As of April 2024, recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states, or nearly half the country, according to thePew Research Center. The states where recreational weed is legal are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,Illinois,Maine,Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, ...
The exception, he added, was Nevada, where recreational weed became legal in 2016. That year, 2.09 percent of tests came back positive for the drug, but that number jumped to 2.98 percent the year after. To be sure, there are caveats around the data. Drug tests say nothing about the ra...
As of November 2024, 24 states have legalized cannabis for recreational use; cannabis (as opposed to THC-free CBD) is still (more or less) wholly illegal in 11 states, while the remaining 15 allow for legal medical use, with varying restrictions. Here’s a rundown of where weed is legal...
A map of the U.S. is presented showing the price of marijuana in each state, noting that the states where recreational marijuana use is legal are also the states where it is least expensive, with Oregon as the state with the cheapest weed.BiFrank...
Michigan’s adult-use market ultimately opened for business in December of 2019 although the industry launched with some 80% of the state’s municipalities having passed bans on the recreational cannabis industry.Despite its slow trod toward regulated sales, however, Michigan still boasts some of th...
An employee pulls marijuana out of a large canister for a customer at the LoDo Wellness Center in downtown Denver, Colorado, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Colorado has just legalized the commercial production, sale, and recreational use of marijuana, while Washington State will begin its...
Spooner stated, “I am not yet ready, nor are we called upon now, to give that quasi pledge of statehood, or to imply that they will ever reach a condition where it shall be either for their interests, or certainly for ours, to let them be one of the members of this Union.” [...
Voters in Colorado and Washington voted yesterday to legalize recreational marijuana, while federal laws still outlaw the drug. What gives?
These trends would seep into the 21st century. In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational use. As of right now, the recreational use of cannabis islegal in 24 statesas well as Washington D.C.
“You’re going to make these state-legal programs stronger,” says Adam Goers, an executive at medical and recreational cannabis giant Columbia Care. He co-chairs a coalition of corporate and other players that’s pushing for rescheduling. ...