budget proposal, which would eliminate the cannabis cultivation tax rate beginning July 1, 2022. The 15% excise tax on cannabis sales would remain, and the collection and remittance of that tax would be limited to retail sales beginning January 1, 2023.

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 3, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced recreational cannabis sales totals for May 2023. After recording strong monthly sales totals for March and April, Illinois recorded its third-most monthly sales total since legalization. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 9, 2022

Legalizing cannabis for adults has been a wise investment. Since 2014 when sales began in Colorado and Washington, legalization policies have provided states a new revenue stream to bolster budgets and fund important services and programs. billion in tax revenue from legal, adult-use cannabis sales. Here’s what they say.

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Illinois News Joint

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

August continued Illinois’ strong monthly sales, recording the third-highest monthly sales totals since legalization at $139,224,010.03. August followed only July 2023 total of $140,048,722.23 August in-state resident sales set a new record at $104,940,014.62, outperforming July 2023 and December 2022 in-state resident totals.

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Illinois News Joint

MAY 2, 2023

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced today recreational cannabis sales totals for April 2023. In 2023, monthly out-of-state resident totals dropped to the mid-to-low $30 million. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 These figures do not include taxes collected.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation announced Illinois’ January 2023 recreational sales totals today. monthly figure topped each previous January totals since legalization. In the first year of legalization for Illinois, January totals finished at $39,247,840.83. February: $113,993,046.06

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Medical Marijuana Program Connection

JULY 17, 2023

var mantis = mantis || []; mantis.push(['display', 'load', { property: '5bbb53a2bcafb20075d8dc64' }]); Colorado dispensaries will collect less money in 2023 than they did last year, according to sales projections based…

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

New York is set to reach new highs starting in 2023 — thanks to legalized pot. billion in new revenue from legal marijuana sales during the next six years, according to the fiscal 2023 spending plan unveiled Tuesday by Gov. NY Post writes. The state plans to reap more than $1.25 Kathy Hochul. billion budget.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Many in the industry thought that the National Defense Authorization Act would be the vehicle that would finally carry cannabis banking to legalization, but that’s not going to happen. This week, we have lots of federal news.

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Washington state then provided a regulatory framework for how the legalization of recreational cannabis production, processing, and retail sales would be regulated under what would become the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (“LCB”). The bill now waits for signatures and executive action to become law.

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Veriheal

MAY 4, 2023

These countries have the collective potential to spark economic transformation across the EU, which has been bludgeoned by financial downfalls since the COVID pandemic; GDP sunk 6.3% In 2021, Luxembourg and Malta legalized home cannabis cultivation for personal use. at the end of 2020. billion) by 2027. million patients by 2027.

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Veriheal

APRIL 23, 2024

The American marijuana industry was worth about $57 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach $444 billion by 2030, a staggering growth that reflects it as the fastest-growing industry anywhere in the world. California was the first state to legalize medicinal cannabis in 1996, right around the time that Gen Z began to enter society.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It’s 2023 and many cannabis businesses are still missing one critical operating document: a privacy policy. And it imposed a host of new legal requirements on applicable businesses (more on that below). A privacy policy is a key (and often legally required) document for any cannabis company. That’s a lot to digest.

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 6, 2022

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. New Hampshire’s Senate decided against legalizing. New Hampshire is surrounded by states where marijuana is legal for adult-use. The state Senate voted against legalization late last week. new hampshire.

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The Cannigma

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Out of a total 198 enrolled participants, 126 participants finished the 4-week data collection process, which included one week of questions before trying the product, to establish a baseline. 2 While the data collection effort did not include a control group, the prime findings were found to be statistically significant. hours to 6.79

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The Cannigma

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Whether we like it or not, whether it’s legal or not, people are using weed all the time. Collecting cannabis data from The Cannigma audience In June, 2023, we launched a community research effort with data and software company MoreBetter, creators of the Releaf App. So that’s what we’re setting out to do.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 31, 2022

One might think of Oregon as a sanctuary for individuals interested in microdosing, as Ballot Measure 109 legalized psilocybin services with service centers coming online in 2023. On the other hand, Measure 109 legalized psilocybin “services” broadly. Textualist Reading of Measure 109.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 5, 2023

Illinois also sold the most cannabis items in one month since legalization at 3,446,978. are the most since legalization in Illinois and a 12% increase from 2021 totals of $1,379,088,278.61 These figures do not include taxes collected. The 2022 sales totals of $1,552,324,820.37 and 20% from 2021 totals of $669,084,410.12.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 13, 2022

The 2023 Budget. Last week, the New York Legislature passed the State’s 2022-2023 Budget. Its recreational use was legalized only recently, in March of 2021. Thus, notwithstanding what appears to be growing public support for legalization, cannabis remains illegal under Federal law as a controlled substance. [x].

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The fight to legalize cannabis in Arkansas has gained more gusto than ever before with a new group of activists lobbying to get a reform initiative featured on the state’s 2022 ballot. 4 with the secretary of state’s office, the latest legalization effort comes courtesy of Arkansans for Marijuana Reform. Filed on Thursday, Nov.

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The Blunt Truth

JULY 18, 2023

filed Jun 21, 2023). held that state legalization, on its own, does not overcome the Controlled Substances Act’s (“CSA”) barrier to registering a federal trademark for cannabis-related drug paraphernalia. 2023 WL 3244416, *1 (T.T.A.B. May 3, 2023). LLC , 2023 WL 4044954, *1 (T.T.A.B. 7, 2023) (non-precedential).The

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Minnesota is missing out on up to $46 million in revenue by not having a special tax on legal THC products, according to a University of Minnesota Duluth study. “The bill that legalized edibles in Minnesota does not have much in place for the state to reap these benefits,” the study said. delta-9 THC. Read more at .

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It’s 2023 and many cannabis businesses are still missing one critical operating document: a privacy policy. And it imposed a host of new legal requirements on applicable businesses (more on that below). A privacy policy is a key (and often legally required) document for any cannabis company. That’s a lot to digest.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The OLCC announced several changes to the tax compliance rule this weekend at the Cannabis & Psychedelic Section of the Oregon Bar Association’s annual conference (where I was pleased to moderate a panel on the failures of legalization). In Oregon, such tax is only collected at the retail level.

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