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Oregon NORML, In Partnership With The Oregon Justice League, Files “Legalization Justice Act of 2020”

NORML

Chief Petitioners Madeline Martinez, Leia Flynn, and Angela Bacca filed a ballot measure to be known as “The Legalization Justice Act of 2020” at the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, March 18. The OJL seeks to right these wrongs as well as provide a model for other states to implement a more just version of cannabis legalization.

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What are the cannabis laws in Mexico? Is weed legal?

The Cannigma

Medical: Legal Recreational: Decriminalized (expected to be legal imminently) . Mexican lawmakers in March, 2021 approved a law to legalize recreational cannabis, and some analysts believe the country could become the world’s largest cannabis market. What does Mexico’s cannabis legalization bill allow?

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In states with legal cannabis, teen use triggers concerns

Cannabis Chronicles

DENVER — The first two states to legalize recreational marijuana are starting to grapple with teenagers’ growing use of highly potent pot, even as both boost the industry and reap huge tax windfalls from its sales. It is unclear whether all of this means years of generally stagnant pot use among children are coming to an end.

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Is Cannabis Recession-Proof? 

Cannabis Life Network

During the last major recession in 2008 and 2009, the legal cannabis industry didn’t exist. Colorado and Washington didn’t legalize it until late 2012. Canada didn’t have a recreational sector until 2018. Is cannabis recession-proof? But ultimately, we won’t know how […].

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Legal Civil War At Co Dispensary Native Roots

Cannabis Law Report

Yet through multiple expansions over the past four years, company co-owners Josh Ginsberg and Rhett Jordan have been in financial and legal clashes with partner Peter Knobel, according to Denver District Court documents, with Knobel currently fighting an arbitration decision that would award $100.5 million to Ginsberg and Jordan.

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NBC Story: High potency weed linked to psychotic episodes, mysterious vomiting illness in young users

Cannabis Law Report

Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. The ER at Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo saw only five scromiting cases in 2009. Reports of the syndrome doubled in two different ERs in the state shortly after legalization, according to one study. Robin Noble.

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Legalization of Cannabis 

Cannabis Law Report

Cannabis legalisation is the way of eliminating all legal barriers to its use. Legalization of cannabis means that it would still be prohibited, but no one would be prosecuted if they had less than a certain quantity. Colorado earned more than $302 million in medicinal and recreational cannabis fees and taxes in 2019.