The Smart and Safe Arizona Initiative has filed a petition with the Secretary of State for clearance so that the group can start a campaign to gather signatures which will see marijuana legalization put on the state’s 2020 ballot. Under the initiative, adults who are 21 or older will be able to buy, possess, consume and cultivate marijuana in the…
Last week, we reported that Regulate Florida, an advocacy group campaigning to put marijuana legalization on the 2020 state ballot had gathered enough valid votes to get the Supreme Court to review the language of their petition and that John Morgan, the personal injury lawyer who had bankrolled an initiative to legalize medical marijuana had declined to support the current…
The mid-December launch of edibles, vapes, and infused beverages in Canada won’t live up to the hype. READ MORE: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-ways-marijuana-legalization-2-103600160.html?.tsrc=rss
The working group created by New Mexico Gov. Michelle Grisham (D) announced on Friday that it would be holding its first public meeting on August 14. During that meeting, several issues connected to plans to legalize recreational marijuana in the state will be discussed. Individual residents and groups are free to comment either in advance or during the actual meeting…
Nearly two-thirds of Americans back marijuana legalization, an IBD/TIPP poll found, and one-fifth of investor households use it as marijuana stocks multiply. READ MORE: https://finance.yahoo.com/m/d96f6aae-fecb-3894-abb2-cf2ea1c86cad/here%26%2339%3Bs-how-many-investors.html?.tsrc=rss
An effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida registered its first victory on Monday when reform activists announced that they had collected a sufficient number of signatures in order to trigger a process through which the state’s Supreme Court would review the language of their petition. If the court approves the petition’s language, Regulate Florida, the group behind the legalization…
A new national survey has found that legalizing marijuana is more popular than providing free college education and instituting a $15 minimum wage across the country. The poll, conducted by Marist Poll, was funded by PBS NewsHour and NPR. In the poll, 1,346 adults from across the country were interviewed over the phone between July 15 and 17 about their…
A coalition of more than a hundred cannabis companies and industry groups has sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to include social equity in any legislation that is proposed as a way of ending marijuana prohibition. The letter, sent on Thursday last week, asserts that the work of Congress will be incomplete if they only stopped at legalizing marijuana…
Derivative cannabis products will soon hit licensed Canadian dispensaries. READ MORE: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/everything-know-marijuana-legalization-2-122100265.html?.tsrc=rss
New data released by Nielsen shows that people who live in states where marijuana is legal snack more than their counterparts in states with prohibitionist laws. The uptick in the sales of snacks was noticed for sweet and well as salty snacks. This study suggests that legalizing recreational marijuana can create a boom for the confectionary and snack segments of…
Supreme Cannabis Company (TSX: FIRE) (OTCQX: SPRWF) (FRA: 53S1) today announced its entry into a definitive agreement under which it will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of privately-held Truverra Inc. Per the update, the acquisition will be effected by way of a three-cornered amalgamation between Truverra, Supreme Cannabis and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Supreme Cannabis. The transaction…
New research shows that as marijuana started being legalized for recreational purposes in different states across the U.S., the reported cases of illicit grow sites within protected lands started falling. The research findings, released in Ecological Economics, specifically point out that illegal grows on national forests saw a major decline in the Pacific Northwest after cannabis legalization started. USDA’s Forest…