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Now that the “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” has officially qualified for the ballot in California, everyone’s attention turns to the vote this November and beyond. If recreational legalization is passed by voters it will unleash an economic revolution in the state.

By itself, California is the world’s 6h largest economy. With almost 40 million people and a medical marijuana industry that is 20 years old, CA is primed for government restrictions to be taken off of recreational growing and sales.

Most people in the United States only know a few things about Iran.

     1)      They want nukes.

     2)      Some stuff went down with them in the late 1970s.

     3)      They are crazy religious people who don’t want anyone to have any fun.

Recently Microsoft became the first major corporation to enter the emerging legal cannabis industry. And while there won’t be big marijuana plants growing at Microsoft’s Washington headquarters, the move is a huge one nonetheless.

Last month NFL player Eugene Monroe made headlines when he donated $80,000 to a group in Colorado that is studying the effects of cannabis on those who sustain multiple concussions. Monroe has also been very vocal about his disagreement with the powers that be at the NFL over the league’s policy on marijuana.

Last week former NFL quarterback and Super Bowl Champion Jim McMahon spoke at the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo in New York City, and he had a lot to say about cannabis.

I hope you’re sitting down as you read this, because this is MAJOR and SHOCKING news!

Marijuana legalization creates jobs.

Yes, you read that right. Legalizing marijuana creates jobs. It turns out that people like to buy marijuana, and they like to buy it from stores. Those stores need people to sell the marijuana to those who want to buy it. So businesses open up and hire people and sell marijuana. It’s crazy, AM I RIGHT?

In the month of April some $117 million worth of legal cannabis was sold in Colorado, setting a record for the relatively short history of legal marijuana sales in the state. It’s sure to be a record broken time and time again.

Recreational marijuana sales accounted for over $76 million of the record total, which is not surprising considering how much larger and less restricted – in terms of customer base – that market is. Overall, recreational sales saw an 80% increase over sales from last Aril.

A new study out of New Zealand shows that there are very little long-term health risks from smoking marijuana. The findings, published recently in JAMA Psychiatry, show that across a wide range of possible health problems, marijuana smoking may only lead to one: gum disease.

Last week the group MILegalize turned in some 354,000 signatures to the Michigan Secretary of State’s office in an effort to get recreational marijuana legalization on the statewide ballot this fall. To be successful the group needs 252,523 of those signatures to be deemed valid.

After the Ohio legislature recently debated and passed a medical marijuana bill on its own, the group Ohioans for Medical Marijuana has decided to suspend their signature-gathering efforts; those efforts were directed at getting a measure on the statewide ballot this fall.