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Report: Legal Marijuana Industry Employs Over 240,000 Full-Time Workers

NORML

Overall, the total number of full-time jobs in the licensed cannabis industry has doubled since 2017. States adding the greater number of new cannabis-related jobs were Massachusetts (10,266 jobs) and Oklahoma (7,300 jobs). ” Full text of the study, “Leafly Jobs Report 2020,” appears online here.

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Cannabis is My Lifesaver

Americans for Safe Access

He later founded Veterans Initiative 22, a Maryland based nonprofit organization that focuses on improving veteran’s mental health through medical cannabis advocacy, in October of 2017. Eryck also founded the Maryland Hemp Exchange which seeks to help convert farmers from traditional crops like corn or soybeans to grow industrial hemp.

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Philadelphia: Marijuana Treatment Admissions Drop Eighty Percent

NORML

This is likely a result of a 2014 ordinance decriminalizing possession along with new procedures adopted by District Attorney Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney elected in 2017. The post Philadelphia: Marijuana Treatment Admissions Drop Eighty Percent appeared first on NORML.

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Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Correlates with Higher Home Values

NORML

The analysis reported, "Between April 2017 and April 2021, property values rose $17,113 more in states where recreational marijuana is legal, compared to states where marijuana is illegal or limited to medicinal use.". The post Analysis: Marijuana Legalization Correlates with Higher Home Values appeared first on NORML.

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Australia: Cannabis Possession Now Depenalized in the Capital Territory

NORML

Between 2017 and 2018, Australian police made over 72,000 marijuana-related arrests – 92 percent of which were for personal possession. The use of marijuana in public remains prohibited. The ACT’s policy conflicts with Australian federal law, which defines cannabis-related activities as criminal offenses.

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Be there for veterans

Americans for Safe Access

In 2017, he founded Florida Mission Zero with the help of his wife Danielle. He was honorably discharged in 2005 and eventually settled in Florida where he started a career in real estate and began to raise a family. For years he suffered the effects of PTSD in silence as the existing medical system for veterans failed to help.

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DEA Report: Fewer Marijuana Seizures, But More Arrests In 2018

NORML

This total represents as 17 percent decline from the agency’s 2017 totals and a 66 percent decline since 2016. million in 2017 to 1.4 However, while the total number of DEA-seized plants fell in 2018, seizures of indoor cannabis plants nearly doubled – rising from 304,000 plants in 2017 to just under 600,000 in 2018.

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