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The 5 States Most Likely to Legalize Recreational Cannabis in November 2016

September 20, 2016 at 4:34 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

Nearly half of the US has already legalized marijuana for either medical or recreational use. This November, nine states could continue the trend. Of those nine states, five have ballot initiatives that could result in legal recreational use, including Massachusetts, Maine, Arizona and Nevada. Most significantly, California could legalize recreational use — thus making the entire West Coast a legal enclave for recreational cannabis. All the initiatives below will be voted on this November, alongside the presidential election. Here’s everything [...]

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Supreme Court Refuses to Consider States’ Lawsuit Against Recreational Cannabis

March 22, 2016 at 12:33 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado’s regulated sales of marijuana for recreational use, removing a major threat to the multibillion-dollar state-legal cannabis industry. Possession of marijuana for any reason outside limited research remains a federal crime, and marijuana reform advocates feared an unfavorable ruling would take a wrecking ball to laws in four states that allow recreational pot sales and medical marijuana laws in many others. Colorado’s neighbors argued [...]

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California: Demand for Recreational Cannabis Reaches All-Time High

June 10, 2015 at 12:59 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

Support for the legalization of recreational marijuana use by adults has reached an all-time high in California, a state whose pot-friendly reputation precedes it but that has failed to get residents to approve full legalization in the past. A record 54 percent of potential California voters said they favored legalizing weed this year, a 3 percent increase in support from 2014, according to a June poll from the Public Policy Institute of California. While the poll wasn’t the first to [...]

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Legalization of Marijuana Most-Thriving Industry in U.S.

February 1, 2015 at 11:56 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the United States and if the trend toward legalization spreads to all 50 states, marijuana could become larger than the organic food industry, according to a new report obtained by The Huffington Post. Researchers from The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm based in Oakland, California, found that the U.S. market for legal cannabis grew 74 percent in 2014 to $2.7 billion, up from $1.5 billion in 2013. The group [...]

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Which State Will be Next to End Marijuana Prohibition?

August 15, 2013 at 5:20 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

As support for marijuana legalization continues to grow, Rob Kampia, the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, believes that momentum will drive two more states to follow Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational weed in 2014. In a recent interview with Reason, Kampia made several legal pot predictions. “I think the next state to legalize will be Alaska, through a ballot initiative that we’re running in August of 2014,” Kampia said to Reason. “Through state legislatures, I think the [...]

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Arizona Study Says Medical Marijuana Will Create 1,500 Jobs

April 23, 2013 at 6:45 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A new study says that an estimated 1,500 jobs will be created by Arizona’s new medical marijuana industry. Tim Hogan, a researcher with Arizona State University who wrote the study, said he used figures from Oregon’s established medical marijuana industry to estimate the size of Arizona’s market, reports Julia Shumway of Cronkite News Service. “It’s a pretty simple industry,” Hogan said. “There’s not too much nuance. The main driving mechanism is how many patients.” Hogan’s study, paid for by the Regulated [...]

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