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The Company welcomes adult-use customers at its eight dispensaries across the state and will create 120 new jobs in surrounding communities
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ( Curaleaf or the Company ), a leading U.S. provider of consumer products in cannabis, today announced it will begin serving adult-use consumers across its eight dispensaries in Arizona.
Today Arizona became the 11th state to commence adult-use cannabis sales; the announcement comes after Proposition 207, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act (SSAA), passed by a majority vote last November. Under the new law, adults 21 years of age or older may use, possess, or transfer up to one ounce of cannabis. Adult-use purchases are subject to a 16% excise tax and the potential tax revenue, estimated to reach $166 million, will fund community colleges, infrastructure, public safety and public health programs. The SSAA also
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The Yuma City Council, with a 6-1 vote, adopted an ordinance that adds a new chapter on recreational marijuana to the city code.
Councilwoman Karen Watts, during the Dec. 16 meeting, voted against the ordinance because it prohibits marijuana testing facilities within the city limits.
Watts, a healthcare provider, reiterated her reasons for voting against the amended ordinance. âIâll be voting no as Iâm concerned with the prohibition of testing facilities. The testing facilities that were left out to me are about science and safety. Government research is woefully underfunded and deficient in the area of cannabis. And I believe as people are looking to replace narcotics, anxiety meds and sleeping aids with marijuana, the consumer needs to know the health benefits and risks. So Iâm voting no because we left out the testing facilities,â she said.
What a year! Pandemic, civic unrest, national elections 2020 has been a year of tumult that can t be done with soon enough. But when it comes to drug policy, it wasn t all bad; in fact, a lot of it was pretty darned good. Some of it however was quite tragic Here s our year-end round up of the biggest drug policy stories of the year.
Update: The 2020 top ten list now goes to eleven, with Congress removing the drug conviction question from the federal financial aid for college form. See below.
The Pandemic
Just as it has infiltrated just about every aspect of American life, the coronavirus pandemic has been felt in the world of drugs and drug policy. Social distancing requirements early in the pandemic, precisely at the time drug reform initiative campaigns were typically in the midst of signature-gathering drives proved particularly lethal to marijuana legalization efforts in the Heartland as initiative campaigns in Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma all suc
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