Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 5, 2021

Idaho activists have filed a new measure to legalize marijuana possession for adults that they hope to place before voters on the 2022 ballot. Meanwhile, a separate campaign to legalize medical cannabis in the state is also underway, with advocates actively collecting signatures to qualify that measure.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Effective January 1, 2022, most Philadelphia employers will be prohibited from requiring prospective employees to undergo testing for the presence of marijuana as a condition of employment. This rapidly evolving legal landscape presents new challenges for employers, especially multi-state employers.

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MassRoots

MARCH 5, 2019

In a joint effort, two state representatives submitted legislation to legalize, regulate, and tax a recreational cannabis market in Florida. “It’s coming one way or another, either by a 2020/2022 ballot measure or from us here in the legislature. . ” What would legalization look like under HB 1117?

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 27, 2024

May total items sold, in-state sales, and overall sales totals reached the third-most monthly totals since legalization in Illinois. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 These figures do not include taxes collected. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 February: $135,571,931.44

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The Blunt Truth

JUNE 30, 2022

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Meanwhile, in Nebraska, signature collecting continues for a ballot initiative. Congress removed marijuana banking from the COMPETES Act. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) called the move “critically important.”.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 7, 2022

States that have legalized marijuana for adult use collectively generated more than $3.7 The report follows up on an analysis MPP put out in January that looked at the total adult-use cannabis tax revenue collected by all legal states since recreational sales started in Colorado and Washington State in 2014.

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 6, 2022

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. New Hampshire’s Senate decided against legalizing. New Hampshire is surrounded by states where marijuana is legal for adult-use. The state Senate voted against legalization late last week. new hampshire.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 29, 2021

Columbus, OH – PRESS RELEASE – Today, the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is formally launching its effort to legalize adult-use cannabis by submitting summary language of an initiated statute to the Ohio Attorney General’s office. “We They see marijuana legalization as inevitable. Ohioans want this,” continued Haren.

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Veriheal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Rather than a ballot initiative , Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia legalized the plant for adult-use purposes via a legislative process. They follow in the footsteps of Vermont, which became the first legislative-driven legal cannabis state back in 2018. Legal Cannabis Business Framework .

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 12, 2021

Idaho marijuana activists have submitted revised text for a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in the state following a review by the state attorney general. Home cultivation would be prohibited, however, and there would be no legal and licensed system of cannabis retailers. Read the full report.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 25, 2021

Seyfarth Synopsis: In the first six months of 2021, several states legalized marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes, including New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and New Mexico. On June 22, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a bill that legalized recreational marijuana use by adults 21 years and older.

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The Blunt Truth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On May 25, 2022, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee signed “ The Rhode Island Cannabis Act ,” which grants adults aged 21 and older the right to possess and grow certain amounts of cannabis for recreational use. Retail sales are expected to begin as early as December 1, 2022.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

As we previously reported , on February 22, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed three separate cannabis reform bills into law ( NJ A21 , NJ A 1897 , and NJ A5342/NJ S3454 ), formally legalizing the use and possession of recreational marijuana in the Garden State. Other jurisdictions are catching up to the marijuana law frenzy.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 23, 2022

California activists on Wednesday announced that they have come up short on collecting enough signatures to qualify a measure to legalize psilocybin mushrooms for the state’s November ballot, though they aren’t giving up on a future election cycle bid. — Decriminalize California (@DecrimCA) March 17, 2022. Read more at.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

While cannabis legalization moves full steam ahead through much of the Northeast, the southeastern U.S. As such, we thought we’d take a moment to round up the status of cannabis legalization in the South, an area worth watching. has been notably slow to uptake major reforms.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 5, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Several states may have ballot initiatives in 2022. Several states seek to join the list of adult-legal jurisdictions via 2022 ballot initiatives. Idaho supporters can start collecting signatures.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 30, 2021

Kind Idaho Chair Jackee Winters is laser-focused on qualifying the group’s medical cannabis legalization initiative for the state’s 2022 ballot in order to help her daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, get legal access to cannabis. It’s time for Idaho to grow up,” she told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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The Blunt Truth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Nevada legalizes cannabis lounges. Could Nebraska legalize medical marijuana in 2022? A previous ballot initiative collected enough signatures, but the state’s Supreme Court invalidated it.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 18, 2021

Californians are ready for legal psilocybin mushrooms — and it sounds like they’re not going to wait around for legislators to allow them to have it. While legalizing mushrooms may sound like a pipedream, politicians are actually on board with softening the laws around psychedelics prohibition.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 24, 2022

Colorado could legalize psychedelics. Activists collected over 100,000 more signatures than needed to qualify the measure for the ballot, showing significant support for its passing. If passed, those with criminal records pertaining to aspects that would now be legal would have the right to petition the courts to seal their records.

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SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Cannabis reform activists in Ohio can now circulate petitions for a cannabis legalization measure after receiving permission to begin collecting signatures to place the proposal before lawmakers. Regulated, commercial cannabis production and sales would be legalized as well. Earlier Ohio Petition Nixed By AG.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Malta is legalizing adult-use cannabis. Lawmakers in Rhode Island work on legalization. The Parliament passed a law formally legalizing the use and growing of marijuana this week. south dakota. rhode island.

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

monthly figure topped each previous January totals since legalization. In comparison, the January 2022 sales total reached $117,251,759.72, while the 2021 January totals finished at $88,813,872.78. In comparison, the January 2022 sales total reached $117,251,759.72, while the 2021 January totals finished at $88,813,872.78.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Seyfarth Synopsis: In the first six months of 2021, several states legalized marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes, including New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and New Mexico. On June 22, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a bill that legalized recreational marijuana use by adults 21 years and older.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 17, 2022

Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, August, 2022. 21 Pages Posted: 12 Aug 2022. Date Written: August 11, 2022. Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 721, 2022, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, August, 2022, Available at SSRN: [link] or [link].

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 26, 2021

Kind Idaho Chair Jackee Winters is laser-focused on qualifying the group’s medical cannabis legalization initiative for the state’s 2022 ballot in order to help her daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, get legal access to cannabis. It’s time for Idaho to grow up,” she told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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Veriheal

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Activists in the state have finalized language for two cannabis ballot initiatives that they hope to place in front of the state’s voters in 2022, contingent on gathering at least 177,958 valid signatures from registered voters on each initiative. The first ballot initiative aims to legalize adult-use, or recreational, cannabis.

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Illinois News Joint

JANUARY 10, 2024

topped every monthly total since legalization. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 These figures do not include taxes collected. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 These figures do not include taxes collected. The December totals of $153,936,703.20 billion in 2023.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Washington, DC: Legal cannabis markets generated an estimated $2.8 million in excise taxes in fiscal year 2022 (July 2021 to June 2022), according to an analysis provided by The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

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Illinois News Joint

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since legalization, July 2023 sales totals only trail December 2022 totals of $143,899,826.30. In-state resident sales totaled $104,256,118.22, outperforming December 2022 totals of $102,460,209.38. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 These figures do not include taxes collected.

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Illinois News Joint

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

August continued Illinois’ strong monthly sales, recording the third-highest monthly sales totals since legalization at $139,224,010.03. and December 2022 totals of $143,899,826.30. August in-state resident sales set a new record at $104,940,014.62, outperforming July 2023 and December 2022 in-state resident totals.

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Veriheal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Cannabis legalization is a big hit! Despite what opponents of cannabis legalization have to say about it, it’s working. Cannabis legalization has increased job availability across many legal sectors of employment, including the agricultural industry. Americans have and continue to support cannabis legalization.

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 2, 2024

Illinois sold a record-high number of cannabis items in April 2024, while April sales totals dipped from March’s second-highest monthly total since legalization. During first two years of legalization in Illinois, April and the 420 holidays boosted monthly totals to outperform the surrounding months. February: $135,571,931.44

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 2, 2021

When Michigan voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2018, they mandated that “until 2022 or for at least two years” $20 million in marijuana tax revenue should go to research. 1, 2019, the day legal sales began, and Sept. The deadline for proposals is Friday, July 16. Department of Veteran Affairs’ most recent data.

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Illinois News Joint

JULY 11, 2023

June sales totals were the third-most monthly sales since recreational-use legalization began. in total June sales, only behind December 2022’s $143,899,826.30 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 These figures do not include taxes collected. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72

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Illinois News Joint

MAY 2, 2023

Since March 2022 to the end of that year, the out-of-state resident sales totals hovered around $40 million. In contrast, Illinois finished with the second-most monthly items sold and second-most monthly in-state resident sales since legalization. 2022 total monthly sales include: January: $117,251,759.72 February: $120,488,569.91

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Illinois News Joint

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

January out-of-state resident sales dropped to its lowest total since February 2020, the second month of legalization. Illinois countered its low out-of-state resident sales with strong in-state resident sales to kick off 2024 with its highest January in-state resident sales since legalization. February: $120,488,569.91

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