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FBI: Marijuana-Related Arrests Comprised Over 40 Percent of All Drug Arrests in More Than a Dozen States in 2023

NORML

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Illinois hits highest January cannabis sales since legalization

Illinois News Joint

After setting a new annual-sales total in 2024, Illinois kicked off 2025 with the highest January sales total since legalization. In 2024, Illinois set a new annual-sales total at $1,722,755,856.37, which outpaced 2023 totals of $1,634,982,020.74. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 February: $135,571,931.44

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Intoxicating Hemp Swindle

Project CBD

Its provocative kicker states: Much of whats sold as hemp today isnt hemp at all its a mix of synthetic intoxicants and illicit THC masquerading as a legal, natural product. There’s also THCP, THCO, HHC, and others that can’t be made from CBD starter material and thus are outside the legal definition of “hemp.”

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Illinois cannabis sales, for first time, trail previous yearly totals

Illinois News Joint

For the second-straight month (and only third time since legalization), March sales totals decreased from the previous years monthly totals. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85 2023 Yearly Totals: $1,634,983,542.79 million below March 2024 totals of $148,872,065.12. February: $130,608,286.57

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Illinois monthly cannabis sales dip to lowest since 2023

Illinois News Joint

After kicking off 2025 with the highest January sales total since legalization, February sales dipped to the lowest monthly total since January 2023, and for only the second time since legalization, monthly sales totals decreased from the previous years monthly totals. 2023 total monthly sales include: January: $127,938,019.85

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Red Light, Green Light for European Cannabis: Germany Goes to the Polls; Switzerland Eyes Pole Position on Cannabis Reform

Canna Law Blog

The CDU/CSU has pledged to repeal Germanys quasi-legalization law passed in 2024. Convincing these former traffic-light coalition members to reverse their stance on legalization seems unlikely. The proposal still has a long way to go, but it builds on pilot programs launched in 2023 that study legalization effects in specific Cantons.

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Thailand’s Cannabis Crisis: Could Asia’s Pioneering Cannabis Experiment Go Up in Smoke Amid Political Meltdown?

Canna Law Blog

The coalition that couldn’t hold After the 2023 election, the anti-cannabis Move Forward Party won the most votes but couldn’t form a government. Legal limbo hurts everyone Cannabis currently exists in a regulatory vacuum that serves no one well (prohibitionists and proponents alike).