Olypmia – It's a question that Republican senators have asked during state budget battles from time to time: Why can't Washington, flush with marijuana tax revenue far outpacing old projections, use that money to help solve the state's school-funding crisis?
Well, it can. To a small extent it...
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Cincinnatti - A college student whose life savings was seized because police said they smelled marijuana on his luggage is getting all of his cash back — plus interest - after nearly two years of a legal fight.
Police stopped Clarke and took the money from a checked bag while he was waiting...
The marijuana gold rush is in full effect, depending on what part of the country you live in. For those on the west coast, cannabis has been decriminalized and legalized for recreational use along the entire Pacific Rim. Even states along the eastern seaboard - Massachusetts and Maine - now have...
Piles of cash.
It's often one of the biggest challenges for a marijuana company.
By law, customers can't use credit cards to buy marijuana, and banks won't open accounts for cannabusinesses because they are federally illegal. For the most part, customers pay with cash, stores compensate...
West Springfield, Mass. — We are less than a month away until it becomes legal to possess, smoke and grow marijuana in Massachusetts. State lawmakers have different ideas on how to spend the marijuana money, but they all agree the tax rate could go higher.
Starting on December 15th, adults...
Over 63 million Americans now live in states where it's legal to consume recreational weed.
Americans said "yes we cannabis" on Election Day, when voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada passed ballot initiatives fully legalizing the use and possession of marijuana without a...
In 2012, backers of Colorado's landmark constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana pressed their case by touting the financial benefits to the state's schools.
Four years later, backers of a record number of school tax measures on this year's ballot are finding the need to...
Pueblo, Colo. - One southern Colorado community will decide on Tuesday whether to keep recreational marijuana shops.
Pueblo County Commissioners looked at a handful of projects funded by marijuana tax money on Wednesday morning.
Future projects that depend on tax money from marijuana won't...
The debate about the legalization of marijuana has been prevalent in North American culture for over 50 years. The decision by the state of Colorado in October 2014 to legalize marijuana for recreational use was seen a revolutionary by those on both sides of the divide.
Colorado and Marijuana...
One published media report this month said the campaign to legalize marijuana in California had raised $18 million. Within days, other major news outlets pegged the total at just one-third that amount, while a nonprofit campaign watchdog group said the figure was $11 million.
Why the...
A proposed tax on marijuana and marijuana products advanced in second reading Monday before the Petersburg borough assembly. However, the assembly voted to change the wording for future use of the proceeds of such a tax.
f voters approve commercial marijuana sales in the borough in next...
Voters in Maine and a handful of other states are deciding whether to legalize recreational marijuana this November. One thing that could swing the vote is the possibility of millions of dollars in tax revenue from retail marijuana sales. Colorado was the first state in the country to roll out a...
The debate about the legalization of marijuana has been prevalent in North American culture for over 50 years. The decision by the state of Colorado in October 2014 to legalize marijuana for recreational use was seen a revolutionary by those on both sides of the divide.
Colorado and Marijuana...
San Diego voters will be deciding on two marijuana measures on the November ballot: Proposition 64, which would legalize recreational pot statewide; and Measure N, which would impose a 5 percent tax on sales of non-medical pot if it's legalized.
The city's Independent Budget Analyst last week...
Hello fellow growers. This is my second grow, and I'm doing a few things different. On my first grow I had a Road Runner in a DWC setup under a 400 hp in a 2 x 2 grow tent. This time around I will be doing a Drip System in a 4 x 8. For starters I don't have any equipment, so I will be doing this...
I looked at southern oregon seeds, but they don't have exactly what i was looking for. i like they accept money orders and USA based, but their african and such not for me.
Malawi (fem or reg) or if any special Congo or others equivalent to malawi gold/golden tiger/zamnesia etc? durban not so...
Glenwood Springs - Like the Roaring Fork River, millions of dollars tied to the marijuana excise tax are flowing into Glenwood Springs.
"It's a lot of money," Rob Stein, Roaring Fork School District superintendent, said.
The Roaring Fork School District received a $9 million grant from the...
Sometime in the next year or two, marijuana will be legal for personal consumption in Canada.
The federal government is currently working on the exact laws around this, but all indications so far point to it being produced, sold, and taxed much like alcohol, i.e. not sold to kids, sold through...
The growing legalization of marijuana in the United States — 25 states and the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis in some form — has largely been an economic boon for both private and government interests.
According to ArcView Market Research, a cannabis investment and research...