Sentences with phrase «legal use of marijuana»

An increasing number of states is decriminalizing or allowing for some legal use of marijuana.

Peter Straszynski explains the workplace challenges of accommodating the legal use of marijuana for medical purposes, and recommends a number of steps that employers can take to ensure that their policies accommodate employees» needs while balancing impairment and safety concerns.

Advocates had countered that it was highly unlikely, given legal use of marijuana in other states, that the feds would tie up New York over offering expedited access to the drug to a limited number of patients.

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Perhaps most strikingly, recent evidence has shown that states with legal marijuana have lower rates of opiate use.

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.

Billions of dollars are expected to flow through California's legitimate marijuana industry next year when recreational pot becomes legal, but most of those businesses won't be able to use banks.

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.

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.»

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.

«Adult use» is the marijuana industry's preferred euphemism for legal recreational use of cannabis, weed, pot — call it what you like.

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.

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.

In late 2015, 58 % of Americans said that marijuana use should be legal.

Medical marijuana is now legal in 23 states and Washington, D.C., with five of those jurisdictions permitting recreational use.

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.

As of 12:01 a.m. on November 9, marijuana use is fully legal in California.

However, Spicer then signaled that the White House sees recreational pot very differently, with the press secretary even attempting to link recreational use of the drug to the abuse of opioid drugs across the U.S. (In fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is available.)

In a sign of the continuing shift in attitudes about legal marijuana, a new survey finds that a majority of police officers now favor allowing the use of medical marijuana.

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.

Innovative Industrial Properties could help investors grab a slice of real estate used for the growing of legal marijuana crops.

When asked more generally, should the use of marijuana be made legal in the United States, 54 percent of voters said yes.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

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.

The company has signed up about a third of the roughly 200,000 medical marijuana customers in Canada, and Linton said he expected some 3 million Canadians to use legal non-medical pot next year.

Myclobutanil, a chemical that is also prohibited for use on legal cannabis in Colorado, Washington and Oregon because of health concerns, was found in product recently recalled by Mettrum Ltd., a Toronto - based medical marijuana company.

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.

Christians can disagree about the use of drugs like marijuana and their legal status, but we should be united in our agreement that the criminal justice system needs to be reformed.

I have never used marijuana nor have any plans to do so, but for the first 150 years of our history as a nation, it was legal and used in nearly 80 % of the medicines of the 19th c. George Washington grew it on Mt. Vernon.

It's the scent of legal marijuana for recreational use.

Good to Know Colorado is the nation's first public education campaign regarding the legal, safe and responsible use of retail marijuana.

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.

According to Hon. Alban Bagbin, the use of Marijuana would be legal should he become the next president of Ghana since the herb have proven to be medically beneficial to society.

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.

His office compiled the estimates by applying tax rates similar to those used by states where marijuana is legal to the number of New Yorkers believed to use marijuana, based on the usage rates reported on national surveys.

Sixty two percent of New York voters said they supported making marijuana use legal for people 21 and older, with only 28 percent opposed, according to a poll commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project Foundation and the Drug Policy marijuana use legal for people 21 and older, with only 28 percent opposed, according to a poll commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project Foundation and the Drug Policy Marijuana Policy Project Foundation and the Drug Policy Alliance.

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.

John Liu has a new pet issue in this mayoral race: Just ahead of Tuesday's mayoral debate, the city comptroller proposed changing the city's marijuana laws to make the drug legal for recreational use, then taxing it and using the revenue to help pay for the City University of New York.

According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the US, with 58 percent in support, tying the high point in Gallup's 46 years of polling on the subject.

«The use of marijuana has been effectively legal for white people for a really long time,» said Nixon.

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.

That's what she understands sick people do in some of the 18 states in which marijuana is legal for medical use.

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.

Previous studies have reported that states where medical marijuana is legal have lower rates of medical and non-medical prescription drug use and related harms — including opioid overdose.

The results could advance our understanding of marijuana's effects on the developing brain as the drug's rapidly changing legal status increases its recreational and medical use in the United States.

«When it comes to adults, we don't know long - term consequences of moderate marijuana use in the legal context, so that we can not say that we absolutely must intervene,» explained Marina Epstein, a UW research scientist and lead author of the study.

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 cannabis policy community, however, is advocating for quite the opposite — legal recreational use of marijuana.

«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.

Although men have higher baseline use levels of both alcohol and marijuana, the effect of the minimum legal drinking age is larger for women.

That's because it should allow researchers to investigate a wider variety of strains, including ones closer to what people are actually using in states where medical marijuana is legal.