Jerry Mitchell was being bugged by some new kid in town to help him find a couple of joints. He turned the fellow down on a couple of occasions, but finally picked up 1/3 of an ounce of homegrown from a local source and sold it to the new kid for $5. I…
Month: July 2020
Congress votes to protect legal marijuana
We did it! (Again!) Today, for the second time in history, the House of Representatives…
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Louisiana: Medical Cannabis Expansion Laws Take Effect
The most significant new measure, House Bill 819, expands the discretion of physicians so that they can recommend cannabis therapy for “any condition” that they consider “debilitating to an individual patient.”
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State-Legal Marijuana Industry to Employ Nearly 300,000 Workers by Year’s End
The analysis projects as many as 295,000 marijuana-related jobs by the close of 2020 – a total that is slightly higher than the total number of computer programmers working in the United States.
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New Jersey: Supermajority Back Legalization Measure Ahead of November Vote
Majorities of Democrats (78 percent), Independents (63 percent), and Republicans (57 percent) back the 2020 ballot measure.
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States Experience Record Surge in Retail Marijuana Sales
“One unanticipated effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the growth acceleration of legal cannabis markets (and erosion of the illicit markets) in those states which have activated both medical and adult-use sales.”
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Hedonism and Weed Leads to Happiness
Sharp legal and social distinctions are often made between medicinal and recreational marijuana, with indistinguishable recreational marijuana typically having a dark cloud cast over it. Why the distinction? At universities in Zurich and The Netherlands the need for hedonism and recreation is getting a major overhaul.
We all set ourselves long-term goals from time […]
A Founder Looks at 50: The “Free John Sinclair” Rally; Public Protests Sometimes Matter
John Lennon obviously thought something good might result from his focusing national attention on this unjust prison sentence for a minor marijuana offense, but I suspect he was as pleasantly shocked as the rest of us when, shortly following the event,…
New York: Senate Lawmakers Approve Legislation Protecting Medical Marijuana Patients from Housing Discrimination
Members of the New York state senate approved legislation by a 58 to 2 vote…
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Arizona: Voter Support Grows for Adult-Use Legalization Ahead of Likely Initiative Vote
Sixty-two percent of likely general election voters “believe that marijuana should be legalized for adult use in the state of Arizona.”
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