Newly Released:
Africa Regional Hemp and Cannabis Report:
2019 Industry Outlook

• Summary of total regional cannabis demand
• Segmentation of the regional cannabis consumer base
• Assessment of key regulated markets’ strengths and challenges

Case Study: Medical Cannabis as a Prescriptive for What Ails Zimbabwe

By Beau R. Whitney, Vice President, and Senior Economist, New Frontier Data
 

The impact which medical cannabis can have on state health-care spending is well documented. Previously, New Frontier Data has published data about how states offering legal access to medical cannabis have lower health-care allocations. In medical cannabis states where pain is a permitted qualifying condition, pain patients represent an outsized share of program participants. Furthermore, government spending on pain-related medications was 11% lower in medical cannabis states than in non-legal markets...

Discretionary Consumption Becomes Law in the Land of Lincoln

By Larry Mishkin, Hoban Law Group, Litigation Practice Group Counsel

Last month, the Illinois legislature sent an adult-use cannabis bill to new governor Jay Pritzker for signature. Given all indications that he will sign it, legal discretionary use in Illinois will begin on January 1, 2020. Significantly, passage will mark the Prairie State as the first to enact a complete adult-use program through legislative action rather than a citizens’ vote or referendum...

NEW CHARTS ADDED TO THE CHARTS LIBRARY!

Over the past couple of years, marijuana has been a significant moneymaker for investors. Although not every pot stock has moved higher, buying a handful of the most popular growers and ancillary players would likely have yielded a return that ran circles around the broader market...

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