How America lost the war on Marijuana: Within a decade, the U.S. went from cracking down on marijuana use to becoming a $47 billion industry. But the road to having dispensaries on every corner, the smell of weed smoke freely in the air and criminal records expunged didn’t happen overnight. It took a couple of states leading the charge – Colorado and Washington in 2012 – to then ripple into near nation-wide legalization. There are now 21 states where cannabis has been legalized for recreational use. Every corner of New York City , for example, is an assault on the nostrils with people lighting up a joint as early as before or just after their morning commute. However, not everyone is on board with the marijuana revolution. Doctors and advocates have highlighted concerns about excessive use of cannabis in high risk groups, especially the youth. DailyMail.com has examined when exactly America’s war on drugs changed, the challenges the industry faces and the future of the billion-dollar business.
Though “wine mom” culture has long been the source of many a mommy meme and largely socially acceptable, marijuana-using moms are stepping out of the shadows and proudly extolling the virtues of cannabis.
New York State lawmakers are on the verge of a deal to legalize adult recreational marijuana. Legalization would eventually generate $3.5 billion a year in economic activity, according to estimates by Gov. Cuomo’s office. NBC News’ Ben Popken reports.
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Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to legalize weed in November 2018, ending decades of marijuana prohibition.
Cannabis use has been becoming more and more mainstream in the Mitten state since medical marijuana was legalized a decade ago. But the vague 2008 law resulted in legal mayhem for medical marijuana patients and caregivers — and the industry was mostly underground.
Once lawmakers added regulations in 2016 the medical marijuana market went corporate, setting the stage for the 2018 legalization vote.
Now more than half a year after Michigan voters approved the ballot proposal, there are still no retail stores where people can legally buy marijuana due to bureaucratic processes. But that doesn’t mean people aren’t smoking it if they’ve got it.
State officials recently issued rules that will guide the start of the industry — and some predict the first sales will happen in the first months of 2020.
James Bowman grows for more medical marijuana patients than any grower in Oregon. His farm, located in Jackson County, this year will produce pot for 200 medical marijuana patients.
With New York lawmakers considering legalizing recreational marijuana for adults, WXXI News reporter Veronica Volk shares a few things you should know.
A Texas father nearly had his daughter taken away from him for treating her autism with medical marijuana. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Peter Mougey discuss this issue.
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On November 6, voters will determine if recreational marijuana is legalized. If the measure passes, here’s what recreational marijuana use will look like in Michigan.
Legalized marijuana is already changing the legal landscape and it’s creating challenges in other states. Colorado recently reduced the number of plants people can grow and strengthened penalties in hopes of weakening black market sales. In San Francisco and Seattle, past misdemeanor convictions for pot are now being cleared. People were being barred from jobs and public benefits for something that’s now legal. 5 Investigates’ Mike Beaudet finds that legalization here in Massachusetts hasn’t gotten rid of the tensions between users and law enforcement.
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Medical marijuana is a hot topic in the US. Pot activists are constantly battling the government to allow for the use of weed to cure or treat illness. But what is the scientific community’s take on the issue? Trace finds out.
“Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html
“A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever.”
“Cannabis Induces a Clinical Response in Patients with Crohn’s Disease: a Prospective Placebo-Controlled Study.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23648372
“The marijuana plant Cannabis sativa has been reported to produce beneficial effects for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, but these have not been investigated in controlled trials. We performed a prospective trial to determine whether cannabis can induce remission in patients with Crohn’s disease.”
“Active Component Of Marijuana Has Anti-Cancer Effects, Study Suggests” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181217.htm
“Guillermo Velasco and colleagues, at Complutense University, Spain, have provided evidence that suggests that cannabinoids such as the main active component of marijuana (THC) have anticancer effects on human brain cancer cells.”
“Pathways mediating the effects of cannabidiol on the reduction of breast cancer cell proliferation, invasion, and metastasis” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410650/
“Invasion and metastasis of aggressive breast cancer cells are the final and fatal steps during cancer progression.”
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Twenty nine states have legalized marijuana but will Wisconsin follow suit? Just this week a lawmaker in Madison proposed a bill that would do just that, but the proposed bill has a long way to go before becoming a law.
