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NORML – Nevada: Cannabis Revenues Funding Efforts to Seal the Records of Those with Cannabis Convictions

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The grant funding was made available through the collection of marijuana-related sales tax revenues. A 2019 state law permits those convicted of marijuana-specific activities which have since been decriminalized or legalized to submit a written request to the court to have those records sealed. million) have awarded $1.2

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Denver Launches the Nation’s First Psychedelic Harm Reduction Training for First Responders

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With decriminalization efforts underway in many other cities and states, this new training, the first of its kind in the US, could set the stage for the design and deployment of programs like it across the country.

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The Week in Weed: May 7, 2021

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The Texas legislature moves on cannabis decriminalization. Also this week, another bipartisan, bicameral group introduced the Marijuana Data Collection Act. This is not the first time the Court has refused to hear a 280E case; they did the same thing in 2019. One would decriminalize marijuana possession. supreme court.

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Colorado Could Legalize Psychedelics This November

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The city of Denver, Colorado, decriminalized the possession and use of psilocybin in 2019—the first U.S. Activists collected over 100,000 more signatures than needed to qualify the measure for the ballot, showing significant support for its passing. city to do so. Colorado could legalize psychedelics.

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People v. Charles Hill, 2020 IL 124595.”Smelling and seeing cannabis justified probable cause for a police officer in central Illinois to search a man’s car, despite cannabis’ decriminalization”

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The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Reports: SPRINGFIELD — Smelling and seeing cannabis justified probable cause for a police officer in central Illinois to search a man’s car, despite cannabis’ decriminalization and legalization for medical purposes at the time, a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court majority ruled Thursday.

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One Marijuana Arrest Occurs Every 58 Seconds

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In 2019, that trend finally appeared to shift as the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report tallied 545,601 marijuana arrests compared to 663,367 in 2018 and 659,700 in 2017. The cannabis total from 2019 represents 35% of all drug related arrests. Need Advice About Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program? Sentencing Commission.

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Nevada: Pushing Reform Efforts Forward

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For starters, cannabis would be decriminalized on the federal level and therefore removed from the entirety of the Controlled Substances Act. Last Saturday at NuLeaf, Las Vegas NORML collected dozens of signatures from consumers who support such a comprehensively reformative bill. ” Learn more at www.lvnorml.org.