A Hypothetical Case for Legalizing Marijuana in Missouri

To avoid going to jail, Mark Shanklin from St. Louis needs to persuade the Missouri Supreme Court that voters in the state approved a farming-friendly constitutional amendment with the express intent of legalizing the cultivation of marijuana back in 2014 already. Forgetting for now the question of whether he will succeed or not, he argues in court on November 7, his case raises an important hypothetical. What would happen to Shanklin if, somehow, Missouri legalized cannabis? In this parallel state, Shanklin and others like him would not go to jail…

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An Etiquette Guide to Entertaining with Weed

Since the start of this year, the masses moving to the coastlines of California for Hollywood, the tech industry, or just the freedom of the sun-soaked Wild West, are coming face to face with a new custom: Wherever they go, cannabis is seemingly everywhere. Now that it is legal recreationally, from San Francisco’s misty shores to the hills of Los Angeles, pot is as common as wine. Weed is widely available wrapped in boxes, or cooked into exotic edibles and multi-course meals. It has become an essential addition to casual…

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Michigan Invites ‘Mega’ Medical Marijuana Cultivators into State

The State of Michigan is opening its medical pot industry to massive-scale grow operations. This is according to a Thursday-released advisory. Last year, when the state Legislature passed bills to allow medical marijuana, it provided for three different classes of growing licenses: Class A permits up to 500 plants. Class B allows up to 1,000 plants. Class C licenses up to 1,500 plants. However, the legal advisory, released just last week, specifies that a single individual or business is able to apply for as many Class C licenses as they…

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What Will Happen To Maine’s Marijuana Tax Dollars?

On Thursday last week, a legislative committee decided to rewrite Maine’s recreational cannabis law to make the tax rate twice what it was before, give host towns a tax cut, and secure residents of Maine a two-year head start in the pot industry. However, leaders of the committee have concerns that the bill will not survive the LePage administration.   They are worried that officials under LePage would shred the bill, either by delaying implementation of it or by vetoing it outright, even if a special legislative session passes the…

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