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Americans Will Cultivate Over 4 Billion Grams Of Homegrown Cannabis in 2022

Veriheal

Cultivation Costs for Homegrowers. Indoor cannabis cultivation allows an average of four harvests each year instead of one. However, indoor cultivation is generally more expensive. Research from New Frontier Data estimates that around 3 million people grow their own cannabis at home in the United States.

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New Data Reveals Legal States Experienced Fewer Cases of EVALI

Veriheal

An Analysis of Nationwide EVALI Data. However, the study also discovered that states allowing home cultivation disrupted trends. Among medical-only states, those that allowed home cultivation had 60% lower rates of EVALI than those that did not.

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Report: Domestic Hemp Production Soaring in 2019

NORML

State regulators licensed farmers and researchers to cultivate over 500,000 total acres of industrial hemp in the first half of 2019, according to data compiled by the organization VoteHemp.com. “Since the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp cultivation in the US has grown rapidly,” the group summarizes in a press release.

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DEA: Marijuana Plant Seizures Spike, Arrests Fall in 2019

NORML

Federal law enforcement agents and their partners made fewer marijuana-related arrests in 2019, but seized a far greater number of plants than they did the year before, according to annual data compiled by US Drug Enforcement Administration. ” DEA data for 2019 is online here. million in 2018. .

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Report: Legal Cannabis Once Again Ranks Among Nation’s Most Valuable Crops

NORML

This economic data shows once again why legalization is a preferable policy option over criminal prohibition.". “Legalizing and regulating cannabis provides for more job opportunities, greater tax revenues, and safe access to high quality products at increasingly affordable prices,” NORML’s State Policy Manager Jax James said.

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Research – Paper: Distribution of trespass cannabis cultivation and its risk to sensitive forest predators in California and Southern Oregon – Published: September 1, 2021

Cannabis Law Report

Illegal cannabis cultivation on public lands has emerged as a major threat to wildlife in California and southern Oregon due to the rampant use of pesticides, habitat destruction, and water diversions associated with trespass grow sites. Here’s the Abstract.

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Corruption in the Legal Cannabis Industry: Temptation Facilitated by Greed and Cannabis Cultivation

Veriheal

The newly emerging legal cannabis industry has cultivated more than just cannabis and jobs. Some studies such as “ The US Cannabis Cultivation Report: 2019 Legal and Illicit Output by State “, conducted by New Frontier Data, suggest that by 2025, America could be producing an estimated 34.4