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After Maine citizens voted to legalize recreational cannabis in November 2016, Maine dispensaries were allowed to sell recreational cannabis products starting October 9, 2020. That year, Maine recorded over $111 million in medical marijuana sales. Currently adult use marijuana sales are taxed at 10 percent. [21] [better source needed]
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
Mississippi and South Dakota approve ballot measures to legalize medical cannabis. [77] 2021: South Dakota initiative to legalize recreational use is ruled state-unconstitutional by a circuit court judge. [78] 2021: New York legalizes recreational cannabis through state legislature. [79]
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.
The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on Thursday, opening up what is expected to be one of the country's most lucrative markets for cannabis ...
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 ...
Country/Territory Recreational Medical Notes Afghanistan Illegal Illegal Main article: Cannabis in Afghanistan Production banned by King Zahir Shah in 1973. Albania Illegal Legal Main article: Cannabis in Albania Prohibited but plants highly available throughout the country and law often unenforced. On 21 July 2023 the Albanian Parliament voted 69–23 to legalize medical cannabis. Algeria ...