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MAP OF MARIJUANA LEGALITY BY STATE

10/11/2020

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Are you wondering what the marijuana laws are in your state?
​disa.com/map-of-marijuana-legality-by-state
Marijuana laws are changing at a rapid pace across all 50 states, making things a bit confusing at times. In order to keep up with the ever-changing laws, DISA has provided this interactive map for information on legalization, medical use, recreational use, and anything in between.

This marijuana legalization map clearly defines the laws in each state and remains up-to-date with the latest changes on a monthly basis. It’s important to understand and respect the rules that vary across the U.S. regarding marijuana use, and whether you’re a visiting tourist, or a resident the following information will help you steer clear of any misunderstandings or trouble. Scroll over each state to learn more about their individual legalization laws.
Last Updated: October 2020
Note: State status reflects current laws at time of update, not pending legislation or future dates upon which marijuana becomes available medicinally or recreationally.
* Enactment is pending until future date.
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  • Legalized
  • Medical and Decriminalized
  • Medical
  • Decriminalized
  • Fully illegal
State
Legal Status
Medicinal
Decriminalized
State Laws
Alabama
Fully Illegal
No
No
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Alaska
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
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Arizona
Mixed
Yes
No
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Arkansas
Mixed
Yes
No
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California
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
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Colorado
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
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Connecticut
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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Delaware
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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District of Columbia
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
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Florida
Mixed
Yes
No
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Georgia
Mixed
CBD Oil Only
No
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Hawaii
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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Idaho
Fully Illegal
No
No
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Illinois
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
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Indiana
Mixed
CBD Oil Only
No
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Iowa
Mixed
CBD Oil Only
No
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Kansas
Fully Illegal
No
No
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Kentucky
Mixed
CBD Oil Only
No
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Louisiana
Mixed
Yes
No
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Maine
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
View State Laws

Maryland
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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Massachusetts
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
View State Laws

Michigan
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
View State Laws

Minnesota
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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Mississippi
Fully Illegal
No
Yes
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Missouri
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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Montana
Mixed
Yes
No
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Nebraska
Fully Illegal
No
Yes
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Nevada
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
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New Hampshire
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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New Jersey
Mixed
Yes
No
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New Mexico
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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New York
Mixed
Yes
Yes
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North Carolina
Fully Illegal
No
Yes
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North Dakota
Mixed
Yes
Yes
View State Laws

Ohio
Mixed
Yes
Yes
View State Laws

Oklahoma
Mixed
Yes
No
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Oregon
Fully Legal
Yes
Yes
View State Laws

Pennsylvania
Mixed
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European cannabis market, rich with potential, worth 240 million euros in 2019, new report shows

10/11/2020

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European cannabis market, rich with potential, worth 240 million euros in 2019, new report showsPublished May 6, 2020 | By Matt Lamers
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Europe’s legal medical cannabis market might one day eclipse North America’s, but in 2019 the market was worth roughly 240 million euros ($260 million) – meaning the continent is still far from reaching its potential.
That is one of the critical takeaways from Marijuana Business Daily’s updated – and free – report, “Medical Cannabis in Europe: The Markets & Opportunities.”
“This report provides industry leaders and investors interested in the European markets with a realistic estimate of current market sizes and a detailed analysis of the countries where the most opportunities exist,” wrote the author of the report, MJBizDaily International Analyst Alfredo Pascual.
Pascual believes executives will benefit from an honest picture of the market as it exists today, instead of relying mostly on wildly speculative projections of what could occur years into the future.
“Most cannabis companies don’t have years of cash available to spend without generating much revenue until those future multibillion markets materialize,” he said in an interview.
“While the long-term expectation of Europe being a massive medical – and, eventually, recreational – cannabis industry continues to show promise, this report highlights the reality of the market today, including the actual sales and the regulatory frameworks that exist in the main European markets,” Pascual wrote in the report.
“Medical Cannabis in Europe” lends credence to executives who are growing their businesses as the European market evolves.
That is another critical takeaway from the report, Pascual said.
“Businesses can only operate within the boundaries of a jurisdiction’s laws and regulations,” he said. “In many cases in Europe, those laws and regulations are in an infantile stage.
“The risk some businesses face is they’re building facilities before laws and regulations are clear and before functional markets develop.”
Marijuana Business Daily estimates total sales of medical cannabis in Europe in 2019 ranged from 230 million to 250 million euros, with the report noting that accurate estimates are complex because of a lack of official data in several of the main markets and no harmonized definitions of medical cannabis across the continent.
Roughly half the retail value was accounted for in the markup that pharmacies add before dispensing the products in countries such as Germany and Italy.
More takeaways from “Medical Cannabis in Europe”:
  • 2019 was a good year for the largest markets – Germany and Italy – with double-digit growth over 2018. But all other medical cannabis programs on the continent either didn’t grow much (the Netherlands) or grew meaningfully albeit from a tiny starting point (Czech Republic).
  • Corporate expectations that sales will grow exponentially after medical cannabis is legalized is wishful thinking. Irregular growth is common. An example is Denmark.
  • Isolated cannabinoids are an important product category in Europe, representing about 30% of reimbursed sales in Germany and the vast majority of sales in Austria. Possibly the largest acquisition of a European cannabis company to date was when Canada’s Canopy Growth purchased C3 in 2019, becoming a regional leader in the category of isolated THC.
  • Many countries and entrepreneurs want to export to Germany, but products sold in Germany still come from only a few producers that are able to comply with stringent quality requirements. Not many companies were added to that list in 2019 compared to 2018. And some companies, such as Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis, struggled to comply with the rules last year.
  • Supply issues aren’t such a big issue anymore. For example, as of the release of the report, at least 30 different flower varieties were in stock in Germany. Variety for other product types, such as full-spectrum extracts, has room for improvement. The report acknowledges specific supply issues throughout 2019 in different European countries.
  • Though adult-use cannabis is not the focus, the report notes that 2019 was largely uneventful when it comes to recreational legalization in Europe. Luxembourg did not take a meaningful legislative step after the announcement of the intention to legalize at the end of 2018. Switzerland has a pilot project in the works, but it remains far from materializing. The Netherlands advanced its recreational pilot project, but it is limited to only a few, small municipalities.
 

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Arizona Cannabis Legalization Guide (Prop 207)

10/4/2020

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<https://harrisbricken.com/cannalawblog/arizona-cannabis-legalization-guide-
prop-207/
> Arizona Cannabis Legalization Guide (Prop 207)

 <https://harrisbricken.com/cannalawcategory/medical-marijuana/> MEDICAL
MARIJUANA,
<https://harrisbricken.com/cannalawcategory/recreational-marijuana/>
RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA,
<https://harrisbricken.com/cannalawcategory/states/> STATES  OCTOBER 4TH,
2020

 <https://harrisbricken.com/blog/author/cannalawblog/>

by  <https://harrisbricken.com/blog/author/cannalawblog/> Canna Law Blog

This November 2020 election, cannabis legalization initiatives will appear
on the ballots of five states: Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey and
South Dakota. Every Sunday until November 3, Canna Law Blog will publish a
post centered on one of these state ballot initiatives, and the current laws
surrounding cannabis in that state. Today is the first post, in which we
discuss the ballot initiative in Arizona, Proposition 203, or the Marijuana
Legalization Initiative.

What are current Arizona's laws surrounding cannabis?

In 2010, Arizona legalized medical cannabis through the passage of the
ballot measure Proposition 203, known as the
<https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Medical_Marijuana_Question,_Proposition_203
_(2010)> Arizona Medical Marijuana Initiative. The enacting statute, known
as the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA), allows Arizona residents with
medical conditions to possess certain amounts of cannabis for medical use,
with qualified patients and caregivers allowed to purchase cannabis from
specific clinics. This law charged the Arizona Department of Health Services
(ADHS) with regulating the sale and use of medical cannabis. Additionally,
the AMMA protects patients who use medical cannabis from state arrest and
prosecution as well as discrimination from employers.

The AMMA was controversial, barely scraping into law with 50.1% of the vote.
Many political action groups and politicians lobbied against and opposed the
ballot measure, including then-Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer (R).

Since the passage of the law, the ADHS and the Arizona State Congress have
limited the scope of the AMMA. In March of 2011, the ADHS laid out licensing
regulations for patients as well as rules about which medical conditions
qualified a patient for medical cannabis use, listing only 14 qualifying
medical conditions in total. According to the Washington Post, only around
20,000 Arizona residents qualified for medical cannabis use under these
regulations. Additionally, the ADHS regulations prohibited qualified
patients from smoking cannabis in public spaces.

In 2012, the Arizona State Congress signed a bill into law which prohibited
the use or possession of medical cannabis on any college campus in Arizona.
In 2018, however, the Arizona Supreme Court,
<https://www.courthousenews.com/campus-pot-ban-in-arizona-ruled-unconstituti
onal/
> struck down this law as unconstitutional on the grounds that the
legislature could not prove that criminalizing medical cannabis on college
campuses would preserve federal funding.

What's the ballot initiative this coming election?

This November 2020, Arizonians will vote on the
<https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Proposition_207,_Marijuana_Legalization_Ini
tiative_(2020
)#cite_note-text-1> Marijuana Legalization Initiative, or
Proposition 207, a ballot initiative which would legalize cannabis for
recreational use and possession. If passed, individuals in Arizona could
legally grow up to six cannabis plants on or in their residences. The bill
would not, however, allow residents to grow or use cannabis in public view.

This initiative would give the ADHS the responsibility of regulating
recreational cannabis. If passed, the ADHS would begin licensing
dispensaries by accepting applications for licensing for-profit recreational
cannabis dispensaries. Applications from existing nonprofit medical cannabis
dispensaries would be reviewed first, with these dispensaries being allowed
to simultaneously hold nonprofit and for-profit licenses. Applications from
areas without existing dispensaries would also be prioritized.

The law seeks to address historical inequities surrounding cannabis laws.
Specifically, the law would create a Social Equity Owner Program to provide
licenses to entities with owners "from communities disproportionately
impacted by the enforcement of previous marijuana laws." Additionally, the
law would allow people to petition for the expungement of certain
cannabis-related convictions from their record.

The Marijuana Legalization Initiative would institute a 16% tax on the sale
of cannabis on top of existing Arizona sales taxes. If passed, the law would
also give local governments authority, such as the ability to ban cannabis
facilities and control over elements of zoning and licensing.

Prospects for passage of Marijuana Legalization Initiative (2020)
Proposition 207

The prospects for passage of Proposition 207 are uncertain. In 2016, Arizona
failed to pass a
<https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Marijuana_Legalization,_Proposition_205_(20
16)> bill that would have legalized cannabis, with 51% of voters opposed.
Polls suggest that the majority of Arizonians support the 2020 Marijuana
Legalization Initiative. According to a June
<https://ohpredictive.com/press-releases/az-opposition-to-marijuana/> poll,
62% of voters expressed that they would support the measure. However, the
most recent
<https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_az_091720/>
poll in September found the margin to be a lot closer, with 51% polled in
favor and 41% against, and the margin shrinking even further when
considering the likelihood of voter turnout (but with support still in the
majority). Therefore, it seems likely this bill will pass but it may come
down to which Arizonians turn out to vote.
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Medical Cannabis in Europe: The Markets & Opportunities

10/4/2020

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MJ Biz Daily-Pascal-"
<https://mjbizdaily.com/medical-cannabis-in-europe-the-markets-and-opportuni
ties-2nd-edition/
> Medical Cannabis in Europe: The Markets & Opportunities."



Europe's legal medical cannabis market might one day eclipse North
America's, but in 2019 the market was worth roughly 240 million euros ($260
million) - meaning the continent is still far from reaching its potential.

That is one of the critical takeaways from Marijuana Business Daily's
updated - and free - report, "
<https://mjbizdaily.com/medical-cannabis-in-europe-the-markets-and-opportuni
ties-2nd-edition/
> Medical Cannabis in Europe: The Markets & Opportunities."

"This report provides industry leaders and investors interested in the
European markets with a realistic estimate of current market sizes and a
detailed analysis of the countries where the most opportunities exist,"
wrote the author of the report, MJBizDaily International Analyst Alfredo
Pascual.

Pascual believes executives will benefit from an honest picture of the
market as it exists today, instead of relying mostly on wildly speculative
projections of what could occur years into the future.

"Most cannabis companies don't have years of cash available to spend without
generating much revenue until those future multibillion markets
materialize," he said in an interview.

"While the long-term expectation of Europe being a massive medical - and,
eventually, recreational - cannabis industry continues to show promise, this
report highlights the reality of the market today, including the actual
sales and the regulatory frameworks that exist in the main European
markets," Pascual wrote in the report.

"Medical Cannabis in Europe" lends credence to executives who are growing
their businesses as the European market evolves.

That is another critical takeaway from the report, Pascual said.

"Businesses can only operate within the boundaries of a jurisdiction's laws
and regulations," he said. "In many cases in Europe, those laws and
regulations are in an infantile stage.

"The risk some businesses face is they're building facilities before laws
and regulations are clear and before functional markets develop."

Marijuana Business Daily estimates total sales of medical cannabis in Europe
in 2019 ranged from 230 million to 250 million euros, with the report noting
that accurate estimates are complex because of a lack of official data in
several of the main markets and no harmonized definitions of medical
cannabis across the continent.

Roughly half the retail value was accounted for in the markup that
pharmacies add before dispensing the products in countries such as Germany
and Italy.

More takeaways from "Medical Cannabis in Europe":

*       2019 was a good year for the largest markets - Germany and Italy -
with double-digit growth over 2018. But all other medical cannabis programs
on the continent either didn't grow much (the Netherlands) or grew
meaningfully albeit from a tiny starting point (Czech Republic).
*       Corporate expectations that sales will grow exponentially after
medical cannabis is legalized is wishful thinking. Irregular growth is
common. An example is
<https://mjbizdaily.com/danish-medical-cannabis-scheme-ends-2019-on-low-note
/> Denmark.
*       Isolated cannabinoids are an important product category in Europe,
representing about 30% of reimbursed sales in Germany and the vast majority
of sales in Austria. Possibly the largest acquisition of a European cannabis
company to date was when Canada's Canopy Growth
<https://mjbizdaily.com/canopy-acquire-german-cannabis-company-c3-250-millio
n/
> purchased C3 in 2019, becoming a regional leader in the category of
isolated THC.
*       Many countries and entrepreneurs want to export to Germany, but
products sold in Germany still come from only a few producers that are able
to comply with stringent quality requirements. Not many companies were added
to that list in 2019 compared to 2018. And some companies, such as
Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis,
<https://mjbizdaily.com/aurora-cannabis-to-resume-medical-marijuana-sales-in
-germany/
> struggled to comply with the rules last year.
*       Supply issues aren't such a big issue anymore. For example, as of
the release of the report, at least 30 different flower varieties were in
stock in Germany. Variety for other product types, such as full-spectrum
extracts, has room for improvement. The report acknowledges specific supply
issues throughout 2019 in different European countries.
*       Though adult-use cannabis is not the focus, the report notes that
2019 was largely uneventful when it comes to recreational legalization in
Europe. Luxembourg did not take a meaningful legislative step after the
announcement of the intention to legalize at the end of 2018. Switzerland
has a pilot project in the works, but it remains far from materializing. The
Netherlands advanced its recreational pilot project, but it is limited to
only a few, small municipalities.
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