“A draft set of rules for social consumption areas is expected to be released by April 25. Before they’re finalized, people will be able to weigh in May 25 at a public hearing, according to Denver Excise and Licenses. The department responsible for licensing Denver’s pot shops hopes to start approving businesses to open social consumption areas […]
AL.com found that Alabama courts are not sending many people to prison for marijuana possession anymore, although police are still making arrests and most of the remaining prison inmates are black. As of October 2016, more than 80 percent of the 220 state prisoners convicted of first-degree marijuana possession were black, according to the Alabama […]
Colorado has legalized pot but appears set to make it a crime to grow marijuana in operations run by co-ops. Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, but it has a nagging black-market problem. Law enforcement and state lawmakers attribute the black-market problem in part to weak restrictions on who can grow pot. Source: Colorado set […]
Legislation that would increase the number of licenses to grow medical marijuana and Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposal to give a tax break to manufacturers top the list of unresolved issues as the General Assembly heads into the final day of its 2017 session. Source: Marijuana, manufacturing top list of unresolved issues for Maryland General Assembly […]
By The Associated Press, Associated Press A Biddeford business owner hoping to start selling pot next year is giving his products away for free for now. The Portland Press Herald reports that Jack Sargent of the Biddeford-based Cannabis Shack is accepting donations for shipping and handling while waiting for the state to issue retail licenses. […]
Montana lawmakers may have the opportunity to study legalizing recreational marijuana in the next year or so. House Joint Resolution 35, heard Monday, would create a committee that would study how recreational legalization would be carried out in Montana. They’d look at things like if liquor control should be a guide for marijuana control, how […]
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon state lawmakers who fear heightened marijuana enforcement by federal agents overwhelmingly approved Monday a proposal to protect pot users from having their identities or cannabis-buying habits from being divulged by…” the cannabis shops, according to: Oregon set to shield marijuana user data from US officials | Star Tribune. The Aricle by […]
State officials will begin accepting applications to license 24 medical marijuana grow operations in June and will review them in July. Once awarded, license holders will have nine months to meet all the requirements of the program. The Ohio Department of Commerce plans to release application forms and instructions in the next two to three […]
“Canadians will get their first look at the Liberal vision for legalized marijuana on Thursday, CBC News has confirmed” as MSNBC reports. Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has assured Canadians that legalizing marijuana will make it harder for young people to access pot and take profits away from organized crime. It’s expected the government will follow a […]
As officials work to [lift a ban on] medical marijuana sales in the city, they are taking a different approach to the sale of recreational marijuana. A ballot question in November will ask voters if they want to ban the sale of recreational marijuana in the city. The statewide recreational marijuana initiative passed last November, but […]
