Mar 07 2024
According to a new report, the global legal marijuana market is already valued at tens of billions of dollars, and is expected to nearly quadruple by 2033. The report found that the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.4% from 2023 to 2033. North America has contributed more than 70% …
Mar 05 2024
There are a handful of measures in the United States Congress that would address marijuana and kratom that have a legitimate chance of being enacted into law over the next 12 months. In the US Congress, there has never been a bill passed into law that addresses kratom. The only standalone marijuana-related bill to ever …
Mar 04 2024
Custom Cones USA, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of pre rolled cones, today announced a campaign for the company’s new direct-to-consumer brand DaySavers, “the most compliant and tested rolling paper brand in the market.” “Have you ever wanted to get paid to smoke weed? DaySavers is offering the Ultimate Stoner Dream Job – an …
Mar 02 2024
Nearly a month after Vice President Kamala Harris said her and President Biden “changed federal marijuana policy”, marijuana reform advocates remain confused about what she meant, and why it hasn’t been addressed. “We changed federal marijuana policy, because nobody should have to go to jail just for smoking weed”, Vice President Harris said in a …
Feb 29 2024
Most Americans now live in a state that has legalized marijuana, and a vast majority have at least one marijuana dispensary in their county, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. The analysis found that 54% of Americans live in a state where the recreational use of marijuana is legal, just a dozen years after Colorado …
Feb 29 2024
Activists across the United States are working to make their state the next to legalize recreational marijuana. 24 states plus the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana. Although there are activists working to legalize marijuana in all of the other 26 states, some have achieved far more progress towards accomplishing this goal than others. …
Feb 22 2024
Legislation to fully deschedule marijuana was filed in the US House of Representatives in September, the same month as the “Stop Pot Act” to withhold federal funds from legal marijuana states. Nearly half a year later, one of the bills has drastically more support than the other. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would …
Feb 22 2024
Among the states that have not yet legalized recreational marijuana, most have active marijuana legalization bills. However, only a few states have bills that are actually advancing through their state’s legislature this session. Currently there are 24 recreational marijuana states (23 that allow licensed sales), all of which passed their legalization laws since 2012. The …
Feb 20 2024
There’s over a dozen marijuana-related bills currently active in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. In December, 2022, President Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act into law, making it the first standalone piece of marijuana legislation to ever be signed by a US president. Since then, lawmakers have filed …
Feb 14 2024
At the start of 2012, no state in the US had legalized recreational marijuana; 12 years later and zero has increased to 24. Since Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana during the November, 2012 election, an average of around two states every year have done the same, with the number now nearing half of the entire …
