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The legal medical cannabis industry is a global powerhouse now, however, that was obviously not always the case. International economists estimate that the legal medical cannabis market topped $31.8 billion USD in 2022 and that by 2030 the market size could more than double. Yet, the emerging legal

A University of Connecticut student was shot and killed in a car during a marijuana robbery attempt in Hartford on Tuesday night, according to police. Hartford police responded to a report of a vehicle that had crashed into a bridge around 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of High Street and Walnut

A man has been charged after what is alleged to be 50kg of cannabis was found in the back of a van in New South Wales. The white van was allegedly speeding down Rakow Street in Broken Hill when NSW Police pulled the vehicle over. There was what is alleged to be 50kg of cannabis was found in the

But getting rich as a cannabis entrepreneur is still hard, even in Connecticut. Connecticut raked in $23 million worth of cannabis this May, NBC reports. And that figure isn’t an aberration. The raw figures show that money earned from adult-use cannabis sales increased monthly this year. In April

Since medical marijuana was legalized in Ohio in 2016, Dayton’s dispensaries have seen little police activity and no violent crime, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. When the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program began issuing provisional licenses to dispensaries preparing to take root in

If passed, Oregon landowners will be responsible for the environmental and human damage caused by screwed-up grow sites. If cannabis growers in Oregon don’t clean up their act, literally, soon landowners will pay the price as their migrant workers risk deportation. Oregon is an oasis for cannabis

It was 2011 when Devin Alexander was arrested for possessing marijuana. He was a senior in high school, and almost instantly his plans to join the U.S. Air Force went up in smoke. More than a decade later, three letters precede Alexander’s name: CEO, of a cannabis delivery company based in Newton

The findings on youth and law enforcement come via the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. Cannabis legalization in Canada has led to a drop in incidents between the country’s youth and its law enforcement, according to data published earlier this spring. The findings, which

The USA-Canada border is the last place you want to wind up in the event that you are driving an illegal shipment of nearly 400 pounds of pot and over half a million dollars. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) released a press release on June 5, announcing that an American driver was arrested

With the clock ticking until Maryland’s cannabis legalization date, small businesses are making plans and funding is now available. By the Fourth of July, the sky won’t be the only thing lighting up in the state. Marijuana is set to go legal on July 1, and now funding for small businesses wanting to

Denton voters approved the measure last year. In November, a huge majority of voters in Denton, Texas approved a measure decriminalizing low-level marijuana offenses. On Tuesday, leaders in the city defied those results. By a margin of 4-3, the Denton city council voted “against adopting the

A 29-year-old who pleaded guilty to a drug distribution charge for allegedly supplying Kalispell high school students with marijuana in 2022 earned a suspended three-year sentence late last month. Flathead County District Court Judge Amy Eddy handed down the suspended sentence with the state

Reversal makes Pasco first in Tri-Cities to permit pot sales. The city of Pasco, Washington this week officially lifted its ten-year ban on cannabis retailers, an historic change for that part of the state. The city council there voted 5-3 on Monday in favor of zoning changes that will lift the ban

A 39-year-old father was charged at the Sessions Court here today with child endangerment after his 11-year-old daughter ate homemade biscuits baked with cannabis. The accused, Mohamad Firdaus Hassim pleaded not guilty to the charge when it was read before Judge Nabisha Ibrahim. According to the

Texas has been doing marijuana reform the right way, moving slowly and evaluating the consequences while other states have flown ahead to full legalization. But there’s moving slowly and there’s not moving at all. This year, the Legislature — the Senate, specifically — unfortunately chose to stand

Missouri regulators listed ZIP codes that qualify as having historic incarceration rates for marijuana offenses in the new cannabis rules. None are in north St. Louis, where about half of the state’s Black population resides. When a marijuana legalization amendment was being criticized last year

A house fire in Moreno Valley was caused by an illegal electrical bypass to grow marijuana, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department reported Monday. Deputies from the Moreno Valley Station responded to the 15000 block of Carolina Avenue, near Lasselle Street, around 7 p.m. Sunday to a report of a

Police in North Yorkshire are warning landlords of the rise of cannabis farms and have put together a list of signs to watch out for. This comes as a rise in cannabis farms have been reported across the county, and police are worried about risks, including the risk of fire. An image the force shared

South East hemp producers joined Legalise Cannabis Victoria in Parliament on Wednesday 31 May to push for an inquiry into Victoria’s industrial hemp industry which they hope will give the trade a much needed boost. The motion was successfully passed, bringing new interest into the future of

Amendment 3 legalized recreational marijuana in Missouri. It also required all nonviolent marijuana-related misdemeanours and felonies to be expunged by June 8 and December 8, respectively. But the state doesn’t know how many cases are left, and experts say the courts aren't equipped to handle those