FROM TABOO TO A BOOM: LEGAL CANNABIS LOBBYISTS GO TO WASHINGTON
Dec 07, 2021
3 minutes
BY J.J. MCCOY //NEW FRONTIER DATA SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR
CANNABIS HAS NEVER BEEN MORE POPULAR IN THE US—AS confirmed by polls from Gallup and the Pew Research Center—yet, America’s patchwork approach to long-held prohibition of marijuana has helped make legal cannabis one of the most complicated and convoluted industries in the nation.
In 2021, a total of 19 states had decided to legalize high-THC cannabis for adult use, and 38 for its medical use. With a combined 141 million Americans living across those adult-use states, 43 percent of American adults had access to legal cannabis. Conversely,
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