Sentences with phrase «legal pot»

She differs with the governor on legal pot, too.

Heck says it's impossible to have a regulated market for legal pot sales when everything is done in cash.

Is there still so much stigma and concern with this drug that a lawyer's career plans and possibilities might become permanently damaged or distorted by representing even legal pot dealers?

But it's about more than just lighting up — James said legalization should include provisions to purge New Yorkers» criminal records of marijuana convictions and give people of color a fair share in any future legal pot industry.

Listen to our podcast interview with writer Greg Miller on the impact of legal pot on opioid abuse.

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.

Who is lighting up the ledgers with legal pot sales?

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By Jan. 1, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state's emerging legal pot market, from where and how plants can be grown to setting guidelines to track the buds from fields to stores.

That brings the tally of states with legal pot to eight, plus Washington, D.C., meaning one in five American adults now lives in an area where it will be legal to get high.

Giambra says the revenues from legal pot could go help fix roads and bridges...

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.

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.

Others in the booze industry have been less stoked about legal pot, afraid that it will cannibalize alcohol sales.

State officials plan to study how legal pot could impact New York and evaluate the potential effects of legalization in neighboring states such as Vermont and Massachusetts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

As neighboring states creep towards legal pot, the North Country delegation is taking a more cautious approach

Canada can look south of the border to see how the push for legal pot sent rents soaring.

Online ads from unlicensed marijuana shops are creating turmoil in California's emerging legal pot market.

Giambra says the revenues from legal pot could go help fix roads and bridges state wide.

This week alone, the state Democratic Party is reportedly on the verge of endorsing legalization and Stringer published his report estimating $ 1.3 billion a year for New York from taxes on legal pot.

Between 2016 and 2021, aggregate sales growth for legal pot should quadruple to about $ 17 billion.

Legal pot sales in North America, which are projected to hit $ 10 billion for 2017, will likely quadruple over the next decade.

Goldenvoice, the concert and festival promoter that operates the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., has a message for concertgoers ahead of this year's festival in April: leave the legal pot at home.

And whether Congress legalizes marijuana nationally, enforces current federal law or turns the matter over to the states, it's becoming increasingly clear that at some point it will have to do something when it comes to legal pot.

This looks set to change in October, when Colorado will allow standalone cultivation and retail operations for the first time, but until then it's the only way to run a legal pot business.

Small businesses are the big losers in Jeff Session's decision to end a federal policy that lets the legal pot industry flourish in the US.

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.

One group that provides data services to the marijuana industry estimates that the legal pot industry could be worth $ 24 billion by 2020 and create 280,000 jobs.

Legal pot could be a $ 3 billion industry in New York — and pour up to $ 772 million in tax money into state and city coffers, according to a new report by NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer's office.

But New York would still have nearly 1.5 million regular users — including about 548,000 in New York City — who would each spend close to $ 2,100 a year on legal pot, creating a $ 3.1 billion statewide market, the report says.

Its important the government keep the prices of the legal pot low.

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* Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes took advantage of Washington state law and purchased himself some legal pot yesterday, making him the highest - profile lawyer in the country.

Large corporations — one of which was founded by the CFO of the Liberal Party of Canada — stand to reap the benefits of legal pot.