Texas State Capitol Educational Exhibit: Economics of a Regulated Cannabis Market
The Texas Legislature has been in session for six weeks and dozens of marijuana-related bills have been introduced, including proposals to create a regulated cannabis market. We are at the Capitol sharing imperative information through our educational exhibit. This display cover important topics like job creation, new revenue streams, criminal justice savings and more. We were honored to collaborate with our coalition, Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, on the creation and production of this exhibit. Check out our upcoming seminar on this topic.
Review the graphics and their sources below. Take a video tour of the exhibit.
“The Economic Benefits of Regulating and Taxing Cannabis in Texas: An analysis of potential new revenue, job growth, and savings.” Vicente Sederberg, LLP. October 2020
2020 Leafly Jobs Report
“Potential Cannabis Market Job Growth” New Frontier Data, October 2019
“A Tale of Two Countries: Racially Targeted Arrests in the Era of Marijuana Reform” ACLU, 2020
“Dallas Cops Are Still Citing-and-Releasing Mostly Black and Brown People for Pot” Dallas Observer, April 2018
Austin City Council’s Judicial Committee Meeting as reported by APD Assistant Chief Gay, September 13, 2019
“Racial and gender inequities in the implementation of a cannabis criminal justice diversion program in a large and diverse metropolitan county of the USA” November, 2020
” Not in my backyard? Not so fast. The effect of marijuana legalization on neighborhood crime“, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019
“Marijuana legalization and crime clearance rates: Testing proponent assertions in Colorado and Washington State“, Police Quarterly, 2018
Marijuana Institutes on Drug Abuse, December 17, 2018 Press Release
CNN/ORC International survey, January 6, 2014
“Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base,” p. 6, Institute of Medicine, 1999
“Systemic review of cannabis use and risk of occupational injury“, Substance Use and Misuse , 2020
“Marijuana Use and Highway Safety” Congressional Research Services Report, May 14, 2019.
“Cannabis use as a risk factor for causing motor vehicle crashes: a prospective study “September, 2019.
“Fatal crashes in the 5 years after recreational marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington” Accident Analysis & Prevention Volume 132, November 2019, 105284
“Field Sobriety Test Review” Texas District & County Attorneys Association