Sentences with phrase «in legal marijuana»

Despite memos issued by the Federal Treasury and Justice Departments, there continues to be controversy and disagreements within the banking industry over whether or not banks can accept money or make loans to participants in legal marijuana businesses.

Current dispensary owners and operators who want a stake in the legal marijuana market would be well served to seek legal advice and evaluate preventative options before they have been raided and charged, by which time it may be too late.

The three states have lists of pesticides that are OK to use on marijuana, but so far none is conducting regular tests for banned pesticides, which has raised public health worries even though there's little or no indication of people becoming ill because of pesticides in legal marijuana products.

Hartfield's new venture taps into that entrepreneurial spirit with the intention to bring investors directly to the most exciting companies in the legal marijuana space.

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.

Not exact matches

Just like that, Mexico joined Canada this month in making medical marijuana legal nationwide.

«Given marijuana is not legal anywhere in Australia, we would refer anyone who we suspect to be bringing marijuana out of the U.S. to a Customs official,» said Annabelle Cottee, a spokeswoman for Australian airline Qantas.

In response to Sessions» comments, entrepreneurs in the legal industry and marijuana advocates oppose the Senator's nomination to attorney general, where he would have power over U.S. drug policIn response to Sessions» comments, entrepreneurs in the legal industry and marijuana advocates oppose the Senator's nomination to attorney general, where he would have power over U.S. drug policin the legal industry and marijuana advocates oppose the Senator's nomination to attorney general, where he would have power over U.S. drug policy.

Marijuana remains an illegal drug at the federal level in the United States, although 29 states and the District of Columbia have made medical marijuaMarijuana remains an illegal drug at the federal level in the United States, although 29 states and the District of Columbia have made medical marijuanamarijuana legal.

On Wednesday Sessions picked 17 U.S attorneys to serve in interim posts across the United States, several are posted in states such as Washington, Nevada, and California where marijuana is legal.

Early this month, Canopy Growth Corp., the largest legal marijuana producer in the Canadian market, announced it was buying competitor Mettrum for $ 430 million.

On New Year's Day, the sale of marijuana for recreational became legal in California, the country's most populous state.

Companies are boosting marijuana inventory in anticipation of legal recreational sales in July, and have much more weed than can possibly be sold at this point.

Other airports in states where marijuana's recreational use is legal have taken steps to allow travelers to ditch their stash before boarding.

Recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado, and the state's local Uber affiliate is looking to take advantage.

With marijuana now legal in some form in 25 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and legal at the recreational level in four states, it's probably only a matter of time before a ganjapreneur swims with the Sharks.

A U.S. Justice Department task force recently said the Cole Memorandum, which restricts federal marijuana law enforcement in states where pot is legal, should be reevaluated to see if it should be changed.

In California, implementing a «fully operational, legal market» could take years, said state Sen. Mike McGuire, who represents the «Emerald Triangle» region that's estimated to produce 60 percent of America's marijuana.

The Frequently Asked Questions section of the Coachella website includes a boilerplate response about whether festival attendees can bring marijuana to the festival now that the drug is legal in all forms in California for anyone over the age of 21.

Federal law all but requires legal marijuana to operate strictly in cash, while in Canada banks are helping that nation's cannabis industry boom.

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.

Pete Gendron, a licensed marijuana grower who advised state regulators on compliance and enforcement, said the reports» numbers are guesswork, and furthermore are outdated because they don't take into account the marijuana now being sold in Oregon's legal recreational market.

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.

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To be fair, though, medical marijuana has been legal in California for nearly two decades, but past Coachella festivals also have prohibited attendees with medical clearance to use the drug or bring it onto the festival grounds.

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).

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R - Alaska) was another Republican lawmaker in a state with legalized marijuana to voice criticism of Sessions» legal marijuana decision.

The governors of Oregon, Colorado, Washington and Alaska — where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal — wrote to Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in April, warning altering the memorandum «would divert existing marijuana product into the black market and increase dangerous activity in both our states and our neighboring states.»

Medical use is legal in New York, while recreational marijuana is not.

Interestingly, marijuana had been listed as a legal medicine in the U.S. up until 1942.

As the federal government moves slowly but surely toward the decriminalization of marijuana, Shoppers is looking to stake out its spot in the future market for legal weed.

The goal is for legal medical marijuana to bring back jobs lost over the past decades by the decline in the steel industry.

Voters have made marijuana legal for medical use in a majority of U.S. states and for recreational use in seven states and the District of Columbia.

In April 2016, CBS News released a poll showing that 61 percent of Americans believe marijuana should be legal.

But that's not all; The vape was also selected for its cultural relevance, reflecting both e-cigarette's momentous rise in popularity along with dramatically shifting attitudes and policies towards marijuana use (weed is now legal in Colorado and Washington, and will soon be in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C.)

Waller told CNBC financial institutions in Colorado would like to service the legal marijuana industry in that state, but she does not know of a single one that changed its position as a result of the federal memos released last week.

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

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.

Bankers and those in the expanding legal marijuana business want Congress to change the law — to make it clear that it's not a crime to provide financial services to the legal marijuana businesses.

Marijuana interdictions at the Mexican border are down substantially, youth use has not increased in states with legal access to cannabis, and responsible cannabis businesses are contributing tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact to their communities.»

On January 1, recreational marijuana became fully legal in the Golden State, where medical use has been legal since 1996.

An ETF investing in Latin American real estate became a marijuana fund overnight, and it's all perfectly legal.

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.

Marijuana became legal for recreational purchase and use in Colorado on the first of this year, and adult - use facilities are doing a booming business.

The debate at the Post is likely to echo at other companies at a time when marijuana use in the U.S. is gaining widespread legal and social acceptance.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Leafly, a Yelp - like website for the legal cannabis industry, has a list of California cities in which legal recreational marijuana will soon be going on sale, though the site notes that not all dispensaries are likely to be fully licensed by Jan. 1.

It's led to a legal quagmire in Arkansas, one of only two southern states to legalize medical marijuana.

Even though medical marijuana is legal in California, cannabis companies are still at risk of being shut down because the laws are still being developed.

Arkansas voters approved legal medical marijuana in November 2016.