Cannabis stocks rally as recreational marijuana's on the ballot in four states

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Voters in four states on Tuesday greenlighted measures to legalize and tax recreational marijuana for adults.

Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota have joined the 11 states that have already legalized recreational pot.

Those other states are Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

Meanwhile, Washington, D.C., permits adults age 21 and over to possess up to 2 ounces of marijuana and allows for the transfer of up to an ounce to another adult — but you can still be arrested for selling it.

Voters also approved measures for medicinal marijuana in Mississippi and South Dakota.

“New Jersey legalized it, but so did deep-red South Dakota and Montana,” said Steve Hawkins, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project. “It shows that regardless of political ideology or party differences, American support cannabis legalization.”

It also helps that levying legal pot could help states strengthen their coffers amid the current economic downturn. It comes down to their approach to the tax, policy experts said.

Fine-tuning taxes

How much of a boost states will get from pot sales will depend on how they structure the tax and each state’s approach toward licensing and regulation.

Often jurisdictions will tack an excise tax on sales of weed, along with a state general sales tax.

“If you set the rates too high, everyone goes to the black market,” said Ed Zollars, CPA and partner at Thomas Zollars & Lynch in Phoenix and an instructor at Kaplan Financial Education.

Similarly, a tax that’s based on the price of marijuana products — versus a tax that’s based on consumption or weight — might result in volatile revenues, especially as pot becomes more widely available and prices decline, said Ulrik Boesen, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation.

“This is why we always say with excise taxes, if you tax by quantity, you’re likely to have more stable revenue,” he said. “Even if price developments are unpredictable, we can predict how many people are buying in terms of weight.”

See below for a list of the recreational pot initiatives that voters pushed forward yesterday.

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36 Comments

  1. Easton M on August 3, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    Planet13



  2. Rodger Woods on August 3, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    Let it grow 😊



  3. Frederick Vanhelsun on August 3, 2021 at 9:32 pm

    The ones who have live years with out this cannabis crap are being forced to use just by the smell of the plants growing next door I’m all for cannabis business but need to be in a location controlled



  4. Philip Vuong on August 3, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    ??? ACB is down 10% today. What are you guys smoking?



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    Proverbs 4:20
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  6. Stefan Koch on August 3, 2021 at 9:37 pm

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  7. Chris Molloy on August 3, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    Hi 😎



  8. CRAIG B on August 3, 2021 at 9:41 pm

    Why hasn’t the federal government passed medical marijuana federally? Is that why some think a civil war is coming?



  9. Austin Lavey on August 3, 2021 at 9:42 pm

    I am the stock grower I’m so happy



  10. David Ellis on August 3, 2021 at 9:45 pm

    Kate is Awesome ! ❤



  11. God’s Spiritual Poet on August 3, 2021 at 9:45 pm

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  12. Gregory Reese on August 3, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    There’s a lot of money and jobs that should come from this. It’s about time.



  13. Biden Supporter on August 3, 2021 at 9:47 pm

    This is wrong on so many levels in every one of these states you have to be a millionaire in order to open up a store and sell. They’ve legalize drugs to sell to your children but only a picked handful of people will be able to profit off of it. 🤔🤔🤔



  14. Ilyas Cetin on August 3, 2021 at 9:47 pm

    Legalized it in Germany 🤑🤑🤑🤑



  15. James Stewart on August 3, 2021 at 9:51 pm

    What about cocaine, heroin, and crack, come on man, it’s all good, right?



  16. JJ S on August 3, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    If bud is doing so well they should raise that minimum wage up



  17. michaelngfinance on August 3, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    This is good quality financial journalism. Thank you, Kate Rooney!



  18. audiofunkdialect on August 3, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    American ingenuity.



  19. Paul Aguon on August 3, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    SNDL 0.14 to 0.54 volume was insane on Friday to the 🚀🌕



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  21. Bill Brown on August 3, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    You gotta be high to watch this NY Media. There’s too many imaginary genders, if you’re not high.



  22. John K on August 3, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    Jesus Christ saves from sin.
    Romans 3: 23
    For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
    Hebrews 9: 27
    And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
    Isaiah 64: 6
    But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
    Revelation 21: 8
    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
    Romans 5: 8
    But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
    John 3: 16
    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
    John 14: 6
    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
    Romans 10: 9-10.
    That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
    For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
    Jesus said John 5: 24
    Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
    1John 5: 10-13
    He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
    And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
    He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
    These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
    Ephesians 2: 8-9
    For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
    Not of works, lest any man should boast.
    Romans 8: 1
    There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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  23. NWFSportsman on August 3, 2021 at 10:03 pm

    I’m ripped rite now high as a giraffe’s ass matter fact



  24. Jared Stevens on August 3, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    The federal government needs to enforce the marijuana ban



  25. Austin Lavey on August 3, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    Good



  26. Rambis on August 3, 2021 at 10:13 pm

    Great video. 2700%!?! Can anyone on the planet tell me why symbol FWDG- Future world (cannabis penny stock) is up 2700% (!!!!) in the last couple weeks?????? I can’t make heads or tails out of its climb and i am FreAkiNg out!!!!



  27. Humongous420 on August 3, 2021 at 10:13 pm

    Go green & GO BIG



  28. Scott Cunningham on August 3, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    M A S A
    MAKE AMERICA STUPID AGAIN.
    ITS A DEMOCRATIC THING.



  29. Chris Corbin on August 3, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    Our media has been weponize.they have a agenda .you people better wake up soon.if not for yourself do it for your kids.biden is a crook.he has sold us out.last warning



  30. thedenerad on August 3, 2021 at 10:20 pm

    Here I sit in TENNESSEE still having to be a criminal just to get a joint



  31. Danthe360man on August 3, 2021 at 10:21 pm

    Lmao too bad they don’t tell ya none of them even turn a profit



  32. Roger Dodger on August 3, 2021 at 10:23 pm

    Investing in drugs for America. We know you want to destroy America.
    Maybe we need to DESTROY YOU!



  33. Alex K. on August 3, 2021 at 10:25 pm

    Hexo is the best Cannabis stock



  34. Alpha Status Stocks on August 3, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    Best pot stock right now https://youtu.be/9onhQzzU9og



  35. Shadow Life on August 3, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    Cannabis stocks? It’s a plant that anyone could grow in their back yard.



  36. Annabel Lee on August 3, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    recreational across the board is this country’s last ditch hope to save its failing ass democratic states. notice how all those states… are lead by dems. cause they have ran it so into the ground that this is their only hope. so sad really