Marijuana bill passes in Michigan, making it the first state in the Midwest to free the weed. Learn more about Michigan's legal marijuana in this post from Detroit Free Press. With a last-minute infusion of cash and support that was baked into Proposal 1 from the start, voters decided to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use Tuesday by a comfortable 56-44 percent ... Continue Reading
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Which Marijuana Jobs Are Valued the Most?
Marijuana industry employment is expected to see an annual growth of 220 percent in 2019. This post from Westword takes a closer look at the ranking of marijuana jobs by paycheck. The legal marijuana industry is booming, according to a new report from one of commercial pot's largest job recruiters. But which jobs are paying the most? In a recent analysis of the marijuana ... Continue Reading
Colorado’s Legal Marijuana Safe from Feds, for Now
Senator Cory Gardner has got an assurance from President Trump that the federal government will not interfere with Colorado’s legal marijuana industry. Read more about how Trump administration has abandoned the crackdown on legal marijuana. The Trump administration is abandoning a Justice Department threat to crack down on recreational marijuana in states where it is legal, a ... Continue Reading
No Such Thing as Legal Marijuana Under Federal Law
While it’s legal for Americans to work in their country’s cannabis industry, it in effect isn’t for others, whose immigration status makes them vulnerable. Read more in this post from Globalnews.ca. At the time, it must have seemed like a meaningless bureaucratic detail. Shimon Avta, an Israeli agronomist living in Nevada, was having some U.S. immigration documents ... Continue Reading
This Cannabis Lawsuit Could Reshape the Industry
A landmark cannabis lawsuit that has the potential to reshape the medical cannabis policy, has been filed against Jeff Sessions and the DEA. Read more in this post from The Motley Fool. There are few industries with a faster growth rate at the moment than legal marijuana. In a 2017 report from Marijuana Business Daily titled "Marijuana Business Factbook 2017," it was ... Continue Reading