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Evidence-Based Government Gets a Boost During COVID As strains on public resources grow, a new center at the National Conference of State Legislatures shares lessons from evidence-based policymaking to help states make the most of programs and budgets. Carl Smith, Senior Staff Writer | February 16, 2021 | Features
Before COVID, governors had hoped to increase general fund appropriations by more than $33 billion in fiscal year 2021. Instead, they will be making cuts of more than $6 billion across program areas at a time when citizens are depending on them to lead the way back to health and economic stability.
There’s no room for waste in public-sector investments of dollars and human capital. A Center for Results-Driven Governing has been established at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to increase confidence in outcomes by curating and sharing lessons learned from decades of evidence-based
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Marijuana users don t want anything to do with the high currently being enjoyed by wholesale weed producers in Colorado. According to the state Department of Revenue, the current price per pound of marijuana flower hasn t been this high since 2016.
About once every three months, the DOR releases an average market rate (AMR) for wholesale marijuana flower, trim and plant matter allocated for extraction and just about all of those figures are going up. According to the DOR, the average price per pound of marijuana flower is currently hovering around $1,721, compared to a $1,316 AMR in October and $1,000 in July.
Marijuana trim prices are jumping, too, increasing 12.5 percent on average from July to December to $400 per pound, according to the DOR, while trim allocated for extraction the process of making concentrates and infused products increased 30 percent, to $250, during the same period. Marijuana flower allocated for extraction stayed flat, at $502.