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Why Legal Marijuana Does Not End The Illegal Market

MJ Business Attorneys

Areas that have approved the sale of cannabis still deal with a “gray market” where legal and illegal marijuana markets coexist. It is a scenario that frustrates legal cannabis businesses and law enforcement alike.

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Norway’s Alliance for Rights-Oriented Drug Policies (AROD) To Hold Cannabis Sale Outside Oslo Police HQ Sept 11 To Highlight Country’s Drug Policy Failures

Cannabis Law Report

Norway’s Alliance for rights-oriented Drug Policies (AROD) says that to vindicate the rights of drug law violators , they will on 11 September 2021, hold a cannabis sale outside Oslo’s police headquarters to protest the abject failure of Norwegian drug reform. Oslo Police HQ. An invitation to cooperate.

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It is Time to Acknowledge Reality and End Federal Marijuana Prohibition

NORML

Today, we stood with Representatives Tulsi Gabbard and Don Young as they introduced the Ending Federal Prohibition Act and Marijuana Data Collection Act. Currently, ten states and the District of Columbia have legalized the adult use of marijuana and thirty-three states and DC have medical marijuana programs.

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Delaware Lawmaker Will Reintroduce Cannabis Legalization Bill in January

SpeedWeed

Kind Idaho Chair Jackee Winters is laser-focused on qualifying the group’s medical cannabis legalization initiative for the state’s 2022 ballot in order to help her daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, get legal access to cannabis. It’s time for Idaho to grow up,” she told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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NCAA Makes Historic Move: Cannabis Excluded From Prohibited List

Veriheal

Over the past decade, cannabis has been slowly shedding its cloak of cultural and legal disapproval to emerge as a more accepted substance in many parts of society. These policy changes across different sports leagues suggest a collective evolution in attitudes towards cannabis, potentially paving the way for a new era in athlete drug policy.

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Paper: Racial Capitalism and the African American Experience Entering the Cannabis Industry By Dr. Ayoka Nurse

Cannabis Law Report

The current public policies in local and state cannabis ordinance and equity programs may enhance racial disparities if they follow the pattern of exclusion and criminalization that encompass past policies promoted as beneficial to African Americans but uphold racial capitalistic practices. Background of Study. Purpose of the Study.

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Legal Weed States Across the US Raked in a Whopping $3 Billion in Tax Revenue in 2020

SpeedWeed

Most people will probably count 2020 as one of the most challenging years in recent history, but for the US cannabis industry, it was the best year yet. Last year, state-legal weed retailers moved nearly $18 billion worth of product, and over $3 billion worth of that money went straight into the coffers of state and local governments.