The Important Issues To Watch As Cannabis Becomes Legal
The choices the federal government must and will make will have far-reaching consequences.
As marijuana legalization proceeds, new issues will arise and the pressure to deal with existing issues will increase. How local, state, and federal governments as well as international bodies deal with these challenges and questions will determine the future success of marijuana legalization policy.
By the beginning of 2016 in the United States, four states legalized marijuana and for the first time, two states that share a border legalized— Washington and Oregon. Studying how that border influences the market and consumer behavior will be an interesting challenge. Of course it is against federal law to transport marijuana bought in one state to the other (in fact, it is still against federal law to possess that marijuana in the first place). But the reality on the ground is that the state border will be porous and product will...
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