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"Maryland Gov. Wes Moore issued a mass pardon of more than 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday morning [June 17, 2024], one of the nation’s most sweeping acts of clemency involving a drug now in widespread recreational use.

The pardons forgive low-level marijuana possession charges for an estimated 100,000 people in what the Democratic governor said is a step to heal decades of social and economic injustice that disproportionately harms Black and Brown people. Moore noted criminal records have been used to deny housing, employment and education, holding people and their families back long after their sentences have been served.

[Note: If you're wondering how 175,000 convictions were pardoned but only 100,000 people are benefiting, it's because there are often multiple convictions per person.]

A Sweeping Act

“We aren’t nibbling around the edges. We are taking actions that are intentional, that are sweeping and unapologetic,” Moore said at an Annapolis event interrupted three times by standing ovations. “Policymaking is powerful. And if you look at the past, you see how policies have been intentionally deployed to hold back entire communities.”

Moore called the scope of his pardons “the most far-reaching and aggressive” executive action among officials nationwide who have sought to unwind criminal justice inequities with the growing legalization of marijuana. Nine other states and multiple cities have pardoned hundreds of thousands of old marijuana convictions in recent years, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Legalized marijuana markets reap billions in revenue for state governments each year, and polls show public sentiment on the drug has also turned — with more people both embracing cannabis use and repudiating racial disparities exacerbated by the War on Drugs.

The pardons, timed to coincide with Wednesday’s Juneteenth holiday, a day that has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the United States, come from a rising star in the Democratic Party and the lone Black governor of a U.S. state whose ascent is built on the promise to “leave no one behind.”

The Pardons and Demographics

Derek Liggins, 57, will be among those pardoned Monday, more than 16 years after his last day in prison for possessing and dealing marijuana in the late 1990s. Despite working hard to build a new life after serving time, Liggins said he still loses out on job opportunities and potential income.

“You can’t hold people accountable for possession of marijuana when you’ve got a dispensary on almost every corner,” he said.

Nationwide, according to the ACLU, Black people were more than three times more likely than White people to be arrested for marijuana possession. President Biden in 2022 issued a mass pardon of federal marijuana convictions — a reprieve for roughly 6,500 people — and urged governors to follow suit in states, where the vast majority of marijuana prosecutions take place.

Maryland’s pardon action rivals only Massachusetts, where the governor and an executive council together issued a blanket pardon in March expected to affect hundreds of thousands of people.

But Moore’s pardons appear to stand alone in the impact to communities of color in a state known for having one of the nation’s worst records for disproportionately incarcerating Black people for any crimes. More than 70 percent of the state’s male incarcerated population is Black, according to state data, more than double their proportion in society.

In announcing the pardons, he directly addressed how policies in Maryland and nationwide have systematically held back people of color — through incarceration and restricted access to jobs and housing...

Maryland, the most diverse state on the East Coast, has a dramatically higher concentration of Black people compared with other states that have issued broad pardons for marijuana: 33 percent of Maryland’s population is Black, while the next highest is Illinois, with 15 percent...

Reducing the state’s mass incarceration disparity has been a chief goal of Moore, Brown and Maryland Public Defender Natasha Dartigue, who are all the first Black people to hold their offices in the state. Brown and Dartigue have launched a prosecutor-defender partnership to study the “the entire continuum of the criminal system,” from stops with law enforcement to reentry, trying to detect all junctures where discretion or bias could influence how justice is applied, and ultimately reform it.

How It Will Work

Maryland officials said the pardons, which would also apply to people who are dead, will not result in releasing anyone from incarceration because none are imprisoned. Misdemeanor cannabis charges yield short sentences and prosecutions for misdemeanor criminal possession have stopped, as possessing small amounts of the drug is legal statewide.

Moore’s pardon action will automatically forgive every misdemeanor marijuana possession charge the Maryland judiciary could locate in the state’s electronic court records system, along with every misdemeanor paraphernalia charge tied to use or possession of marijuana. Maryland is the only state to pardon such paraphernalia charges, state officials said...

People who benefit from the mass pardon will see the charges marked in state court records within two weeks, and they will be eliminated from criminal background check databases within 10 months."

-via The Washington Post, June 17, 2024. Headings added by me.

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Ohioans to Decide Fate of Recreational Marijuana in November as Initiative Qualifies for Ballot

Ohio Marijuana Legalization Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot

Ohioans will have the opportunity to vote on a marijuana legalization initiative in November after the Ohio Ballot Board approved the measure on Tuesday. The initiative, which was proposed by the Ohio Rights Group, would legalize the possession, cultivation, and use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes.

The Ohio Rights Group, a grassroots organization that advocates for marijuana reform, submitted more than 1.4 million signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State's office in July. The office then verified that the signatures were valid and the initiative was approved by the Ohio Ballot Board.

The initiative would allow adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of marijuana and cultivate up to six plants for personal use. It would also create a system of regulated marijuana dispensaries and allow for the sale of marijuana products. Additionally, the initiative would establish a system of taxation and regulation for the sale of marijuana.

If passed, the initiative would make Ohio the first state in the Midwest to legalize recreational marijuana. It would also make Ohio the 11th state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana, joining Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

The initiative is expected to be a contentious issue in the November election, as opponents of the measure have argued that it would lead to an increase in drug use and crime. Supporters of the initiative, however, have argued that it would create jobs and generate revenue for the state.

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Illinois Dispensary Workers Strike When It Hurts the Most Benjamin M. Adams

Dispensary workers in Illinois are fed up with what they say are low wages and unfair practices committed by a major dispensary chain. Members of Teamsters Local 777 members at three RISE Dispensaries in Chicagoland, a subsidiary of Green Thumb Industries, walked off the job on April 19 at 4:20 p.m. CT to launch an open-ended unfair labor practice (ULP) strike. It’s the largest strike of its…

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Do you take the weed edibles at work?

Absolutely not, as I've said. I have a hard rule against any kind of intoxicant at work, and those are intoxicants for me. For some people, weed is a pain reliever, anxiety reducer, or appetite stimulant, so I don't condemn its use during work hours if medically necessary, but they aren't any of those things for me. For one thing, they'd fuck me up proper; I can't work when I'm high and even the 2mg is enough to get me high. For another, I'm not going to risk a job I really like with high pay and good benefits for an edible.

They're there for emergencies of whatever kind -- the same way I keep spare underwear and a toothbrush in my work cubicle, because I've had some near-misses with having to stay overnight during blizzards.

Now, that said, weed is legal in Illinois and those are legally purchased from a dispensary, so there's nothing wrong with simply having them at work, the way you might keep a six-pack in your desk that you bought at lunch and are planning to take home at the end of the day. I've discussed the qualities of various dispensaries and manufacturers with my boss and colleagues before, like we've talked about local breweries and distilleries.

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WHO: Aly & @rileycarlisle WHEN: Saturday, April 18th - 06:05 PM WHERE: A Marijuana dispensary in Catalina. WHY: Aly and Riley meet for the first time at a Catalina dispensary that is closed due to the power outage.

It was just by chance that the vehicle Aly had rented to drive while in Catalina had four wheel drive, but was actually quite helpful now that the streets were starting to flood. The weather did not detour this Floridian though as she made her way to a dispensary; driving a little too fast. Aly wasn’t good with words like safe or slow. Her nature demanded her wants in the here and now. And now? Aly wanted to smoke weed. Illinois had legalized pot earlier in the year, but god damn California knew what was up. She’d never had anything so good, although that wasn’t what brought her here today. Rather, the need to stop giving a fuck about all the stupid shit she was giving a fuck about.

The divorce.

Marion.

Getting stuck in an elevator.

Evie.

Nick.

Arthur.

Her stupid fucking job that she didn’t even need anymore but had worked too hard for to just give up.

Why did any of it matter?

It didn’t. Not really. The moment the ink was dry on her divorce papers she was gone. Back on an airplane to Chicago. Far the fuck away from Catalina Island, and all the people on it. If she could only manage to make it until then. Weed would help with that, and her mood too. She still felt bone dry of serotonin after that night in LA.

There was a sign on the dispensary door:

CLOSED DUE TO OUTAGE.

Aly tried to open it anyway, but of course the door didn’t budge. “Fuck me.”

She turned around to get back in her car when she encountered another woman. A face she’d never seen before, although that wasn’t at all surprising. Catalina was full of those. “Hey girl. They’re closed. Some bullshit but--” What could they do?

#rileycarlisle #event: power outage #catalina: event #{ .she has the moon on her mind; that’s why stars spill off her lips → CONVOS.

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Top State and Local Tax Policies of 2020

To state that 2018 and 2019 were “big years” in state tax policy would be an incredible modest representation of the truth. With a significant upgrade of government individual and corporate annual expense frameworks in December 2017, trailed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s South Dakota v. Wayfair decision impacting inter-state sales tax collections the following June, states have spent the past two years reacting to major federal policy changes, in addition to enacting many of their state-specific reforms.

While many state responses to the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and the Wayfair decision has already taken effect several additional policy changes, whether reactions to federal law or otherwise, are slated to take effect as we ring in the new year on January 1, 2020. Altogether, 34 states have major tax changes taking effect at the start of the new calendar year.

KEY FINDINGS

Ø Thirty-four states have major tax changes taking effect on 1st January 2020.

Ø Arkansas, Tennessee and Massachusetts will each see reductions in their individual income tax rates.

Ø Five states (Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio) will see notable changes to their individual income tax bases.

Ø Corporate income, capital stock, franchise, or similar taxes on businesses or financial institutions will decrease or be eliminated in six states (Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Mississippi) but will increase in two states (New Jersey and Washington).

Ø Oregon will implement a new Corporate Activity Tax (CAT), which is a modified gross receipts tax (GRT).

Ø Florida is the lone state with a general sales tax rate change (a reduction).

Ø Five states will see changes to their estate taxes. Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, and New York will see increases in their estate tax exemptions (taxpayer-friendly provisions), while Hawaii’s estate tax will become more burdensome.

Ø Two states (Illinois and Louisiana) will implement new excise taxes on cannabis products.

Ø Three states (Maine, Nevada, and New Hampshire) will begin applying excise taxes to vapor products.

Ø Four states (Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin) will begin requiring marketplace facilitators to collect sales taxes.

Ø Three states (Arizona, Georgia, and Washington) will modify the economic nexus threshold in their remote sales tax collection requirements.

Ø Two states (Hawaii and Pennsylvania) will begin using Wayfair-like standards to determine economic nexus for income tax purposes.

Ø Two states (Connecticut and Virginia) will see notable changes to their sales tax base. (Connecticut’s sales tax base will broaden to additional consumer goods and services, while Virginia’s base will become narrower).

Ø Six states (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Tennessee) will see various changes to their corporate income tax base or appointment formulas.

Ø Various road user taxes and fees will change in Kansas and Nevada.

The Individual and Corporate Income Tax Rate Changes Effective January 1, 2020

State

Top Rate (2019)

Number of Brackets(2019)

Top Rate (2020)

Number of Brackets (2020)

Individual Income Tax

Arkansas

6% (middle-income earners); 6.9% (high-income earners)

6 (middle-income earners); 6 (high-income earners)

5.9% (middle-income earners); 6.6% (high-income earners)

6 )Middle-income earners);

4 (high-income earners)

Tennessee

2% (investment income only)

Single rate tax

1% (investment income only)

Single rate tax

Massachusetts

5.05%

Single-rate tax

5.00%

Single-rate tax

Corporate Income Tax

Florida

4.458%

Single-rate tax

4.458%

Single rate tax

Missouri

6.25%

Single rate tax

4.0%

Single rate tax

New Jersey

11.5% (including a 9% base rate and a 2.5% surcharge)

10.5% (including a 9 % base rate and a 1.5% surcharge)

Note: The corporate income and franchise tax rates in Florida were set to revert to the 2018 rate of 5.5%, but the legislation was enacted extending the 2019 rates to 2020 and 2021. Source: State statutes.

Arizona: Arizona adopted an Internal Revenue Code (IRC) conformity bill, House Bill 2757, in May 2019, which also included adjustments to the state’s Wayfair response. While several of this law’s provisions were retroactive and have already taken effect, a change in the safe harbor for small remote sellers will take effect on January 1, 2020. Specifically, the de minimis exemption for remote sellers will drop from $200,000 to $150,000. Remote sellers exceeding this amount in direct sales into Arizona for the current or previous calendar year are required to collect the transaction privilege tax (TPT), Arizona’s unique sales tax. This safe harbor is scheduled to drop even further, to $100,000, in 2021.

Arkansas: Arkansas recently enacted a series of tax reforms that will continue phasing in the new-year. Arkansas is unique among states in that it has three entirely different individual income tax rate schedules depending on total taxable income. As the taxpayer’s income rises, they not only face higher marginal rates but also shift into an entirely different rate schedule. In the new-year, Arkansas individual income tax rates schedule for high earners, which currently has six marginal income brackets, will be consolidated into four brackets, and the top marginal rate will drop from 6.9 to 6.6 percent. In 2021, this top rate will be reduced even further, to 5.9 percent. For those subject to the middle rate schedule, the top rate will decrease from 6.0 to 5.9 percent this January. On the corporate tax front, the net operating loss (NOL) carryforward period will increase from five to eight years in 2020 and to 10 years in 2021.

Arkansas Individual Income Tax Rates (2020)

Total Income Under $22,200

Total Income Between $22,200 and $79,300

Total Income Above $79,300

Income Bracket

Tax Rate

Income Bracket

Tax Rate

Income Bracket

Tax Rate

$0-$4,499

0.0%

$0-$4,499

0.75%

$0-$4,000

2.0%

$4,500-$8,899

2.0%

$4500-$8,899

2.50%

$4,001-$8,000

4.0%

$8,900-$13,399

3.0%

$8,900-$13,399

3.50%

$8,001- $79,300

5.9%

$13,400-$22,199

3.4%

$13,400-$22,199

4.50%

$79,301+

6.6%

$22,200-$37,199

5.00%

$37,200-$79,300

5.90

Note: The exact brackets will change slightly due to Arkansas’ policy inflation-adjusting its brackets annually.

Source: Act 182, Arkansas 2019.

Connecticut: Connecticut’s budget for fiscal years 2020-21, which Gov. Ned Lamont (D) signed into law in June, includes several tax changes that will take effect on January 1st. One such change is that Connecticut will no longer levy a Business Entity Tax (BET). Previously, owners of S corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), and partnerships paid this tax every other year in the amount of $250. Further, effective January 1st, additional select services will be included in Connecticut’s sales tax base, including parking garages, meters, and related parking services: interior design services; dry cleaning and laundry services (excluding coin-operated laundry services).

Florida: In March 2018, legislation was enacted in Florida to trigger corporate income and franchise tax rate reductions for the 2019 tax year if Florida 2019 tax collections exceeded adjusted forecasted collections by at least 7%. In June 2019, legislation was enacted to extend the trigger to also be available in tax years 2020 and 2021. As a result, in September, the Department of Revenue announced that the corporate income and franchise tax rates would indeed be reduced, from 5.5 to 4.458 percent, retroactive to January 1, 2019, and effective for tax years 2020 and 2021. Further reductions for 2020 and 2021 are possible depending on actual collections for those years. Moreover, effective 1st January, the commercial lease tax, a special sales tax remitted by commercial real estate owners but paid by their tenants, will drop from 5.7 to 5.5 percent.

Georgia: House Bill 182, signed into law in April 2019, reduced Georgia’s de Minimis exemption for small remote sellers from $250,000 to $100,000, effective 1st January 2020.

Hawaii: As of the first of the year, Hawaii will require marketplace facilitators to collect and remit its General Excise Tax (the state sales tax) when those marketplace facilitators have $100,000 or more in income sourced to Hawaii or at least 200 transactions in the state. Hawaii also becomes the first state to align its income tax economic standards with its Wayfair safe harbor. Senate Bill 495, enacted in July 2019, requires income tax filing for any individual, estate, or business with 200 or more transactions or more than $100,000 in sales into Hawaii. Also, Act 3, signed into law in April, created a new estate tax bracket, taxing estates valued above $10 million at a rate of 20 percent. This new rate applies to decedents dying in 2020.

Illinois: Illinois has several tax changes taking effect in January, including a marketplace facilitator sales tax collection law, a marijuana excise tax, a parking excise tax, and the phase-out of the franchise tax. As of the first of the year, marketplace facilitators will be required to collect Illinois sales tax when those facilitators have $100,000 or more in sales or at least 200 transactions in the state. Public Act 101-0027, signed into law in June, creates a legal market for recreational marijuana and imposes various excise taxes. These taxes include a 7 percent tax on wholesale sales made to dispensaries, as well as retail excise taxes of 10 percent, 20 percent, or 25 percent depending on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content or product type. A local option tax of up to 3% will not take effect until July 2020. The new excise tax on parking services will be paid by drivers for the privilege of parking in a designated space, garage, or another area. The tax will be imposed at a rate of 6 percent of the purchase price for hourly, daily, or weekly parking spaces and 9 percent of the purchase price of parking on a monthly or annual basis. Finally, Illinois franchise tax, which has historically been imposed on C corporations doing business in Illinois, will be phased out between 2020 and 2023. In 2020, the first $30 in franchise tax liability will be exempted, and by 2024, no tax will be owed.

Indiana: Indiana’s financial institution’s tax rate will fall from 6.25 to 6.0 percent in 2020 under a phase-down that will reduce the rate to 4.9 percent by 2023. The state’s corporate income tax rates are on a similar phasedown schedule, but rates change each July, not in January.

Iowa: As of January 1st, Iowa will fully conform to federal expensing provisions under IRC section 179, while conforming to the federal repeal of the deferral of gain or loss for the like-kind exchange of property. Iowa will also begin conforming to the IRC on a rolling basis.

Kansas: In 2020, several Kansas individual income tax provisions will become more generous. Currently, Kansas offers five itemized deductions that are linked to the itemized deductions available under the federal code. While Kansas’ deduction for charitable contributions is already on par with the federal provision, other itemized deductions, including for qualified medical and dental expenses, real estate taxes, personal property taxes, and qualified residential interest and mortgage insurance premiums, were offered at a set percentage of the federal provisions. In 2020, these deductions will be offered at parity with federal provisions. Also, Kansas child and dependent care credit will be offered at 25% of the federal amount, up from 18.75 percent. Moreover, starting in January, hybrid and electric vehicles will be subject to annual license fees of $50 and $100, respectively.

Kentucky: House Bill 354, which was signed into law in March, specifies that certain businesses need not file a tangible personal property (TPP) tax return for TPP valued at $1,000 or less.

Louisiana: Act 247, signed into law in June, applies a 3 percent excise tax to the retail sale of cannabidiol (CBD) products.

Maine: As of January 1st, Maine’s earned income tax credit (EITC) will increase from 5 to 12 percent of the amount available under federal law, with a few additional modifications. On January 2nd rather than the 1st, Maine’s new vapor tax will take effect, levied at 43% of the whole price.

Maryland: Maryland is currently phasing in a new single sales factor apportionment formula for most corporate income. In 2020, the sales factor will be weighted more heavily than in 2019. The phase-in will be completed by the tax year 2022.

Massachusetts: Massachusetts single-rate individual income tax will decline from 5.05 to 5.0 percent, due to the state meeting revenue targets outlined in a tax trigger law that was passed in 2000. The state did, however, adopt a payroll tax, imposed in addition to the income tax, within the past year.

Michigan: In December, Michigan adopted a package of bills codifying preexisting remote sales tax collection regulations, including a de minimis exemption of $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions, as well as establishing sales tax collection requirements for marketplace facilitators. The marketplace facilitator law takes effect at the beginning of the year.

Minnesota: Legislation enacted in 2017 phased in an increase in the estate tax exemption, which will reach $3 million for 2020 and beyond.

Mississippi: Mississippi’s phase-down of its franchise tax, which began in 2018, will continue through 2028. In 2020, the rate will drop to 2.0 mills, down from 2.25 mills in 2019.

Missouri: Several of Missouri’s recent reforms will take effect on January 1st. Senate Bill 884, enacted in June 2018, reduces the corporate income tax rate from 6.25 to 4.0 percent starting in 2020. This change was partially paid for by requiring most corporations (except for specified industries) to use single sales factor appointment and market-based sourcing of service income, where, previously, they could select the more favorable of single sales factor or evenly weighted three-factor apportionment. Separately, Senate Bill 769, which was signed into law in July 2018, requires the franchise tax levied on financial institutions to be reduced by the same percentage as the corporate income tax. As a result, the franchise tax rate will be 4.48 percent instead of 7.0 percent moving forward.

Montana: Senate Bill 338, signed into law in May 2019, will increase Montana’s lodging sales tax from 3 to 4 percent on January 1st. This 4 percent lodging sales tax will be applied in addition to the existing 4 percent lodging facility use tax, bringing total lodging taxes to 8 percent.

Nevada: Senate Bill 48, signed into law in May 2019, authorizes counties to impose local diesel taxes of up to 5 cents per gallon, which may be levied starting on January 1st. In addition, a new fee for electric vehicle licenses will take effect, with an initial fee of $125 and a renewal fee of $80. Revenue will be dedicated to the State Highway Fund. Finally, Senate Bill 263, enacted in June 2019, imposes a 30 percent excise tax on the wholesale price of vapor products.

New Hampshire: In New Hampshire, vapor products will also be subject to excise taxes come January. “Closed cartridge” devices will be taxed at a rate of 30 cents per milliliter of liquid containing nicotine, and “open system” products will be taxed at 8 percent of the wholesale sales price of the container of liquid containing nicotine. Moreover, IRC conformity legislation enacted in September 2019 conforms to New Hampshire to the TCJA’s net interest limitation and includes 50 percent of global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) in the corporate tax base. House Bill 620, also adopted this past year, modifies the taxation of insurance premiums. Specifically, this legislation establishes a graduated fee schedule for insurance premium taxes (except for surplus lines policies, which will be taxed at a flat rate).

New Jersey: Assembly Bill 4202, enacted in July 2018, established an additional tax rate for taxpayers paying the Corporation Business Tax with taxable New Jersey net income above $1 million. This rate was set at 2.5 percent for 2018 and 2019 but partially sunset to 1.5 percent for 2020 and 2021, bringing the top rate from 11.5 to 10.5 percent, still higher than the 9 percent ordinary top marginal rate.

New Mexico: In April 2019, a large package of corporate tax changes (House Bill 6) was adopted. While different provisions carry different effective dates, as of January 1st, New Mexico will require mandatory worldwide combined reporting for unitary groups unless the group makes a water’s edge combined or consolidated group election under the federal code, in which case they can make such an election for New Mexico taxation purposes but must do so far at least seven years in a row.

New York: New York’s FY 2020 budget, signed into law in April 2019, includes an increase in the estate tax’s basic exclusion amount, raising it from $5.74 million to $5.85 million for 2020.

North Carolina: Senate Bill 557, enacted in November 2019, includes several tax changes. As of January 2020, the standard deduction will increase by 7.5 percent for all filing statuses, and market-based sourcing will be used to apportion income for purposes of calculating corporate income and franchise tax liability.

Ohio: Under its individual income tax system, Ohio applies different rates to business and non-business income. Currently, Ohio’s business income deduction (BID) allows pass-through business owners to deduct up to $250,000 in business income before applying the 3 percent tax rate such income. But under House Bill 166, Ohio’s biennial budget for FY’s 2020-21, attorneys and lobbyists will no longer be eligible for this favored treatment.

Oregon: House Bill 3427, signed into law in May 2019, created a new Corporate Activity Tax (CAT), making Oregon one of only two states (joining Delaware) to impose both corporate income tax and a gross receipts tax (GRT). Oregon’s CAT will apply to all business entities that have Oregon income above $1 million, and it will be imposed at a rate of 0.57 percent of Oregon’s gross receipts above $1 million, plus $250.

Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue issued a bulletin in September 2019 establishing the Commonwealth’s new post- Wayfair remote sales tax threshold as the economic nexus thresholds for corporate tax purposes as well. As a result, starting in 2020, Pennsylvania will require businesses to file a Pennsylvania Corporate Net Income Tax (CNIT) return if they have $500,000 in gross receipts sourced to Pennsylvania, even if the business has no physical presence in the state. Previously, Pennsylvania was one of the few states to limit its corporate tax to businesses that established physical presence.

Tennessee: Tennessee’s Hall Tax which applies to investment income but not to wage income, will continue to phase out, with the rate dropping from 2 to 1 percent for 2020. Starting in 2021, Tennessee will be among the states with no individual income tax. In addition, Senate Bill 2119, signed into law in May 2018, decouples from the net interest limitation under IRC section 163(j), effective in January.

Utah: Just this month, the Utah legislature adopted a comprehensive tax reforms package that the governor has said he will sign. While the law will not be formally enacted until mid-February, the income tax rate changes will be retroactive to January 1st, 2020. The state flat individual and corporate income tax rates will both be reduced from 4.95 to 4.66 percent, and in April, the sales tax base will be broadened to select new goods and services.

Vermont: In June 2019, House Bill 541 was enacted, which phases in an increase to Vermont’s estate tax exemption. For 2020, the exemption will increase to $4.25 million, up from $2.75 million in 2019.

Virginia: House Bill 2540 and Senate Bill 1715, signed into law in March 2019, modify the classification of feminine hygiene products and diapers such that they will be taxed at a reduced state sales tax rate of 1.5 percent instead of the general state sales tax rate of 4.3 percent (the 1 percent local option sales tax rate will also apply, bringing the total tax rate on such products to 2.5 percent). Until now, only unprepared foods have been subject to the preferential state sales tax rate.

Washington: Substitute House Bill 2167, signed into law in May 2019, imposes an additional 1.2 percent business and occupation (B&O) tax on financial institutions that are members of a consolidated group having at least $1 billion in annual net income. In addition, Senate Bill 5581, signed into law in March 2019, modifies the state economic nexus statute to drop the 200 transactions threshold. Moving forward, remote sellers will only be required to collect the state sales tax if they have over $100,000 in sales into Washington, instead of the lesser of $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions.

Wisconsin: 2019 Wisconsin Act 10, enacted in July 2019, will take effect on January 1st. This new law requires a marketplace facilitator to meet the state economic nexus threshold of over $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions into Wisconsin.

Conclusion: This year was a significant one for state tax policy, and the wide range of changes taking effect January 1st 2020, reflects the scope and intensity of that activity. With states continuing to grapple with the taxation of international income, collections obligations for remote sellers and marketplace facilitators, and the potential new tax regimes for marijuana, vapor products, and sports betting (no tax changes for the latter taking effect yet on January 1st , 2020).

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Top Benefits Of Consuming Cannabis Edibles

With all the current cannabis gummy bears and cookies currently available, it could arrive like they're a relatively new-technology. Contrary to popular belief, edibles have been identified since way back then. While they will have stayed hanging around so long for multiple reasons, what precisely are some great benefits of cannabis foods compared to other products in the marketplace?

It explores here what sets the cannabis edibles apart starting from some other consumption methods while offering reasons why you could add them to the medical cannabis toolbox.

Cannabis Edible is Healthier

While lots of people immediately thought of smoking cannabis when it comes with consuming cannabis, it is not the healthiest preference.

Combusting grow matter and breathing in hot smoke and carcinogens has recently been shown to have negative effects on respiratory system health insurance and can be particularly troubling for individuals with asthma. In addition, though smoking cannabis is far healthier than smoking cigarettes, the inflammation of the air paths can still take a toll.

Food items provide a smoke-free substitute for those seeking to prevent the potentially dangerous associated with breathing in weed smoke whereas still enjoying all of the insurance cannabis had to offer.

They are easier to use

Edibles barely leave a track, making them a discreet and easily transported way of enjoying cannabis in comparison to smoking or vaping.

Cigarette smoking involves some tools (at least the lighter for joints), dabbing's blow torches, the complex rigs may be downright overwhelming for the beginner cannabis user. On the other hand, consuming edibles is simple because everybody knows how to eat and drink.

The Effects are definitely more powerful and keep going longer

Once you vape or smoke cannabis, the cannabinoids will quickly enter your lungs and circulates through the bloodstream, initially to the brain, then to the remaining body. Conversely, the THC in edibles gets into through the intestinal tract and is metabolized within the liver before journeying to all of those other bodies.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s

“State of the City” Address, 2019)

(Excerpt) (Draft prepared by James E. Gierach)

Mayor Lightfoot’s “2019 State of the City” Observations and Aims re Violence, Gangs, Guns, Drugs, Immigration, Healthcare, Policing, Racism and Corruption

[CHICAGO_. Marking her FIRST 100 days in office as Chicago’s mayor, just a few days before Labor Day 2019, the following comments are taken from a SUGGESTED DRAFT of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first “STATE OF THE CITY” address.]

‘My fellow Chicagoans —

Though we have made progress in reducing the number of HOMICIDES and SHOOTINGS in Chicago, violent crime remains all too prevalent in too many Chicago neighborhoods, increasingly leeching even onto “the Magnificent Mile,” into our best neighborhoods, and onto Chicago expressways.

VIOLENCE can erupt anywhere in today’s climate.

Though the number of ILLEGAL GUNS recovered by Chicago Police has increased, likely to reach 10,000 illegal guns by year’s end, and despite numerous anti-violence initiatives and strategies put in place over three, Chicago mayoral administrations spanning decades, I am convinced that so long as DRUG PROHIBITION remains “the Law of the Land,” Chicago will continue to be plagued by painful, unrelenting gang and gun violence.

DRUG PROHIBITION PROFITS ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF CHICAGO GANGS. And Chicago gangs are the center core of our gun and violence crises.

Under the new leadership of Gov. JB Pritzker, effective January 1st, Illinois has LEGALIZED RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA, and soon will have largely removed marijuana from drug-dealer shelves, the drug substance most commonly used by Chicagoans, Americans and people around the world.

This great accomplishment was achieved by thoughtful LEGISLATIVE ACT and by stoke of the GOVERNOR’S PEN — not by action of a drug task force, paid-informant, or raiding police SWAT team.

I hasten to add: By delivering this “State of the City Address,” I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THAT PEOPLE USE MARIJUANA.

Individual freedom to choose whether or not to use marijuana, because recreational marijuana use has now been legalized in Illinois for persons 21 years-of-age or older, does not mean individuals should choose to use it.

But I do applaud the removal of marijuana from the REVENUE STREAM of Chicago GANGS and UNLICENSED DRUG DEALERS, who use those revenues to buy weapons of mass destruction — ASSAULT WEAPONS and HANDGUNS. Those weapons in the hands of drug gangsters are used to intimidate witnesses, acquire turf, and lure kids with aspirations to succeed in life by passing through a “GOLDEN PROHIBITION GATEWAY” that purportedly offers easy money and the accumulation of great wealth without need of formal education or hard work.

But MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION IS NOT ANSWER ENOUGH to right today’s wrongs, resulting from society’s return to the sorry Al Capone-chapter of Chicago prohibition history.

I say, DRUG PROHIBITION IS WORSE than a hundred alcohol Prohibitions in terms of unintended and unforeseen bad consequences.

AL CAPONE needed to buy trucks and warehouses to move and store bulky liquor, a big capital outlay limiting entry into the business. In contrast, drug prohibition invites every smart, disadvantaged, or aspiring kid into the powdered, drug-concentrate business without need of startup capital. A plastic baggy containing heroin, fentanyl, cocaine or other powdered drug worth $1,000 on the street won’t even bulge a youngster’s bluejeans pocket.

All that is required to go into Chicago’s, drug-prohibition business is a gun to compete and a pair of gym shoes to get away.

The illicit drug business attracts not only the young and ambitious, but also experienced and disparate parolees. For many thousands of “ex-cons” released back into communities on Chicago’s West and South Sides, and elsewhere, drugs are often the EMPLOYER OF LAST RESORT.

These ill-conceived societal rules have instilled in the minds of many people living on the fringe of society the notion that “It’s them or us,” “Kill or be killed,” “I’m not going back to prison.” This desperate and unforgiving thought must end. But how?

Dr. Gary Slutkin, founder of CEASEFIRE, a violence-interrupter nonprofit organization that has received funding from the City of Chicago, among other governments, was nearly correct 30 years ago when he first suggested that we should treat violence as a disease.

More correctly, he should have said, that DRUG PROHIBITION is a disease that causes unending violence, and many other systemic diseases; and that all are without cure or significant remediation, UNLESS WE RETREAT from counterproductive drug-prohibition policy.

I believe that so long as we have drug users unable to access a legal, labeled and reasonably affordable supply of the substances to which many users are addicted, the myriad horrors of drug prohibition will continue to fowl the Chicago landscape. Those DRUG PROHIBITION horrors, implicitly built into all drug prohibition policies, include the following UNENDING and INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGES:

• ACCIDENTAL DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS, caused by users’ voluntary consumption of unlabeled, untested and unregulated illegal drugs;

• drug warriors and innocent crossfire victims left dead or wounded in unending, Chicago TURF WARS, including street-settled drug business disputes and RETALIATORY SHOOTINGS;

• gang members needfully armed with ever more POWERFUL GUNS to meet rival competitors in a free-for-all fight for CONTROL OF DRUG MARKETS, customers and gang members;

• UNAFFORDABLE, BULLET-HOLE HEALTHCARE;

• the need for MORE POLICE, metal detectors, cameras and MORE TECHNOLOGY in the public way;

• the need for MORE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS, counselors and trauma centers;

The list of drug-prohibition horrors is much longer, and without exhaustion includes:

• RACIALLY-DISPARATE and HEAVY-HANDED POLICING;

• MONEY JUDGMENTS in the hundreds of millions of dollars expended to settle ABUSIVE POLICING LAWSUITS and fund DOJ CONSENT DECREE COMPLIANCE;

• CRIMINAL COURT INJUSTICES;

• FAMILY SEPARATION and BREAKDOWN, caused by MASS INCARCERATION of nonviolent (disproportionately Black and Brown) drug users, and dealers-dealers trying to survive and make a living;

• communities filled with unemployed and often UNEMPLOYABLE WORKERS needlessly saddled with drug-conviction backgrounds;

• and TERRORIZED IMMIGRANTS, DRUG-WAR REFUGEES really, flocking to the U.S.-Mexican border, and eventually to friendly cities like Chicago, to escape the violent consequences of UNITED NATIONS-MANDATED and U.S.-SUPPORTED drug prohibition policies adversely impacting many people from Central America and Latin America.

Of course, DRUG POLICY REFORM ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH.

We must continue and accelerate our “WEED AND SEED” INITIATIVES with enhanced job opportunities, infrastructure improvements, and government and private investment and cooperation—all essential ingredients to address these problems, as long-recognized by all.

But what we have all been much slower to recognize or callout is the UNINTENDED DAMAGE caused by DRUG-PROHIBITION POLICIES enacted and enforced at the LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL LEVELS.

ZERO TOLERANCE OF DRUGS has been the watchword and commonly-supported public policy endorsed by the masses, political and religious leaders, and honorable members of the press for too long — OVER HALF A CENTURY.

This mainstream intolerance, and implicit and explicit endorsement of drug prohibition governmental polices, has preceded successive Chicago, and American, DRUG CRISES with marijuana, LSD, cocaine, crack cocaine, PCP, heroin, ecstasy, methamphetamines, fentanyl and 803 newly invented synthetic mind-altering substances, the latter over just the past decade.

The “SHADOW REPORT” — prepared by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), based in the United Kingdom, a collective of over 100 nonprofit organizations — authoritatively documents GLOBAL DRUG POLICY FAILURES, including DRAMATICALLY INCREASED PRODUCTION OF OPIATES, COCAINE and SYNTHETIC DRUGS over the past decade. I refer all Chicagoans to the 138-page IDPC report available in five languages. https://idpc.net/publications/2018/10/taking-stock-a-decade-of-drug-policy-a-civil-society-shadow-report

Finally, I acknowledge that, alone, Chicago cannot untie the DRUG-PROHIBITION GORDIAN KNOT, cinched so tightly to so many of our Chicago problems for so long.

It will require the cooperation of the CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL, COOK COUNTY BOARD, the ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, the u.S. CONGRESS, the UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS, the INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD, ECOSOC, the UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION and approximately 186 NATIONS OF THE WORLD who have heretofore agreed to support and execute disastrous, UN drug-prohibition CONVENTIONS and POLICIES.

Alone, no one can solve this gargantuan, monolithic, global and Chicago drug prohibition policy conundrum with poisonous tentacles reaching everywhere.

But I intend to dismantle the illicit drug business in Chicago by fighting for EXPERIMENTAL DRUG POLICY REFORM IDEAS, including programs and initiatives embracing drug decriminalization and drug legalization.

And of course, Chicago will also be supporting drug treatment on demand, clean needles, naloxone for all, methadone, suboxone, buprenorphine clinics, mobile drug dispensaries for on-site consumption, safe injection sites, and other HARM-REDUCTION INITIATIVES.

TOGETHER, WE CAN DO THIS. WE CAN AGAIN MAKES DRUG POLICY A MEDICAL PROBLEM, NOT A RAINFALL OF SOCIETAL PROHIBITION CRISES.

We can do it by supporting drug-tolerant ideas aimed to eliminate prohibition drug markets and undercut gang revenues, ideas that simply “TAKE THE PROFIT OUT OF DRUGS.” Because armed gangs will not give up their core, addicted user-base without a fight, I will deploy Chicago police to protect drug users and drug dispensaries at every location and in every legal drug venue.

Now, I’d like to turn to Chicago’s financial problems, including our billion dollar budget shortfall, our budget-busting contractual pension obligations, school contract negotiations and the failed soda tax….’

[Draft prepared for the Honorable Mayor Lori Lightfoot by James E. Gierach, a supporter and admirer of Mayor Lightfoot.]

James E. Gierach

Palos Park, Illinois

Originally drafted, Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Edited, Friday, March 5, 2021

[Mayor Lightfoot’s Thursday address now about 48 hours out.]

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Changes to the Medical Marijuana Program of Illinois

The Alternative to Opioids Act, which allows patients to potentially use cannabis in place of opiates, was signed into law in Illinois in August. To become a patient in this new program, one must apply at a local health department or dispensary and pay a $10 fee. Patients then must be approved before starting the program.

Every 90 days patients will need to check in with a doctor to be able to continue their medical cannabis use. License renewal will also be required just as often. While other, more addictive and life-threatening drugs like opioids only need a new prescription, you will have to renew your license every 90 days for this herb as well as visit a doctor. This is, arguably, an added hassle for those who wish to make the switch from opioids to cannabis.

However, the act does undo the previous requirement for patients and caregivers to send in fingerprints and background checks as part of the application process. This will allow many more people access to pain relief that will not end in an overdose. Dispensaries are looking forward to medicinal marijuana becoming better accepted among physicians after the pilot program of The Alternative to Opioids Act.

“It (the pilot program) is opening the conversation with physicians as well, hopefully as it grows more physicians will be comfortable with this alternative to opioids,” stated manager of member services, Catalina Castillo, from Herbal Care Center in Chicago.

Patients hoping to get a medical marijuana card in Illinois have struggled with a long wait in the past. This will now change for former opioid users in the Alternative Opioids to Act. In place of the usual, plastic medicinal cannabis card, patients will be sent a registration certification in their Email. Patients can simply keep the registration information in their phone or print it out to have in their wallets. They will then be able to buy marijuana right after registering by using this certification at dispensaries while their official application is still processing. The patient will be able to buy medicinal cannabis and wait to be truly accepted or denied.

According to public health researchers, marijuana doesn’t have as many of the same harmful overall effects that opioids have, though both can treat chronic pain. The odds of dying from an opioid overdose are now higher than that of a car crash. States that have legalized medicinal cannabis have seen a 25% decrease in opioid-related overdoses. In a world where the opioid crisis continues to be a real concern for patients who need safe relief for pain, cannabis appears to be more than a fair alternative.

With the passing of the Alternative to Opioids Act, is an increase in medical marijuana business growth in Illinois. One Massachusetts based-company, Ascend Wellness, has already leased property within the state of Illinois to serve the now larger population of medicinal marijuana users. Ascend Wellness is also expected to increase job opportunities in Illinois.

Abner Kurtin, Ascend Wellness founder, said in a statement, “Ascend is excited to bring a wide variety of branded product to enhance the experience of the Illinois consumer.”

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Dhar Mann: Entrepreneur and Mindset Mentor

As an entrepreneur, Dhar Mann has learned many valuable life lessons over the years. From starting a real estate mortgage brokerage at 19, and funding millions of dollars in real estate loans, to being one of the first to tap into the medical marijuana industry early on and building a cosmetics business that does 8-figures in annual revenue, Dhar Mann has a proven ability to grow start-ups into massively successful businesses. However, as with any success story, there have been failures along the way. Bad decisions and legal trouble could have ended Dhar Mann’s entrepreneurial journey. It’s his resiliency and ability to reinvent himself, learning from his own mistakes, that makes him a great entrepreneur – one willing to share the good, the bad and the ugly in order to help other entrepreneurs avoid the same missteps.

Dhar Mann: Entrepreneur at Heart

Dhar Mann has taken an unconventional path to success. The young CEO has experienced many highs and lows, from living in a Hollywood Hills mansion with 9 exotic cars, to losing everything and living on a friend’s couch, to bouncing back and owning an 8-figure business which he runs today. He’s a resilient go-getter who just refuses to stop pushing forward.

Dhar Mann’s business experience extends across many industries including real estate, transportation, medical marijuana, franchising, and cosmetics. Some of the businesses he has owned have been successes, but many of have failed. He attributes much of his success today from the learnings he’s obtained from the businesses that failed. Dhar Mann’s companies may seem like an odd mix, but for the diehard entrepreneur, it was all part of his pathway to success.

The Beginning of an Entrepreneur

LiveGlam Owner, Dhar Mann has a lot of experience with starting and running companies.

He launched his first business, a real estate mortgage brokerage, at the age of 19 while studying at University of California, Davis. Before he could legally drink he had 3 offices, 25+ employees and was funding millions of dollars in real estate loans. At 21-years old, Dhar Mann was the only student in his small college town driving a Lamborghini to and from class and making more than his college professors. As the company grew, Dhar Mann dropped out from college to focus solely on the business, but after much pressure from his family, he eventually went back and earned his degree in Economics and Political Science.

Soon after he graduated the real estate mortgage crisis hit. Dhar Mann was on the verge of losing it all – including his exotic cars. He decided to create an exotic car rental company and rent out his own vehicles; turning his depreciating gas-guzzlers into income producers. That type of fast thinking would lead him to much success, but also to many problems.

(You can learn how to make money from exotic car brands in this short video he created: How I Earned a Free Ferrari and Why I Turned it Down)

Dhar Mann Real Estate Ventures

Alongside his transportation business, the young and ambitious entrepreneur started buying and rehabbing real estate in Oakland. He built up a sizable real estate portfolio in his early 20’s. While rehabbing property he found out about a government grant program that would reimburse 50% of the money he spent on construction.

Excited, he started many construction projects at once. What he didn’t realize is that it would take nearly a year for the City’s reimbursement checks to come in – well after the project money had all been spent.

In a cash crunch, he started taking some shortcuts on his grant paperwork to speed up the reimbursement process. He thought if he could get reimbursed faster it would allow him to take on even more construction projects and expand his real estate portfolio.

That decision would soon become one of his biggest life mistakes. But he wouldn’t realize it until after he made International headlines in the medical marijuana industry.

Dhar Mann Medical Marijuana Businesses

One day in 2009 while working at his real estate office, one of Dhar Mann’s commercial tenants came in to report a break-in in the tenant’s unit. The tenant was reportedly running a catering business and had been robbed. When Dhar picked up the phone to call the police, the tenant asked him not to report it, admitting the “catering company” was just a cover-up for a medical marijuana grow operation.

That was Dhar Mann’s first introduction to California’s medical marijuana laws. After doing some research, Dhar found that not only was growing medical marijuana legal in Oakland, but it was a very lucrative business. At that time an Oakland-based medical marijuana dispensary had just reported 17 million dollars in annual sales.

Dhar’s first idea was to open his own medical marijuana dispensary. The only way to do that was to get a license issued by the City, but to become licensed, an applicant had to demonstrate extensive experience with growing or selling medical marijuana. So, he knew he had to earn that experience first.

In 2010 he opened what CNN dubbed “the Walmart of Weed”- a 15,000 square foot space that was a “one stop shop for growing pot.” At no time did Dhar Mann actually sell any medical marijuana, but Dhar sold all the supplies necessary to grow it. There was even an on-site doctor to issue medical marijuana patient cards and a classroom that offered classes on how to grow medical marijuana.

The business grand opening created a buzz around the world. Dhar Mann was featured in countless media publications including CNN, Time Magazine, Huffington Post and even landed on the front cover of Mother Jones Magazine and was the focus of a National Geographic Documentary. Dhar quickly grew the concept, becoming one of the first individuals in the world to franchise a medical marijuana business, and opened locations in Arizona, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Illinois and more.

Around this time he also found out that the City of Oakland was getting ready to issue new medical marijuana dispensary permits. Now, having the experience, street credit and team behind him, he successfully achieved his initial goal of applying for obtaining a medical marijuana dispensary permit. It was an exciting time, but what he didn’t realize is his high was about to come crashing down.

New Beginnings: LiveGlam Owner

Succeeding as an entrepreneur is difficult in any situation, but succeeding as an entrepreneur with a criminal background, no money in the bank and a tarnished reputation is much more difficult.

Knowing he would never get a job or work for anyone, Dhar Mann began exploring many different business ideas from his tiny 300-square foot studio apartment he was sharing with a friend. One fortunate day in 2015, he ended up having lunch with a popular makeup artist and learned about the incredible opportunities within the beauty industry largely driven by the rise of social media.

That lunch would soon turn into his most successful business venture to date. He partnered with the makeup artist to provide online makeup classes. With less than $1,000 starting capital he purchased a webcam, 2 softbox lights and built a scrappy website. Since all the classes were live streamed and on glamming, he decided to call the company LiveGlam.

Today LiveGlam manufacturers its own cosmetics, has partnered with some of the most influential people in makeup, has almost two million social media followers and generates 8-figures in annual revenue. In just two years, the company has grown to 50+ team members and shipped 10MM+ in beauty products. Being an innovator in the beauty industry, LiveGlam is credited as being the worlds first makeup brush subscription box, in addition to offering successful eye shadow and lipstick subscription box services.

Entrepreneur Dhar Mann as a Motivational Speaker

What’s most inspiring is how Dhar Mann learned important lessons from his prior mistakes and transformed failure into fortune. Knowing what it feels like to experience the many highs and lows of business and in life, Dhar now uses his learnings to create short motivational videos that have received tens of millions of views and inspired people all around the world.

As the CEO of LiveGlam, he continues to oversee daily operations, however now he is also focused on sharing with others what he’s learned about failure and success. He believes cultivating a mindset of perseverance is important – because every successful entrepreneur has failed many times, if not at least once.

As a Mindset Mentor, he shares his experiences and tips for turning roadblocks into building blocks.

Dhar Mann’s messages have inspired others to face challenges head-on and embrace the growth that comes with overcoming hard times. He sees that growth as a way for us to improve our lives our and the lives of those we love.

His life and relationship tips have been shared millions of times on social media.

Dhar tackles issues that many of us can relate to, like feeling taken for granted in a relationship, or always comparing ourselves to others or feeling insecure.

How Dhar Mann Balances Work/Life as an Entrepreneur

As an entrepreneur, Dhar Mann is a self-starter who maintains a regular schedule. His daily routine includes exercise and healthy food to keep both his body and his mind in shape.

He makes sure to schedule plenty of time off to travel with his girlfriend Laura because building and maintaining a strong and happy personal life outside of work is one of his top priorities.

While the demands of operating a successful business can be taxing, Dhar Mann intentionally directs his attention to the most meaningful areas of his life where he feels the greatest good can be achieved.

As an entrepreneur, Dhar Mann’s unconventional path to success has been bumpy at times but through consistent effort, and a drive to never give up, he has already achieved many of his goals.

He encourages people to free themselves from limiting beliefs and build the life that truly inspires them. You can keep up with his story at dharmann.com or join his active group of fans on Facebook. You can also follow Dhar Mann on YouTube where he publishes new content regularly.

This article originally appeared here: https://www.dharmann.com/dhar-mann-entrepreneur-and-mindset-mentor/

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