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Researchers Identify Two Main Motivating Factors Behind Unregulated Cannabis Purchases

Written by International Cannabis Chronicle on May 27, 2022. Posted in Archives, Business, Policy.

Legal cannabis is spreading across the planet, and with it, purchasing freedoms for some consumers. Yet, the unregulated market still exists even where cannabis can be purchased legally. Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario recently examined the factors that motivate a consumer or...

Australian Researchers Examine Motivation Behind Increased Support For Legalization

Written by Johnny Green on April 27, 2022. Posted in Politics.

Support for adult-use cannabis legalization is stronger now at the global level than at any other time since the start of international cannabis prohibition. Now that Uruguay, Canada, and Malta have passed national cannabis legalization measures and the sky didn’t fall, that should only further...

Survey Finds That People Prefer To Live In Legal Cannabis Jurisdictions

Written by Johnny Green on October 26, 2021. Posted in Politics.

The adult-use cannabis reform ‘experiment’ has been underway in the United States since 2012 when voters in Colorado and Washington State approved legalization initiatives on Election Day. Leading up to the successful votes in 2012 opponents pulled out all of the stops in an attempt to...

Poll Shows That Most In U.S. Want Their State Legalized

Written by Johnny Green on May 11, 2021. Posted in Politics.

Cannabis first became prohibited at the federal level in the United States in 1937. Complete prohibition was in place in the U.S. in all states until 1996 when California became the first state to legalize cannabis for medical use. Since that time, every state except two (Idaho and Nebraska) have...

U.S. Cannabis Tax Revenue Tops $3 Billion In 2020

Written by Johnny Green on April 6, 2021. Posted in Business.

Cannabis legalization in the United States at the state level has been a smashing success by virtually every measure. With New York, Virginia, and New Mexico having passed legalization measures via legislative action in 2021, the number of legal states is now up to 18. Washington D.C. has also legalized. Obviously,...

Cannabis Legalization Is A Political Issue Most Americans Agree On

Written by Johnny Green on December 22, 2020. Posted in Politics.

To say that the United States is divided when it comes to politics is a massive understatement. One could easily argue that the political climate in the U.S is more polarized than it has been in well over 100 years. However, at a time when most U.S. voters do not seem to agree on almost anything,...

Why The U.S. Still Pushes The Global Cannabis Reform Discussion Forward

Written by Marguerite Arnold on November 10, 2020. Posted in Politics.

If there is one thing most Americans can celebrate together across party lines about the turbulent events of last week, it is that cannabis reform moved forward, and significantly in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Four more states moved into the recreational camp, with a total of five in sum...

Will Cannabis Play A Big Role In The 2020 U.S. Election?

Written by Johnny Green on July 28, 2020. Posted in Politics.

Cannabis policy in the United States has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades. Non-hemp cannabis is still very much illegal at the federal level in the U.S., however, many states have reformed their cannabis laws, including a growing list of states that have legalized cannabis...

Is Recreational Cannabis Reform Finally Internationally A La Mode?

Written by Marguerite Arnold on February 24, 2020. Posted in Politics.

With Mike Bloomberg calling for decrim and record expungement in the United States as he tests the political race, and German politicians moving, inching, deliberating slowly towards acceptance of the new normal, it is clear that 2020 is going to be another showdown year on cannabis. Yet what exactly...

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