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As Gov. Andrew Cuomo presents his budget for the next fiscal year Tuesday, a prospective Republican challenger says legal marijuana is a key way to ease the state's fiscal crisis.

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«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.

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.

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.

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advised state regulators on compliance and enforcement, said the reports» numbers are guesswork, and furthermore are outdated because they don't take into account the marijuana now being sold in Oregon's legal recreational market.

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, said the already $ 6 billion legal marijuana industry faces troubled times unless advocates make their voices heard.

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.

Entrepreneurs say it happened at around the same time that the Trump White House suggested federal enforcement against recreational marijuana might be increased and after Attorney General Jeff Sessions described the legal marijuana industry as «violent.»

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.

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

Lift CEO Matei Olaru said he believes its accounts were targeted in connection with the U.S. tech giants» policies barring promotion of the sale of illegal, prescription or recreational drugs, even though medical marijuana is legal in Canada and recreational pot will soon follow suit.

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.

Pew Research says 57 percent of U.S. adults believe marijuana should be legal, while 37 percent say it should be illegal, a reversal of opinions held a decade ago.

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

Medical marijuana is a nonpartisan issue, the poll finds, with 81 percent of Republicans, 94 percent of Democrats, and 93 percent of Independent voters all say medical pot should be legal.

Since the first legal, recreational marijuana grows were licensed in early 2014, the state has conducted 45 investigations of pesticide misuse, said Justin Nordhorn, chief of enforcement with the Liquor and Cannabis Board.

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.

«Legal marijuana has become so entrenched in the U.S. — it's a multibillion - dollar industry — and I don't see the people who are behind this, people like myself, rolling over for the Justice Department, which means Congress will have to act,» Morse said.

Where it becomes really interesting, said Golinger, is if marijuana consumption lounges become legal in Ontario, a possibility that has been hinted at by both the provincial government and the opposition, although not for the first year of recreational legalization.

Josh Bridegroom, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Downtown Modesto Partnership, said it's not known whether legal marijuana stores will create problems.

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.

Dispensary co-owner Ron Koch said legal advice he received cautions that marijuana dispensaries are selling something the federal government considers illegal.

Should federal tolerance for legal marijuana one day end, bank accounts full of marijuana profits may be seized, he said.

Trudeau says he wants to make things fairer for those with possession charges once marijuana becomes legal

«Currently, under federal banking laws, many legal, regulated legitimate marijuana businesses — operating legally according to state law — are prevented from maintaining bank accounts and accessing financial products like any other business, such as accepting credit cards, depositing revenues or writing checks to meet payroll or pay taxes,» Perlmutter said.

Incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said that «good people don't smoke marijuana,» and press secretary Sean Spicer hinted that the administration may crack down on marijuana in some states where it's now legal.

Rob Rowe, a lawyer with the American Bankers Association, said on Wednesday that while the «industry certainly appreciates any additional guidance on the ability to bank marijuana dispensaries in states where use is legal, it really doesn't change the fundamental prohibition.»

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«Big manufacturing and grow facilities have had their roof blown off, there is water in their manufacturing rooms, equipment damaged, no light for plants and most are dead,» said Goodwin Aldarondo, the president and CEO of Puerto Rico Legal Marijuana.

Guardian Angels founder and WABC radio personality Curtis Sliwa says he's been treating his chronic Crohn's disease by smoking pot, and he's going to make it legal on 4/20 — the aptly chosen day he'll officially begin a medical marijuana regimen to fight the illness» nausea and pain.

«I have great concerns with a policy that impedes patients» ability to access information about a legal medical treatment,» said Sen. Diane Savino, a Democrat from Staten Island and the lead sponsor of the medical marijuana legislation in the Senate.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon wants to legalize marijuana because she says it is time to stop putting black people and others of color in jail for something that is «effectively legal» for white New Yorkers.

But 49 percent said New York should move beyond a test program and follow the lead of other states that have made medical marijuana legal.

While McCray said she supports lawful, regulated recreational use, the mayor said he would like to further study states that have already instituted legal marijuana laws.

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.

Astorino said he might be open to legal medical marijuana in the state if it was strictly controlled.

Doctors at the hearing said studies show legal marijuana can reduce opioid abuse.

«In the case of medical marijuana, we were allowing production and sale, and in order to get a company to do that, you need to tell them that it's legal,» said Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, D - Manhattan.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is on the verge of making medical marijuana legal in the state — a treatment that researchers are now saying may help control blood sugar and diabetes.

The April 19 Texas poll found voters say yes to the Guard, no to the wall; voters back legal marijuana almost 2 - 1.

«It is still not entirely clear to me that the federal government would prohibit the movement of medical marijuana under state supervision from one legal medical marijuana state to another,» Gottfried said earlier today.

«It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal,» he said, invoking the same approach taken toward users of medicinal marijuana in 18 states where it's legal.

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.

Even though it is now legal, activists say there are still many obstacles in place that keep people from gaining access to medical marijuana.

Cynthia Nixon would give black communities the first crack at legal marijuana licenses — saying it's a «form of reparations.»

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

He said once marijuana is legal, he would also move to expunge criminal records and release prisoners incarcerated for related crimes.