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Inside Denver’s struggles to diversify its $700M marijuana market
“It’s not the program’s fault,” Cohen said, praising the efforts of city and state policymakers. “There’s a high cost to all the regulations.” As weed legalization spreads across the country, white-owned cannabis companies are overwhelmingly the ones raking in billions of dollars a year selling a drug that disproportionately... Read more
Arkansas officials OK signatures for marijuana initiative
Supporters of a recreational marijuana initiative have turned in the required number of valid signatures, moving the measure closer to appearing on Arkansas’ ballot this fall, election officials said Friday. A spokesman for the secretary of state’s office said supporters of the proposed constitutional amendment had reached the 89,151... Read more
Bipartisan bill would create mechanism to expunge federal marijuana misdemeanors
Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.) introduced a bill on Friday that would create a mechanism for federal misdemeanor marijuana offenses to be expunged, amid a new push for decriminalization at the federal level. Carter said in a press release shared with The Hill that the legislation, which is being co-sponsored by Rep. Rodney... Read more
A United States citizen, teacher, and lecturer was slapped with 14 years of hard time in prison for a little bit of pot found in his luggage at an airport in Moscow, Russia. It’s the latest move in a series of harsh sentences dished out on Americans in the... Read more
Amid growing speculation that activists may have fallen short in their bid to get a cannabis legalization question on this year’s ballot in Missouri, a top official in the state said this week that the outcome is far from sealed. “I can’t say without any certainty whether it will... Read more
When city officials in Denver, Colorado authorized home delivery of cannabis products in April of last year, licenses for cannabis delivery services were reserved for social equity businesses for a period of three years. Under the plan, delivery services owned by entrepreneurs who have been negatively impacted by the... Read more
The poll asked 1,000 adults to answer questions online between July 22-25, which revealed that 28% of Americans have used at least one of the seven psychedelic drugs included in the questionnaire. In order of most used to least used, the list of substances included LSD (14% of participants),... Read more
Millions of dollars in additional cannabis tax revenue could become available in Sacramento County, Calif., following this November’s election. That’s because the county’s board of supervisors voted, 3-2, on July 26 to allow voters to decide the fate of a proposed ordinance that would tax cannabis and hemp business... Read more
Editor’s note, 5:11 p.m. ET, July 29: This article was updated to include additional information from Ben Rosman on contaminant testing in Michigan, current public access to testing data in the U.S. and why he believes more testing data should be publicly available. On the heels of a federal... Read more
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