Within just the past month that recreational cannabis has been legalized, Minnesota has become an innovator on multiple fronts in this still very young industry. For starters, the home state of Prince generated approximately $600,000 in tax revenue during the
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Red Lake Nation Dispensary
Being the newest state to fully legalize cannabis within its border, Minnesota has had ample economic and employment opportunities created for the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Along with creating thousands of Minnesotan jobs, the Minnesota cannabis industry generated over half…
California Cannabis Union Scandal
Despite the current federal prohibition on cannabis that will likely stretch well into the 2020’s, the cannabis industry is becoming economically stronger and more normalized with every passing year. Whether that be the increasing size of cannabis-related conventions such as…
Minnesota Generates $600,000 in Tax Revenue From First Month of Sales
If there’s a series of undeniable facts about cannabis legalization that the most strict prohibitionists will continue to deny are the economic benefits of legalizing this massively popular and medically utilized crop. American states that have legalized cannabis recreationally have…
Maine’s “User-Friendly” Proposed Regulation Change
Maine’s cannabis regulators have proposed a new set of regulations meant to assist businesses service tourists. Namely, retailers, manufacturers, and cultivators would be allowed to deliver product to hotels and businesses. This would be a substantial departure from the regulatory…
Two Cannabis and Psychedelic Amendments Advance in Congress
Anyone familiar with how large-scale change is implemented in a democracy should know that most historic change doesn’t happen overnight. Whether that be the LGBTQ+ protections that have been enshrined in law or the civil rights movement, the many widespread…
Op-Ed: California’s Labor Peace Agreements in Cannabis
In eight years of work in the legal cannabis industry on the west coast, I thought I had seen it all. Then the news broke in May about the Professional Technical Union Local 33 (ProTech) and now in August about…
Senator Files Bill To Prepare For Federal Marijuana Legalization With Alcohol-Like Regulations
As the American cannabis industry increases drastically in both size and total retail sales, the inevitability of federal legalization seems to be almost set in stone with every extra billion dollars that the industry produces. Although a few stubborn career…
National Interdisciplinary Cannabis Symposium 2023
On December 1-3, 2023 at Portland State University, the American Judges Association will be partnering up with numerous prestigious legal organizations, including National Judicial College, the American Bar Association Judicial Division and most importantly the the National Council for Juvenile…
Why Can’t the Veterans’ Administration Speak About Cannabis?
Despite running on a platform of guaranteed and quickly enacted federal cannabis reform, President Joe Biden hasn’t authorized or signed into law any large-scale reformative measures on par with the legislative possibilities of the MORE or Safe Banking Act. The…