Canada can look south of the border to see how the push
for legal pot sent rents soaring.
Between 2016 and 2021, aggregate sales growth
for legal pot should quadruple to about $ 17 billion.
Aeron Sullivan, the co-founder of Tradiv, an online wholesale marketplace
for legal pot businesses to buy and sell marijuana, says there is no doubt pot production will be outsourced to other regions of the world and the southern states in the U.S.
Heck says it's impossible to have a regulated market
for legal pot sales when everything is done in cash.
Not exact matches
Because of those fears,
pot dispensary operators in the 29 states where the drug is
legal, either
for medical or recreational purposes, often find themselves nervously handling obscene amounts of cash.
For example, the Justice Department wants to make sure
pot profits in states where marijuana is
legal are not being funneled to gangs or cartels.
The demand
for legal marijuana, which has outstripped many lofty expectations, isn't the only thing small - business owners in the
pot gold rush are surprised about.
«Adult use» is the marijuana industry's preferred euphemism
for legal recreational use of cannabis, weed,
pot — call it what you like.
Recent polls suggested roughly 60 % support
for the ballot to legalize recreational cannabis in California, which legalized medical marijuana two decades ago and already sees an estimated $ 2.7 billion from
legal medical
pot sales.
California's vote Tuesday likely had the greatest implications
for the burgeoning
legal marijuana industry, adding the state's more than 38 million residents to an already rapidly growing
legal pot market.
Opponents of
legal weed in Oregon say they would take their fight to the Oregon legislature, pushing
for stricter laws designed to limit access to
pot by children, among other efforts.
The news of Sessions» plan comes just days after
pot shops opened in California, launching what is expected to become the world's largest market
for legal recreational marijuana.
The Opposition Conservatives have chided the government
for moving too fast on
legal pot, suggesting there are outstanding public safety issues that need to be addressed.
The booming market
for legal marijuana is creating big opportunities
for entrepreneurs catering to the market
for alternative
pot - based products, like high - end edibles and beauty products.
Sessions convened a task force to study
pot policy, but the group made no recommendations
for upending the
legal industry.
Gertner's first involvement in the («
legal,» he jokes) Canadian marijuana market came after a 2000 Ontario Court of Appeals ruling that the government's
pot prohibitions were unconstitutional because they did not include a carve - out
for medical use.
Wykowski, a former Justice Department prosecutor, expects California lawmakers will produce «more well - defined regulations»
for the state's
legal cannabis market now that recreational
pot will be
legal to grow and sell.
SEATTLE (AP)-- More than two years after Washington state launched
legal marijuana sales, it's planning to test
pot for banned pesticides more regularly.
Canopy Growth is currently licensed to produce 31,000 kilograms of marijuana and related products, and aims to triple that by July next year, the deadline the federal government has given provinces to make
pot legal for all.
While Trudeau presses ahead
for legalization of marijuana by next summer, some provinces say they need more time to plan
for heavy lifting on regulating and policing
legal pot sales.
Legal pot sales in North America, which are projected to hit $ 10 billion
for 2017, will likely quadruple over the next decade.
The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards
for such transactions, but a banking ban on
legal pot sellers remains intact
for now.
However, at Guidant we are conservative in our approach so will not take on these types of businesses —
For example starting a
pot shop in a state where marijuana is
legal is not something Guidant will fund with ROBS, as marijuana hasn't been legalized federally.
I think we should explore the possibility of making other drugs
legal for this reason, but
pot should be first since it is the least dangerous.
There's only one problem: While poker is
legal in Montana, the
pot is limited to $ 300, and a hand of Texas Hold»em
for those stakes is not going to do much
for this crowd.
Marijuana aka
pot, dope, grass, Mary Jane, etc. is now
legal in four states and the District of Columbia, and is on the ballot this fall
for an additional five states, but the push to legalize, as well as its medicinal use, does not necessarily equate with its safety.
There is another MPA assessment due this month, and with the information commissioner demanding the details of the amber - red reports are released, the public accounts committee to debate the details of the stinging National Audit Office report, and a ruling on
legal appeals all due
for July, the answer
for government is simple: get the vote on the paving bill through before any of that happens, whilst trying to con MPs in affected constituencies that if they don't vote
for it, the compensation
pot will run dry.
But he softened his stand and called
for the study of legalization in January after Massachusetts voters approved recreational
pot and incoming New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy campaigned on making
pot legal in his state.
Medical marijuana has been picking up supporters in the state legislature, and Wednesday it was the subject of a public hearing at the capitol featuring business owners from Colorado, where
pot is
legal for both medicinal and recreation use.
This whole medicinal
pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug
legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials
for possession or cultivation.
Earlier this year, he called
for a study of the issue after Massachusetts made
pot legal and newly elected New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy vowed to do the same.
He could set a decent example
for Albany lawmakers by refusing to take tainted, albeit
legal,
pots of money himself.
Nixon added that legalizing
pot use
for non-medical reasons would end «a key front in the racist war on drugs» and generate hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue
for the state through
legal marijuana sales.
Some
pot is grown on private property
for legal use by medical marijuana patients.
Does
legal marijuana tempt
pot users to consume more alcohol — or are they likely to opt
for cannabis instead of chardonnay?
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Some owners of tornado shelters have had to lock them up because they've become «attractive nuisances» in the
legal jargon, serving as venues
for pot parties, etc..
Rhode Island, which legalized medical marijuana in 2006, is now wrestling with the next big question on that front: whether to become the first state in the U.S. to make
pot legal for recreational use as well.
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for your entertaining
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legal publishing game.
Admittedly, it's difficult to argue with some of the common proposed limits of these two provincial plans —
for example,
legal age
for use (not sure we want 10 - year - olds smoking
pot just yet), impaired driving rules and government regulation of production to ensure quality and safety.
Marijuana dispensaries are a
legal landmine
for landlords as
pot laws are in a state of flux.
PotCoin (
POT) is a peer - to - peer cryptocurrency developed with the aim of becoming the currency of choice
for the
legal marijuana industry.
For broker - owners and managers, particularly those who live in states where some form of
pot use is
legal, the case deserves to be closely watched.