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An estimated 91% of U.S. adults (91%) say either that marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational use or that it should be legal for medical use only While cannabis remains an illegal substance federally, a growing number of states have legalized the substance An emerging leader in the U.S. cannabis marketplace, NUGS’ vision is to acquire, scale assets in the…

Researchers from Brown University recently conducted a study that examined posts on Reddit that could help explain what may have influenced the shift observed in the support for cannabis legalization by the public. Babak Hemmatian, the researcher who led the study, used machine learning to conduct an analysis of more than 3 million comments made on Reddit in the period…

Historically, the left has been open to more liberal policies while the right has always espoused conservative beliefs. This has been especially evident in cannabis reform, and except for a recent Republican-led cannabis bill, the GOP and its followers haven’t been big fans of legalizing the adult use of cannabis. A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that…

As more states across the United States legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use, the push to federally legalize the herb grows. Thus far, 18 states and Washington, DC, have legalized the recreational adult use of cannabis. Still, cannabis remains illegal to sell, use or possess under federal law, which has in turn made banks refrain from backing the marijuana…

Over the past couple of years, public opinion on cannabis has seen a significant shift. After decades of prohibition, anti-cannabis rhetoric and harsh sentencing, plenty of people didn’t look too favorably on the controversial plant. But as more states have launched medical cannabis markets and marijuana’s possible benefits have come to light, public support for cannabis legalization has been on…

New research has found that states which maintain cannabis prohibition continue seeing increases in disparities in rates of arrest while those that decriminalize or legalize cannabis experience significant reductions in race-based arrests. The research was published by the American Medical Association in its JAMA journal. The report examined data collected from 43 states in the country in order to establish…

Legalizing cannabis was always going to be a controversial move. After decades of prohibition and anti-marijuana propaganda, drug reform activists had a difficult task at hand, and opponents to drug reform did not make their jobs any easier. While cannabis advocates said that decriminalizing cannabis would reduce incarceration rates for nonviolent drug offenses, create plenty of new jobs and generate…

The illicit cannabis market has proven to be quite resilient. Although the assumption had been that once states start legalizing the controversial plant, consumers would ditch the black market for legal pot, that’s not how things have turned out. Years after recreational cannabis was first legalized, the black market still vastly outsells America’s state-legal marijuana industry. In California, for instance,…