Marijuana sales in Colorado totaled nearly $1.75 billion in 2019 according to data released by the Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division. The $1,747,990,628 in sales includes both recreational and medical marijuana and is a sizeable increase from 2018, when sales totaled $1,545,691,080.
Read MoreIn November, we wrote about a lawsuit filed against Amazon by a New Jersey man claiming he was wrongfully terminated due to a failed marijuana drug test despite being a patient in the state’s medical marijuana program. Now, New Jersey state lawmakers have advanced a bill that would require workers’ compensation to cover medical marijuana.
Read MoreKentucky is well-known for its support of the hemp industry, but it has been slow to come around on marijuana. That may be changing.
Read MoreLast Friday, Leafly released its latest annual jobs report and the numbers are encouraging. Leafly reports that the legal cannabis industry supports 243,700 full-time-equivalent jobs as of January 2020. That number grew by 33,700 new jobs over the past 12 months, which makes legal cannabis the fastest-growing industry in the United States.
Read MoreNew Jersey is often mentioned among the states that may legalize recreational marijuana in 2020. And for good reason. The state has taken several steps over the past year to reform its cannabis laws, including creating the New Jersey Industrial Hemp Pilot Program and overhauling its medical marijuana program to address supply problems, relax quantity restrictions, permit home delivery, and add workplace protections for card holders.
Read MoreLast week, the Marijuana Regulatory Agency announced that the sale of recreational marijuana can begin December 1, 2019, which is earlier than most anticipated. In another pleasant surprise, the recreational market will not be required to start from scratch with new grows earmarked specifically for recreational marijuana.
Read MoreAcknowledging certain changes were needed to the state’s landmark cannabis legalization bill, Illinois lawmakers passed a trailer bill last week containing several substantive revisions. Here are the four key changes.
Read MoreThe majority of U.S. states have legalized medical marijuana. Yet many of those same states do not have laws on the books regarding testing for marijuana in the workplace, and in the absence of such laws, many companies continue to test employees for marijuana and take adverse action based on positive tests.
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