Gov. Newsom Proposes Eliminating One of California's Many Marijuana Taxes
The cultivation tax has driven up the cost of growing cannabis, fueling illegal operations and the state’s enormous black market.
The cultivation tax has driven up the cost of growing cannabis, fueling illegal operations and the state’s enormous black market.
Nearly two dozen towns that had said no to legal weed shops are reconsidering.
Black markets thrive under mismanaged legalization.
A new 2022 law will punish anybody “aiding and abetting” unlicensed dealers. It will most certainly harm low-level workers.
If only they would apply that lesson to other goods and services.
Despite state legalization, federal prohibition makes break-ins harder on marijuana shops and manufacturers.
Legalizing a market isn’t enough; you have to set the participants free.
Legislation advances and a ballot initiative circulates in response to a constitutional amendment that was struck down by the courts.
Lawmakers want to pay cities to help cannabis businesses navigate the state’s oppressive bureaucracy.
If left unamended, the bill could have crushed much of the nascent industry.
Maybe this year it will pass the Senate too.
Legalizing interstate sales and allowing outdoor growing would reduce the cannabis industry's energy consumption.
No home cultivation? Increased criminal penalties? This is not the way to end a drug war.
Protected financial access for politically targeted industries
The SAFE Banking Act is not a pork-barrel spending bill. Is that why it’s struggling?
A lesson for other governments making legalization plans
When the government tries to hoover up all the money earned from legalized drugs, this is what happens.
West Hollywood's Lowell Farms Cafe serves food, drinks, and marijuana.
There are stories of marijuana business owners showing up at California's tax agency offices with trash bags filled with cash, even though the agency generally doesn't allow cash payments.
It's a historic moment in Congress, but Senate support remains uncertain.
The SAFE Banking Act will be the first stand-alone marijuana legalization bill to reach the floor of the U.S. House.
Ontario has lost millions trying to sell cannabis.
The black market still dominates. And more enforcement and fines aren’t going to fix it.
Giving consumers more accurate dosing for vaped THC is a huge market opportuntiy, but it has important public policy implications too.
High taxes and harsh regulations lead to a $223 million cut in budget projections.
A bill introduced Thursday with bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress would stop federal law enforcement from targeting states with legal weed.
High taxes and slow bureaucracy keeps the black market alive.
The black market is how you get things done when government gets in the way.
In some states, a marijuana conviction can exclude you from the newly legal industry.
Gov. Cuomo throws his support behind a ban on home cultivation, possibly on behalf of already entrenched pot groups.
Governor Newsom wants to fight the black market. That's how we got the drug war in the first place.
It's legal, but the health department thinks it's somehow different when added to other products.
Blame misguided federal policies, not the network.