Sentences with phrase «legalizing marijuana sales»

More states are expected to consider legalizing marijuana sales in the coming years.

President Donald Trump expressed support for medical marijuana on the campaign trail, but his administration has hinted at a possible crackdown on the growing number of U.S. states that have legalized marijuana sales in some form.

As legalized marijuana sales take off in Colorado, here's what a pot business model and mature marketplace might look like.

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Sales of some beer brands even dipped slightly in Colorado, Washington and Oregon after these states legalized recreational marijuana.

CNBC's Aditi Roy reports live from San Francisco's «Hippie Hill» on why cannabis sales are lagging after California legalized marijuana.

While there are some variations across provinces in their distribution plans for legalized marijuana, the largest two provinces, Ontario and Quebec, intend to have provincial run outlets modelled on their government - controlled alcohol sales.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

On January 1, Colorado legalized the sale of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use.

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.

Montevideo (AFP)- The number of people registering to buy newly legalized marijuana in Uruguay jumped by almost 50 percent in the first week of sales, according to official figures released Wednesday.

On November 8, another four states voted in favor of outright marijuana legalization: California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts all voted in favor of legalized use, sale, and consumption of recreational marijuana.

In California on November 8, voters chose yes on Proposition 64 — a bill to legalize the recreational use, possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.

In Nevada on November 8, voters chose yes on Question 2 — a bill to legalize the recreational use, possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.

In Massachusetts on November 8, voters chose yes on Question 4 — a bill to legalize the recreational use, possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.

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 Netherlands effectively legalized limited marijuana sale and use 40 years ago.

While some beer industry insiders worry that legalized marijuana could cannibalize beer sales, the category could use a boost from new products.

Last summer, the Obama administration said it would not challenge laws legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington as long as those states maintain strict rules involving the sale and distribution of the drug.

The Official Opposition NDP supports decriminalization, such that the sale of marijuana isn't fully legalized but consumers aren't criminally prosecuted.

Agnese, for his part, points towards 2017 research from the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University that found, based on the analysis of sales data collected by Nielsen retail scanners between 2006 and 2015, that monthly alcohol sales fell an average of 13 per cent in states that had legalized medical marijuana.

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

DENVER, Nov 5 (Reuters)- Supporters said on Tuesday that a Colorado measure to levy taxes on newly legalized sales of recreational marijuana and earmark the first $ 40 million in revenue for public schools had been approved by voters.

Illicit marijuana sales in New York are estimated at $ 3 billion, and an official study by City Comptroller Scott Stringer in 2013 found that potential tax revenue for the state would likely exceed $ 400 million, if an adult - use marijuana market was legalized in New York City.

Sponsors of a bill to legalize marijuana held a forum that in part focused on the nuts and bolts of how to implement a system that would permits sales and impose taxes on the drug.

Sponsors of a bill to legalize marijuana held a forum that in part focused on the nuts and bolts of how to implement a system that would permit sales and impose taxes on the drug.

The Compassionate Care Act, sponsored by Senator Diane Savino and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, would legalize the growth and sale of medical marijuana, making New York the 23rd state to legalize some use of the drug for medical purposes.

Giambra is proposing that legalized and tightly regulated marijuana sales represent the best way to address the state's massive infrastructure and mass transit needs.

An employee pulls marijuana out of a large canister for a customer at the LoDo Wellness Center in downtown Denver in January after Colorado legalized the commercial production, sale and recreational use of marijuana.

The comptroller's office used survey findings and figures from Colorado and Washington, which started allowing marijuana sales in 2014, to estimate how many New Yorkers smoke pot regularly, how much they would spend if it's legalized and how much tax revenue those sales could generate.

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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.

BDS testifies before the New York State Assembly Hearing on Legalizing & Regulating Adult Sale and Possession of Marijuana and its Prospective Effects on Public Health and the Criminal Legal System.

Overall, the results suggest policymakers should be careful when legalizing medical marijuana sales, Freisthler said.

The issue is particularly complicated in Washington state, which legalized recreational marijuana use in 2012 after privatizing liquor sales the previous year.

As a result, the uptick in alcohol sales made it difficult to isolate the impacts of legalized marijuana on drinking from the change in alcohol policy.

Drivers surveyed during the daytime in Washington were more likely to test positive after the state legalized recreational sales of marijuana than before.

With the legalized use and sale of marijuana in Nevada, Washoe County has been working diligently during the past two years to collect public feedback and input to create and implement codes to govern marijuana in unincorporated Washoe County

On Wednesday, Seattle's city attorney, a former federal prosecutor, and a city councilman who used to be a police officer all testified in support of a bill that would legalize the sale, possession and delivery of marijuana for adults over 21 years old — and, in theory at least, generate millions of dollars from taxes on the product.

As an increasing number of states legalize the sale of marijuana for at least some purposes, lawyers are needed to sort out the legal needs of cannabis growers, users and distributors.

BDS testifies before the New York State Assembly Hearing on Legalizing & Regulating Adult Sale and Possession of Marijuana and its Prospective Effects on Public Health and the Criminal Legal System.

I think the notion that Canadian values support a free - for - all for the sale of pot is untenable given (i) the recently enacted regulatory regime for the sale of medicinal marijuana and (ii) the existing regulatory regimes for the sale of alcohol and tobacco (which would, if pot were legalized, presumably be extended to pot), but you and I can disagree about that.

In 2014, Colorado voters in the United States passed a landmark law legalizing the sale and purchase of marijuana.