Sentences with phrase «from recreational marijuana»

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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.

«We do support medicinal uses of marijuana, but we also know that there's going to be some significant issues that arise as a result of legalisation from a recreational perspective... not only with respect to impaired driving but with respect to a whole host of other issues,» Gordon Wyant told a convention in the province.

«From a stigmatized, dangerous drug bought in the shadows, to an accepted treatment for various ills, to a widely accepted recreational outlet, marijuana has made it to the mainstream,» Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement.

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 new recreational marijuana laws will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2018, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to go straight from your New Year's Eve party to a local dispensary.

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.

And Colorado has taken in about $ 45 million in total tax revenues from both medical and recreational marijuana year - to - date.

Recreational, or «adult use,» marijuana sales also jumped from just under a billion in 2015 to $ 1.7 billion in 2016.

Tied for the largest single donation to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the campaign against the state's recreational marijuana proposal, was $ 500,000 from Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company known for selling the painkiller fentanyl in the form of a sublingual spray.

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.

Morse said he believes the same federal provision that bars prosecution of medicinal marijuana operators also protects the recreational side to some extent, because «it is difficult to distinguish one from the other.»

Marijuana companies will be banned from a majority of cities and towns in Massachusetts when recreational sales begin this summer, a Globe review has found, the latest indication that there will be fewer pot stores in the early going than many consumers expected.

From the Canadian border in Washington to the Mexican border of California, the entire West Coast has passed laws to legalize recreational marijuana.

The bill seeks to remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act and resolve the existing conflict between federal and state laws over medical or recreational use of the drug.

** Canada's No. 2 marijuana producer Aurora Cannabis Inc has agreed to buy smaller rival CanniMed Therapeutics Inc for C$ 1.1 billion ($ 852 million) as companies jostle to benefit from the country's legalization of recreational marijuana use later this year.

Canada's Liberal government campaigned on a promise to legalize marijuana for recreational use, arguing prohibition does not prevent young people from using the drug.

however obama simply laughs off questions about marijuana helping the economy when you can be d@mn sure it would generate a lot of revenue, not only from the medical and recreational sale but from the over 25,000 uses the plant has.

The marijuana industry first peeked out from the darkness last year when recreational sale was legalized in the states of Colorado and Washington.

CNN March 3rd: «Texas Wesleyan baseball coach was fired after he refused to consider recruiting a baseball player from Colorado because of the state's recreational marijuana laws.»

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.

For recreational marijuana, however, there is no one bill that has garnered widespread support from New Jersey lawmakers, according to Amol Sinha, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.

Other findings from the Siena poll: 56 percent are in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana, and 61 percent of New Yorkers are in favor of the Dream Act, which would allow children of undocumented immigrants to receive college financial aid.

By legalizing recreational use of marijuana, according to the provisions of Krueger's bill, the revenue earned from marijuana - related businesses can be funneled back into the communities that bore the impact of criminalization.

Recreational marijuana I think should be separated from the workplace.»

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.

In her highest - profile appearance since sitting down with Wendy Williams earlier this month, Nixon articulated her progressive vision with aplomb, touching on everything from gerrymandering to criminal - justice reform to recreational marijuana legalization.

After the District of Columbia legalized the recreational use of marijuana, Congress — which oversees the city — added a rider that would have limited the municipal government from using any funds to normalize the drug.

«That said, [Rep. Tonko] did not back an amendment to a bill a few years ago that would also have blocked DOJ from intervening in states that adopt recreational marijuana laws, expressing concerns tied to the negative effects that a blanket enforcement ban could have on public health and the economy especially if marijuana production was [allowed] to become corporate, vertically integrated, [and] heavily marketed,» Sonneborn continued.

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.

-LSB-...] Wafting in: Medical marijuana makes progress in New York But that hasn & # 39t stopped twenty states and the District of Columbia from implementing health - related marijuana protocols (Washington and Colorado took a step more approving legalization of recreational pot final year).

The slightly pungent scent of marijuana drifts in from a room off the kitchen, where joints are passed among a dozen people, some of them old enough to have been smoking marijuana as a recreational drug since the 1960s.

About a hundred years ago, however, the term marijuana became common in the United States, the result of anti-cannabis, anti-immigrant advocates trying to link recreational use of the plant to migrant workers from Mexico.

Analyses focused on data collected from high school seniors (weighted N = 10,597) in years 2007 - 2011 (2011 was the last year recreational marijuana use was still illegal in all US states).

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.

Marijuana takes much longer than most recreational drugs to be eliminated from the body and therefore undetectable in a drug test

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant intended for medical or recreational use.

A beat exploring the intersection between urban and rural life, culture, and politics, Siegler has recently brought listeners and readers to a timber town in Idaho that lost its last sawmill just days before the 2016 election, as well as to small rural towns in Nebraska where police are fighting an influx in recreational marijuana coming from nearby Colorado cities.

Another reason online brokerages are looking to attract DIY investors is the meteoric rise in Bitcoin and and all things cryptocurrency as well as the interest in stocks / companies poised to benefit from legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada and beyond.

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.

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

Marijuana is a preparation made from varieties of Cannabis sativa L. that are intended for medical and recreational drug use.

Senator Cory Gardner (R - Colorado) released a statement on April 13 that he has obtained a commitment from President Trump that Department of Justice will not target Colorado's (and presumably other states») legal recreational marijuana industry.

According to a report from The Rocky Mountain High - Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, in the three years since recreational marijuana has been legalized in our state, marijuana - related deaths on the road have increased by 48 % — and the frequency in which marijuana was involved in fatal accidents has doubled from 2010 to 2016.

Whether you use marijuana for recreational purposes or with a prescription from a physician, non smoker rates are possible with the right life insurance companies.

This is the third year that a recreational marijuana legalization bill has come up in the Rhode Island legislature, but its proponents feel that momentum from nearby Massachusetts may push this bill over the edge.

To alleviate those fears, a bipartisan group of 18 attorneys general from states with recreational and medical marijuana wants to bring the industry's financial side out of the shadows, and they're asking Congress for help in a new letter:

Recreational and medical use of marijuana are completely legal in Nevada, and while the state does have a few restrictions on where and how cannabis consumption devices can be sold, there are no regulations that prevent weed - tech startups from peddling their wares at trade shows.

We are working to ensure that revenue from the sale of recreational marijuana goes to support evidence based and evidence informed adolescent substance use prevention and education programs and services.

State laws that allow for medical or recreational use of marijuana have varying implications for real estate transactions, from residential and commercial brokerage to property management and leasing.

NEW ORLEANS (November 8, 2014)-- More than half of the nation's 1 million Realtors ® reside in jurisdictions with laws that allow for medical or recreational use of marijuana, which conflicts with federal law and has potential impacts on all types of real estate transactions, from residential and commercial brokerage to property management and leasing.