For the cultural and legislative mecca of cannabis that California has steadily been since the 1960’s at least, one would naturally expect California to be the highest-grossing state for recreational cannabis sales and tax revenue. And those assumptions have proven to be obviously true as...
The sizable number of American jobs and career opportunities created from the further legalization of the cannabis industry as well as cannabis-ancillary companies can’t be understated. In only a decade’s time and despite 28 US states still prohibiting fully recreational cannabis, the number of jobs...
As has been heavily and thoroughly reported by now, the once-mecca of cannabis named California is suffering setback after setback in the recent happenings of their state’s cannabis industry. Total sales across the $5 billion-dollar state industry are down 8.2 percent from the previous year...
The island that is often known by foreigners as a haven for pot smokers is experiencing a shortage of marijuana due to heavy rains followed by an extended drought. Although still technically illegal, marijuana in Jamaica is typically bountiful and inexpensive due to lax enforcement...
Residents of Idaho, the only state in the U.S. without a law for medical or therapeutic marijuana, have been flocking to dispensaries along the borders of Oregon and Washington where marijuana is legal, according to a recent report by Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. In...
Broad legalization of marijuana in 2018 has brought many changes to the marijuana industry along with the criminal justice system’s treatment of the controversial drug. According to a recent article by the Associated Press, with the advent of legalization, the number of felony marijuana arrests...
The so-called War on Drugs was mostly a war on marijuana. Drug testing has mostly been marijuana testing, and when police arrested people for drug crimes, it was disproportionately black and brown people found in possession of, or selling, small amounts of marijuana which are...
According to the report BDS Analytics and Arcview Market Research, California’s legal cannabis market is expected to reach $3.1 billion this year. This makes the Californian marijuana market the largest in the world—bigger than Colorado and Washington, two of the pioneer states for legalizing recreational cannabis,...
On Friday, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, Billy Williams, issued a memorandum titled “Priorities in Enforcement of Federal laws Involving Marijuana in the District of Oregon.” The memo explains that changes are afoot in enforcement policies and practices with respect to federal marijuana...