Sentences with phrase «allowing marijuana sales»

The comptroller's office used survey findings and figures from Colorado and Washington, which started allowing marijuana sales in 2014, to estimate how many New Yorkers smoke pot regularly, how much they would spend if it's legalized and how much tax revenue those sales could generate.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

Walk - in sales at pharmacies are not allowed under the law, and only residents of Uruguay can register to buy pot — thereby preventing marijuana tourism.

A less far - reaching proposal in the District of Columbia to allow marijuana possession but not retail sales won nearly 65 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting, unofficial results showed.

Only licensed medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed to apply for licenses for recreational sales.

More than a year after Colorado became the first state to allow recreational cannabis sales, the marijuana industry is growing and evolving further.

The suit also notes cannabis» wide reach, and says products are finding their way into neighboring states, which do not allow recreational marijuana sales or possession.

«We are pleased to see the Obama administration will not cause harm to citizens and states by shutting these businesses down, and hope this will lead to an expansion of sensible policies related to marijuana, such as allowing these businesses access to banking, and taxing them at a fair rate,» said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, a Washington, D.C. - based trade group that represents what it says are the thousands of firms involved in marijuana production and sales.

The system would feature storefront sales and mail - order distribution, and allow a wide diversity of producers to operate legally, including «craft» growers and the current producers of medical marijuana.

Also marijuana sales (where legal for medical or personal use) is usually strictly cash (perhaps BitCoin is accepted) because banks won't allow accounts or CC services.

«In the case of medical marijuana, we were allowing production and sale, and in order to get a company to do that, you need to tell them that it's legal,» said Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, D - Manhattan.

While federal law still makes the possession, production and sale of marijuana a crime, Holder's announcement means the Justice Department won't file lawsuits against state laws in Colorado and Washington that allow people to possess marijuana for personal use.

The bill would also allow for the cultivation of up to six marijuana plants and create a system fo granting licenses for production, transportation and sale.

The RAND study was conducted before any any states had begun to allow retail sales of recreational marijuana.

In Mexico consumption of small amounts was decriminalized whereas in Uruguay personal consumption was never a crime, although in 2013 the country passed a law allowing the production and sale of marijuana in amounts regulated by the state.

Federal law does not allow for medical marijuana, but it allows for the unrestricted sale of products derived from hemp.

Several US - Canada states allow the legal sale of marijuana under specific conditions, including border state Washington.