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Black market sales of marijuana thrived under a system that totally outlawed the drug. For decades, illicit sales lined the pockets of violent drug cartels and gangs. Legalizing marijuana, as California did with Prop. 64, would effectively quash this problem, or so it was believed. After all, when marijuana is sold in highly-regulated stores, it…

While California was at one time the most progressive state in terms of medical marijuana legalization, as it was the first state to allow for such an unheard of thing in 1996, there are other states, and the District of Columbia, that have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use. However, it should be noted that…

In 2015, a bill was first introduced that was designed to allow states to have legal medical marijuana or even recreational marijuana without any fear that the federal government would step in and enforce existing federal drug laws. This is important, because marijuana is still a Schedule One controlled substance on the United States Controlled…

On November 8, 2016, California voters passed Proposition 64 – the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. This law has many effects for the use and sale of marijuana within California. While the guidelines for personal use are fairly clear within the law, cannabis business owners face greater uncertainty. Their challenge is to adapt their business…

In a predictable, but utterly absurd, effort to crack down on medical marijuana in states where it is legal, Attorney General Jeff Sessions III, is claiming that marijuana has no medical uses and is a major reason for what he calls the historic drug epidemic he sees us in. Currently, Sessions cannot use any federal…

According to a recent news article from Bloomberg, local municipalities are putting the finishing touches on their local regulation of recreational marijuana sales. Industry experts believe that areas with more successful medical marijuana businesses are likely to also have top recreational marijuana businesses. As discussed in this article, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Alameda rank…

We have been waiting to see if there was going to be a budget agreement to prevent a government shutdown for much of the first 100 days of President Donald J. Trump’s administration. Even though it looked like there would be no hope of reaching a joint resolution given the partisan nature of Congress these…

In more than half of the states in the union, as well as the District of Columbia, medical marijuana has already been legalized. Some of the states have had legal medical marijuana for more than a decade, and others have just taken the first steps in the past few years. Some of the jurisdictions have…

In the recent National Football League (NFL) draft, we heard a lot of stories about the draft position of at least one highly ranked collegiate athlete was sliding because of a failed drug test. However, it should be noted that he did not actually test positive for marijuana. Rather, he tested positive for what is…

What started out as a small grassroots effort to get patients their much-needed medical cannabis has become a billion-dollar industry. While we often hear about how much money is being made in Colorado, which was among the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use, it is California that is leading the nation in sales, according…