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New Study: Demographic and policy-based differences in behaviors and attitudes towards driving after marijuana use: an analysis of the 2013–2017 Traffic Safety Culture Index

Cannabis Law Report

Marijuana policies in the United States have become more permissive, motivating research on demographic and policy-based differences in behaviors and attitudes towards driving after marijuana use. Marijuana policies in the United States (U.S.) Introduction.

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Policy Study: The impact of California’s cannabis taxes on participation within the legal market

Cannabis Law Report

Realizing this need, California lawmakers passed the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) in 2017. Part 5 uses data calculated in prior sections to model California consumers’ expected behavior due to changes in retail price in response to a change in tax policy.

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Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Reports Says States Have Collected $US10 Billion In Cannabis Taxes So Far

Cannabis Law Report

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. The special retail tax rate was 10% until the legislature and governor increased it in July 2017. Also, until July 2017, a 2.9% 46,104,922.

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Virginia, Marijuana, and How Medical Legalization May Unfold in the South

NORML

So, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that Virginia didn’t launch a medical marijuana program until 2015, nearly two decades after California. Then, in 2017 and 2018, Virginia finally made some moves to establish its own medical marijuana industry. The 2015 Virginia law is an affirmative defense law.

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MPP Report: Marijuana Tax Revenue in States that Regulate Marijuana for Adult Use

Cannabis Law Report

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. The special retail tax rate was 10% until the legislature and governor increased it in July 2017. Also, until July 2017, a 2.9% 46,104,922.

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Marijuana Legalization in NY & Driving: Response to NYS Association of Police Chiefs from Roc NORML

NORML

Adult-use passes by ballot. Adult use-sales go into effect. Four years into adult-use sales, net fatalities below 2002 despite rise in population and increased miles traveled. Total % change from pre-legalization (2003) until 2018 = -3.3%.

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Germany: Berlin is suing the BfArM

Cannabis Law Report

In 2015, the green district mayor of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Monika Herrmann, applied for cannabis to be sold at controlled sales points in Bonn – without success. So is the sale of cannabis for consumption purposes a health issue that belongs in pharmacies? The Berlin Health Senate sees it that way, the BfArM does not.