Author: AggregatedNews
[ad_1] Sacramento is one of the best cities in the nation for cannabis fans, according to a new study. Real Estate Witch and Leafly, an online cannabis guide and marketplace, analyzed 50 of the largest metropolitan cities in the United States and ranked them as the best — and worst — cities for weed. Denver topped the list of the Best 15 Weed Cities in first place, followed by Portland, Oregon, in second place. Sacramento was No. 8, while other California cities appeared lower on the list. “Sacramento is the cannabis capital of California, ranking No. 1 in the Golden…
[ad_1] For the last two years, people have been able to stroll into New Jersey dispensaries to buy weed. But growing your own cannabis plant remains a third-degree felony. Despite a growing number of nearby states legalizing the growing of marijuana plants at home, bills to do the same in New Jersey have languished every session since cannabis was legalized. A state senator and chief sponsor of a bill to allow medical marijuana patients to grow cannabis, plus another bill that would expand that to 10 plants for medical patients and six plants for recreational users, said the fight for home grow is “at a standstill.” “We said…
[ad_1] In the culture of cannabis, April 20 is a holiday when those who partake light up in enjoyment and in protest of prohibition. Although the origins of “4/20” are debated — according to popular lore, a group of California high school students in the 1970s met after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke weed — the day has been globally celebrated for years. Until recently in New York, celebrations carried the risk of arrest or fines, so they would often take place in secret locations or places where the authorities were somewhat lenient, like Washington Square Park. Smoke-ins were…
[ad_1] By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski Last week, California’s Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) released illegal market enforcement data for quarter 1 of 2024. It’s become a new tradition of mine to compare this quarterly data and see whether the state is actually doing anything to fight the illegal market (for example, see my posts for Q4 2023, Q3 2023, and Q2 2023). What does California’s Q1 2024 data show? Below is a side-by-side comparison of the enforcement data published by the DCC from Q1 2024 as compared to Q4 2023: Q1 2024 Q4 2023 Search warrants served 18 24 Pounds of Cannabis Seized…
[ad_1] The state budget that’s expected to be adopted in the coming days calls for repealing the potency tax on marijuana products as well as new regulations intended to give local municipalities, including New York City, the ability to more easily inspect and shut down unlicensed cannabis stores. The enforcement actions, which include provisions to seize illicit marijuana products, will be limited to civil proceedings, however, and include potential fines for violators of up to $10,000 per day. In addition, there will be a process for warning bodega and convenience store operators that if they continue selling cannabis illegally they could face the…
[ad_1] Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year’s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with recreational pot now allowed in nearly half the states and the nation’s capital. Many states have instituted “social equity” measures to help communities of color, harmed the most by the drug war, reap financial benefits from legalization. And the White House has shown an openness to marijuana…
[ad_1] SEATTLE (AP) — Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. This year’s edition provides an occasion for activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with recreational pot now allowed in nearly half the states and the nation’s capital. Many states have instituted “social equity” measures to help communities of color, harmed the most by the drug war, reap financial benefits from legalization. And the White House has shown an…
[ad_1] “The legalization of adult-use marijuana in Florida is not just a game-changer for the state’s economy but also a defining moment for the entire U.S. cannabis industry,” Headset, a marijuana-focused data company, said in a blog post after the court’s decision. Already at around $2 billion in medical marijuana sales, “Florida could see $4.9 billion to $6.1 billion in sales” during the first year of recreational marijuana, Headset estimates. “Florida is unique,” says Kim Rivers, CEO of Trulieve, the leader in the state with more than 130 medical marijuana dispensaries. Trulieve was a main funder of the effort to get the…
[ad_1] Maine is the newest frontier for the illicit marijuana trade, with potentially hundreds of suspected unlicensed grow houses operating in the state, a CBS News investigation has found. It’s part of a larger phenomenon nationwide. Thousands of illegal marijuana farms have been cropping up in states like Oklahoma, California and Colorado, according to Raymond Donovan, the former chief of operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency. “[Maine] is a perfect location to cultivate cannabis and do it in a way that is very discreet,” Donovan told CBS News. In part, that’s because of the state’s proximity to major distribution markets…
[ad_1] The legal cannabis industry is thriving in the U.S., reaching its highest-ever number of jobs and sales, a new report shows. Vangst, a cannabis industry job platform, found that at the beginning of the year, there were 440,445 full-time-equivalent jobs in the legal cannabis industry—a 5.4 percent increase from 2023. Annual sales of legal marijuana, recreational and medical, increased by 10.3 percent to $28.8 billion last year, it added. Legal cannabis use across the U.S. has surged over the past decade, and jobs in the industry are at a high. In 2014, Colorado became the first state to legalize the sale and…
[ad_1] Hope Wiseman is exactly whom Maryland leaders envisioned supporting when cannabis equity became a state initiative. In Prince George’s County, more dispensaries make some residents and lawmakers shudder. The former investment banker sometimes sits in the driver’s seat of her parked Range Rover Sport and lets herself marvel at the customers trickling in and out of her Capitol Heights dispensary in Prince George’s County. The crowd on a weekday could have just as easily been emerging from a Wegmans: Silver-haired men and women, people in business casual, couples with bags in hand. They come for newly-legal INCREDIBLES, Sativa Milk…
[ad_1] Ten years ago this month, Iowa policymakers made it legal to use cannabis for certain medical treatment, marking the start of what would eventually become Iowa’s existing medical cannabidiol program. In April 2014, state lawmakers approved legislation to allow certain patients to use cannabis oil for their health condition. It was the first time a state law allowed Iowans to use marijuana products for their medical care. Iowa policymakers have since opened the door further and established Iowa’s medical cannabidiol program to oversee the cultivation, manufacturing and sale of cannabis products to a greater number of patients with qualifying…