Sentences with phrase «from legal marijuana»

Giambra said that if Washington were to come through with the promise of infrastructure spending, it would only further benefit the state when combined with revenues generated from legal marijuana sales.

Colorado has now collected more than $ 500 million in taxes and fees from legal marijuana since retail sales started in 2014, the report found.

Not exact matches

With recreational marijuana slated to become legal next year, provincial governments are determined to keep the sale of weed completely separate from the sale of alcohol, establishing dedicated cannabis retail outlets.

The Hood Incubator derives from a bold idea: build political and economic power for people of color in the legal marijuana industry through community organizing, policy advocacy, and economic development.

Oregon produces between 132 tons (120 metric tons) and 900 tons (816 metric tons) more marijuana than what Oregonians can conceivably consume, the report said, using statistics from the legal industry and estimates of illicit grows.

Not least, legal marijuana businesses are on a hiring binge, employing everyone from scientists to cashiers.

Still, it's hard to say if pot smuggling has gotten worse in Oregon, or how much of the marijuana leaving the state filters out from the legal side.

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).

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, said the already $ 6 billion legal marijuana industry faces troubled times unless advocates make their voices heard.

Bankers and those in the expanding legal marijuana business say new guidelines from the Obama administration aren't enough.

The financial industry will need more than a few signals from the White House that it's safe to bank legal marijuana businesses.

Gov. Berta Gardner also has voiced opposition to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» recension of Obama - era policies that protected states with legal marijuana operations from federal government interference.

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.

It's all part of California's plan to eventually collect an estimated $ 1 billion in annual tax revenue from the legal adult - use marijuana industry.

According to a statement from Commissioner Dave Jones, his department approved the first admitted commercial insurance company, Golden Bear Insurance, to cover state - legal marijuana businesses.

The commission that is setting up the system in Massachusetts recently passed new rules that bar anyone with a felony drug trafficking conviction from getting licensed by the state to cultivate or sell legal marijuana.

(Last month a federal bill was introduced that would shield banks from potential liability for serving legal marijuana businesses.)

Aside from technology, the company is also expected to benefit from a contract it landed with the Ontario government, which said earlier this week that it would use Shopify's e-commerce platform for cannabis sales online and in stores as part of its plan to be the province's sole distributor of legal recreational marijuana.

The legal marijuana industry is estimated to have seen more than $ 6 billion in revenue across the U.S. last year, and that number is forecasted to reach anywhere from $ 20 billion to $ 25 billion by 2020.

As marijuana moves from prohibition to a fragile but lucrative legal status it is attracting curious first time users interested in edibles but not bongs.

The poll also found that 87 percent U.S. voters believe that U.S. Veterans Administration doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana in pill form to veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in states where cannabis is legal.

On Tuesday, a joint release from New Frontier and ArcView projected that California's legal marijuana market could reach $ 7.6 billion in annual sales by 2020 alone.

Across 23 states and Washington, D.C., recreational and medical sales have surpassed $ 5.4 billion in 2015, up from $ 4.6 billion the year before, according the fourth annual State of Legal Marijuana Markets report.

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«Currently, under federal banking laws, many legal, regulated legitimate marijuana businesses — operating legally according to state law — are prevented from maintaining bank accounts and accessing financial products like any other business, such as accepting credit cards, depositing revenues or writing checks to meet payroll or pay taxes,» Perlmutter said.

The UFC strawweight prospect from Sacramento, Calif., who holds a medical marijuana card in California, where cannabis is legal for both medicinal and recreational purposes, fought at UFC 219 in Las Vegas, Nev. — a state where the drug is also legal for both purposes.

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«I have great concerns with a policy that impedes patients» ability to access information about a legal medical treatment,» said Sen. Diane Savino, a Democrat from Staten Island and the lead sponsor of the medical marijuana legislation in the Senate.

Surprisingly, in a presidential campaign that has featured the issue of drug use and abuse prominently, the legal status of marijuana has been mostly absent from the conversation.

A federal judge in New York tossed out a sweeping lawsuit that sought to make marijuana legal under federal law, ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to take the necessary first step of asking the DEA to remove cannabis from its list of dangerous substances.

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.

People aren't arguing for legal recreational marijuana because some benefit from it medicinally, but rather they want the medicinal aspects of it fully exploited through more and more research — which will come about via the added revenue from the recreational market.

The last thing that anyone would want is legal complications to arise from importing marijuana products over state lines without federal approval, or for unnecessary delays with the implementation of the current program to come as a result of layering a separate process on top of it.»

A company from Colorado is working with rabbis in New York on a plan to start selling legal, edible marijuana products that are certified kosher.

«It is still not entirely clear to me that the federal government would prohibit the movement of medical marijuana under state supervision from one legal medical marijuana state to another,» Gottfried said earlier today.

Even though it is now legal, activists say there are still many obstacles in place that keep people from gaining access to medical marijuana.

Unfortunately for Savino, and for any sick people who would benefit from lighting up a legal joint, Cuomo made it clear just nine months ago that he wasn't a fan of medical marijuana:

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

Marijuana is now legal for medical use in 28 states and the District of Columbia, but the federal government still considers possession or use to be a crime; the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently declined to remove it from their Schedule I list of dangerous drugs with no acknowledged medical benefits.

«The effect of alcohol availability on marijuana use: Evidence from the minimum legal drinking age» by Benjamin Crost and Santiago Guerrero was published in the Journal of Health Economics.

«The lessons we have learned from alcohol — a substance that is legal, but not necessarily safe — may provide guidance about approaches we need to take toward marijuana.»

Recreational and / or medicinal use of marijuana is now legal in more than half of U.S. states, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said.

Note that this would also exclude coverage for water damage, mold, and fires arising from growing marijuana even in states where it's legal to do so.

In Colorado, where recreational marijuana use is now legal, veterinarians are seeing a definite increase in the number of pets being brought in to clinics and emergency hospitals suffering from marijuana poisoning after ingesting pot - laced edibles.

While many young people visit Amsterdam for the marijuana scene — and perhaps to peek at the legal prostitutes in the Red Light District — the city is teeming with high culture, from the world - class art in the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseumn to P.C. Hooftstraat, the shopping street where you can find plenty of the contemporary, cutting - edge design that has become a source of pride in Amsterdam and the Netherlands.

The entire press release is a single quote from Cynthia Nixon (formerly «Miranda» on Sex in the City; currently running for governor of New York) that ends with: «The simple truth is: for white people, the use of marijuana has effectively been legal, for a long time.

This year, the governor signed a bill In 2015 declaring marijuana sales legal to recreational users from dispensaries starting October 1st, 2015.

Legal CBD oil or CBD e-Liquid is extracted from hemp which by nature generally has less 0.3 % THC, as opposed to 25 - 30 % for marijuana, therefore CBD is considered non-psychoactive and contains nothing else that can get you high.