Marijuana tax revenues fall short of projections in many states, including Colorado
States have experimented with taxes based on price, weight and potency, but competition is heating up as more states legalize and the market matures.
States have experimented with taxes based on price, weight and potency, but competition is heating up as more states legalize and the market matures.
The phrase ‘medical marijuana’ might give you the image of people buying plants or dried marijuana to smoke. But that’s not always the case.
Midterm voters in Utah, Missouri, Michigan and North Dakota will decide whether to join the 31 US states that have some form of legal marijuana. But ballot initiatives can only take pot so far.
In the 1930s, Harry J. Anslinger, the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, embarked on a fierce anti-marijuana campaign. Highlighted by the 1936 anti-marijuana film Reefer Madness – where marijuana…
Two-thirds of all US states now have some kind of legal pot, and support for legalization has never been higher. But ballot initiatives can only take legalization so far, researchers say.
The myth has been debunked time and time again.
An era of prohibition may soon be over for marijuana, and powerful players are watching. A legal expert explains how smaller, local producers can keep their pot in the game.
Research from the last few decades suggest marijuana helps more than it harms. But Jeff Sessions’ proposed crackdown would take us back nearly a century.
Pot taxes will change the ability of some to purchase recreational marijuana.
Before marijuana was legalized, people argued over how it would affect taxes, crime and teens. But only now is there enough data to settle some of these debates.