Cannabis Life Network

JUNE 21, 2023

Recreational legalization came in 2016. It also breaks down the state’s arbitrary segregation policy that prevented recreational dispensaries […] The post Nevada: World Leader in Cannabis appeared first on Cannabis | Weed | Marijuana | News. They legalized medical cannabis way back in 2001.

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NORML

APRIL 7, 2020

” He added, “Just like alcohol prohibition gave rise to the illicit production of dangerous ‘bathtub gin,’ marijuana prohibition provides bad actors, not licensed businesses, the opportunity to fulfill consumers’ demand – sometimes with tragic results.”

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Veriheal

JANUARY 24, 2024

Residents often vote for progressive policies and support movements like gay marriage or federal cannabis legalization, and the recent news coming out of the state demonstrates this further. With more than 300 dispensaries now operating throughout the state, there’s serious potential for the market to continue growing.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 22, 2023

States legalizing recreational cannabis are seeing an unexpected and significant decrease in mental health treatment admissions. Unveiling these connections could reshape knowledge and understanding of public health implications and policy outcomes in this rapidly evolving field. However, he suggests two potential explanations.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Czech Republic has recently been working on polishing a legislative plan that would allow citizens to cultivate marijuana plants or enjoy them recreationally in cannabis social clubs. As a result, they’ve had to get creative when it comes to legalizing any form of recreational cannabis use for adults.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Connecticut’s recreational cannabis market is gearing up for its expected launch in spring of 2022, MJBizDaily reports. Despite a flurry of recent developments in New York’s adult-use market, Connecticut’s market is expected to launch first. After this, licensees will be chosen by lottery.

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Medical Marijuana Program Connection

APRIL 20, 2024

4/20, a holiday about all things cannabis and marijuana, is on Saturday. While weed isn’t legal for medicinal or recreational purposes in Kentucky in 2024, it’s likely some still partake in the celebration, traveling to nearby dispensaries and attending local events to light up. Thunder Over Louisville and the 150th.

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MassRoots

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Newly sworn-in Democratic Governor Tony Evers announced Monday that he is taking Wisconsin cannabis policy reform into his own hands by attaching proposals to his spending budget this year. Evers aims to legalize medical cannabis, decriminalize recreational possession and use, and expunge qualifying arrest records.

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The NM Political Report | Medical Cannabis Program

APRIL 3, 2023

The state’s recreational cannabis program brought in $300 million in adult-use cannabis sales in its first year, Gov. Since April 2022, New Mexico issued about 2,000 cannabis licenses across the state including 633 dispensaries, 351 producers, 415 micro-producers and 507 manufacturers.

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Veriheal

JANUARY 25, 2022

Despite historic tension between the tech and cannabis industries, VentureBeat reports that a slew of new policies from big tech companies in 2021 has signaled a critical turning point in the ongoing struggle. In February 2021, actor John Belushi called out big tech over its unjust policies regarding cannabis content.

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MMJ Recs

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2014, Governor Jay Nixon signed the Missouri Medical Marijuana Bill, making it possible for CBD to be used as medicine for seizures. In 2018, Amendment 2 was passed, making medical marijuana in the state completely legal. Is medical marijuana being sold in Missouri yet? How many dispensaries are licensed in Missouri?

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WeedAdvisor

JUNE 12, 2019

Marijuana supporters may applaud efforts to fully lift prohibition at a state and federal level, but they could not have anticipated the ramifications of those actions. Despite the fact the recreational marijuana makes it easily accessible by all, it has devastating effects on the medical market. Oregon’s Fall. . Disparities.

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SpeedWeed

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Virginia lawmakers on Saturday narrowly approved compromise legislation legalizing a commercial recreational marijuana program that could generate nearly $1.5 Virginia would become the country’s 16th state and the first in the South to legalize adult-use marijuana as soon as Gov. 1, 2024 start. billion-$1.4 billion-$1.4

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Veriheal

JANUARY 22, 2024

Maryland celebrates one year of recreational sales, “Little Amsterdam” pops up on the Texas-New Mexico border, and voters advocate to empower cannabis consumers in their Second Amendment right. Here’s what you missed this week in cannabis and psychedelic news. And adult-use cannabis isn’t the only market that was affected.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Marijuana Moment. Council unanimously approved emergency legislation on Tuesday that will effectively create a recreational marijuana market by allowing people to self-certify themselves as medical cannabis patients and access dispensaries—without needing to get a recommendation from a doctor. The Washington, D.C.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Latest study designed to encourage sensible policy development. OLCC Provides Oregon Legislature with Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Study. . 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report. 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report. January 31, 2019.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

(KRDO) — Manitou Springs City leaders are setting the record straight and answering a popular question when it comes to marijuana sales tax revenues. “We frequently get questions from the public and the news media about the marijuana sales tax,” said Alex Trefry, a spokesperson with the city of Manitou Springs.

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Veriheal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This landmark move signifies significant departures from previous policies and ushers in new eras of cannabis regulation within tribal lands and the state of North Carolina. Medical marijuana has already been legalized on EBCI land, and the tribe is taking steps to establish a medical cannabis dispensary , the Great Smoky Cannabis Co.,

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 3, 2021

Connecticut state lawmakers are advancing legislation legalizing recreational use of marijuana on the heels of a recent poll conducted by the Institute for Public Policy at Sacred Heart University (SHU) of Fairfield, Connecticut. The SHU poll also revealed that 76.3

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 19, 2020

Marijuana users queued around the block in various cities on Sunday in an effort to stockpile enough cannabis to see them through a lengthy lockdown. One casualty of the policy was the famous coffee shops. Is marijuana essential? Dispensaries OK’d to stay open. Is marijuana essential during the coronavirus pandemic?

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The old-school, speakeasy-style cannabis store is named and themed after Harlem Renaissance legends Josephine Baker and Billie Holiday , who both became federal government targets for using marijuana during the Prohibition era. California legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, according to the New York Times.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 1, 2022

This Map Shows Where You Can Obtain Legal Marijuana in the U.S. Marijuana legalization is spreading across the country. You can throw a stone and hit a news report about yet another state legalizing marijuana these days. Fortunately, we’ve created a marijuana map that reveals which states have legalized marijuana.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 14, 2023

The directive from Mastercard underscores the contradictory landscape of cannabis laws in the United States, where cannabis is legal for medicinal and recreational use in most states yet remains illegal under federal law. However, this rigid federal stance contrasts starkly with state-level policies.

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SpeedWeed

MAY 10, 2021

If Ivey provides the ink, Alabama will become the 37th medical cannabis state, joining the likes of nearby Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, according to reform organization Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). The post How High Are Taxes on Recreational Marijuana in Your State? View original article.

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SpeedWeed

MAY 20, 2021

Louisianans will likely have to wait at least another year before the state legalizes marijuana, after HB 434 was rejected on Tuesday in the legislature. Louisiana officially greenlit a medical marijuana program back in 2015, but it didn’t get off the ground until 2019. Beyond HB 434. Last year, Louisiana Gov. Virginia Gov.

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Connor & Connor PLLC

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Across the country, retail stores and medical dispensaries are seeing large revenues, despite the even larger burden of regulations and the persistent federal prohibition of the practice. One of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana was Colorado, followed by Washington and Oregon. How do I start a dispensary?

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 2, 2021

have introduced legislation that would ban the spending of federal welfare benefits at cannabis dispensaries. Two pending pieces of legislation include language to prohibit the use of welfare benefits at marijuana retailers, including a wide-reaching Senate welfare reform bill and a stand-alone measure in the House of Representatives.

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WeedAdvisor

JUNE 27, 2019

In May Illinois sent a marijuana legalization bill to Governor J.B. One of the legalization bill’s key selling points was that it would give small-time marijuana convicts a new start. Previous low-level convictions and arrests for marijuana will be pardoned and expunged.”. A Hands-Off Approach”. . Accolades and Concerns.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 21, 2021

Pritzker announced late last week that the state will conduct three lotteries later this summer to award licenses for recreational marijuana retailers. The lotteries, scheduled to be held in July and August, will determine who receives licenses for 185 adult-use cannabis dispensaries across the state. .

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The Blunt Truth

APRIL 2, 2020

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. We’ve got lots to report on how the pandemic is affecting marijuana, but let’s start with other news first. Moving on to coronavirus news, the hemp industry was included in the recent stimulus package.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Wellness Connection filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday against the Maine department that oversees marijuana policy, claiming that residency restrictions on owners of recreational cannabis businesses violate the U.S. He said that because marijuana is illegal on a federal level, banks cannot provide loans.

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Peninsula Alternative Health

MARCH 13, 2023

And while cannabis may be legal for medical or recreational use in certain states, it is still illegal at the federal level, which has led to some confusion and inconsistencies in how social media platforms regulate cannabis-related content.

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Peninsula Alternative Health

MARCH 13, 2023

And while cannabis may be legal for medical or recreational use in certain states, it is still illegal at the federal level, which has led to some confusion and inconsistencies in how social media platforms regulate cannabis-related content.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

states and the District of Columbia currently have legal cannabis, medical or recreational. Despite this massive shift in cannabis policy, however, a few states are still dragging their feet on cannabis legalization. It prohibits cannabis possession, use, purchase, sale, or cultivation, whether for recreation or medical purposes.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

contains social justice provisions aimed at promoting equity in the industry, including automatically expunging prior marijuana convictions and providing interest-free loans to low-income individuals who want to participate in the market. Marijuana deliveries and social use lounges at dispensaries would also be permitted.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 5, 2021

You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Illinois / Illinois is on pace to sell over $1 billion in marijuana this year. The second year of recreational marijuana sales in Illinois is off to a fast start. million in recreational sales during January, and $80.7 Medical marijuana sales through February topped $62.2

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

If the fear of unwanted weight gain made you weary of the munchies, you should know that the cannabis community is associated with lower obesity rates, and this new study confirms it. This is somewhat surprising given previous literature finding marijuana use is often associated with increased unhealthy food consumption and lethargy.” .

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