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A report by New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform and New Jersey Policy Perspective, issued in 2016, concluded that if New Jersey legalized marijuana, it could generate about $300 million annually in sales tax revenue for the state. (The report assumed a sales tax of 25% and annual in-state marijuana sales of $1.2 billion.) [9]
July 23, 2013: medical marijuana legalized when Governor Maggie Hassan signed HB 573. [122] [123] July 11, 2015: Governor Hassan expanded medical marijuana law. [124] July 18, 2017: Governor Chris Sununu signed bill decriminalizing up to 0.75 oz (21 g). [125] New Jersey: Legal to possess up to 6 oz (170 g). [126] Licensed delivery services ...
2014: New York City decriminalized cannabis through a new policy announced by city officials. [116] 2015: Wichita, Kansas decriminalized cannabis through voter referendum. [117] 2015: Miami-Dade commissioners voted to decriminalize cannabis. [118] 2015: Toledo, Ohio residents voted to decriminalize possession of cannabis less than 200 grams. [119]
New York legislators and then Gov. Andrew Cuomo legalized recreational cannabis use in 2021 for people older than 21. The drug had been decriminalized and approved for medical use.
A New York medical cannabis prescription. In July 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation permitting the use of cannabis for medical purposes, following a "lengthy, emotional debate" in the issue in the Senate and 49–10 Senate vote. Cuomo's signing began an 18-month window for the state Department of Health to enact a medical ...
An adult cannabis dispensary that's among Rockland County’s first to receive a state license has launched delivery service and plans a spring Nyack village store opening.
Further regulation of cannabis followed in Massachusetts (1911), New York (1914), and Maine (1914). In New York, reform legislation began under the Towns-Boylan Act, which targeted all "habit-forming drugs", restricted their sale, prohibited refills in order to prevent habituation, prohibited sale to people with a habit, and prohibited doctors ...
Treehouse Cannabis, Rockland's first officially licensed adult-use recreational cannabis dispensary, opened its storefront in Nyack Aug. 15. "Needless to say, this has been an interesting journey ...