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2021 Global Drug Policy Index Published

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What ids the Global Drug Policy Index? The Global Drug Policy Index is a unique accountability tool that documents, measures and compares national-level drug policies. 50 years after the escalation of the global ‘war on drugs’, punitive drug policies continue to bring uncounted harms. This is the basic outline.

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New Data Reveals Legal States Experienced Fewer Cases of EVALI

Veriheal

An Analysis of Nationwide EVALI Data. To conduct their study, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence in November 2021, the researchers obtained the number of (confirmed and probable) EVALI cases for each state in the U.S. ” The study also discovered impacts from other variances in policies across states.

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Chacruna… Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel: 2021 Comprehensive Report

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The initiative also created the Denver Psilocybin Policy Review Panel (“Panel”), which was required to report back to the City on the public safety and other impacts of decriminalization. On November 9, 2021, the Panel delivered its report to the Denver City Council, which can be reviewed here. 2021-Comprehensive-Report.

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Illinois Collects Nearly $100 Million More From Marijuana Tax Revenue Than Alcohol In 2021, State Data Shows

Cannabis Law Report

Illinois has generated almost $100 million more in tax revenue from adult-use marijuana sales than from alcohol in 2021, state data shows. This will be the second round of funding to be issued through the state’s Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) program, which was established under Illinois’s adult-use cannabis legalization policy.

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2021 Connecticut Tax Developments

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30 July 2021. billion budget for the two-year period that commenced July 1, 2021, reflecting a 2.6% billion budget for the two-year period that commenced July 1, 2021, reflecting a 2.6% Please note that Connecticut will be running another tax amnesty program during the period from November 1, 2021 to January 31, 2022.The

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Federal vs. State Approaches to Cannabis: Recent DEA Data Shows Increase In Enforcement While States Move Toward Decriminalization and Legalization

The Blunt Truth

According to recent data from the Drug Enforcement Administration , however, in 2021, federal law enforcement agents seized over 5.5 Separately, from a social point of view, as of 2021, 49% of adults have tried marijuana in the US, which is approximately 162,678,600 Americans.

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The Tax Foundation: States Projected to Post Higher Marijuana Revenues in 2021

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In 2021 alone, four states (Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia) have passed bills to legalize. It includes the tax design, final revenue in fiscal year (FY) 2020 and estimated revenue for FY 2021, and revenue per capita generated in the same fiscal years. Projected Revenue FY 2021. Tax Design. Revenue FY 2020.