NORML

AUGUST 13, 2019

When NORML was founded in 1970, roughly 12% of Americans supported legalizing marijuana. Currently sixty-five percent of adults nationwide support ending marijuana prohibition and establishing a regulated market where responsible consumers can legally purchase marijuana. Marijuana policy should be evidence based.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

There has been a recent flurry of movement – both in the courts and in state legislatures – on the marijuana law front across several states. As we have also reported , on March 31, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill legalizing recreational cannabis in the state of New York, effective immediately.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 5, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Louisiana’s decriminalization law went into effect this week. Several states seek to join the list of adult-legal jurisdictions via 2022 ballot initiatives. Idaho supporters can start collecting signatures.

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NORML

AUGUST 19, 2019

The MORE Act, which was introduced to the US Congress last month, would completely decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. Currently, public support for legalizing weed nationwide is at an all-time high: 62 percent of Americans favor legalizing the adult use of marijuana, while over 90 percent want access to medical cannabis.

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Veriheal

MARCH 9, 2023

states — Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania — stand a good chance at legalizing recreational cannabis this year. Marijuana laws are rapidly evolving across all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have enacted legal medical marijuana programs. As of February 2023, 41 U.S.

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The Blunt Truth

MARCH 1, 2024

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Arkansas’ Attorney General gives the go-ahead for advocates to start collecting signatures for a ballot initiative. It’s legal!!!! And Philadelphia (where the series is set) has decriminalized.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The parliament in Malta voted recently to make adult-use cannabis legal in the country, making the island nation the first in Europe to legalize marijuana. Proponents hope the decision by Malta to legalize marijuana ends criminalization of people for smoking marijuana and reduces criminal trafficking.

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Veriheal

JUNE 17, 2021

Cannabis legalization is what you are attempting to keep the citizens of Idaho safe from? On one side of the spectrum, politicians in Idaho tried to initiate a constitutional ban of legal cannabis in the state of Idaho. It will cost millions of dollars by the time it’s all said and done to ever see cannabis legalized in Idaho.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Several states held votes for determining the legal marijuana industry’s future in one form or the other. And, these involved making marijuana consumption for recreational purposes. Mississippi also voted for allowing medical marijuana. What’s surprising is that legalizing weed has some economic benefits.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 30, 2021

Kind Idaho Chair Jackee Winters is laser-focused on qualifying the group’s medical cannabis legalization initiative for the state’s 2022 ballot in order to help her daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, get legal access to cannabis. It’s time for Idaho to grow up,” she told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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LifeCannMD

DECEMBER 3, 2020

that have legalized recreational marijuana. In November 2016, Florida passed legislation allowing for the use of Medical Marijuana. Patients who are able to qualify for a medical card, must have an underlying condition that marijuana can be used to treat. President-elect Joe Biden also says he supports decriminalization.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 18, 2021

Californians are ready for legal psilocybin mushrooms — and it sounds like they’re not going to wait around for legislators to allow them to have it. While legalizing mushrooms may sound like a pipedream, politicians are actually on board with softening the laws around psychedelics prohibition.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Oregon marijuana industry is hurting , much like industry in California and other states. Among the many reasons (overproduction, market saturation) is that federal marijuana laws have not been reformed at all. In this first of a two-part series, I’ll discuss why federal marijuana laws may not change any time soon.

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CannaMD

DECEMBER 8, 2020

You might think that cannabis legalization would lead to a significant decrease in marijuana-related arrests, but that hasn’t been the case. Not only did marijuana arrests initially increase as states legalized the plant, but there are still more people arrested for marijuana possession than for all violent crimes combined.

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With the 2020 ballot fast approaching, California activists are keenly working towards securing a measure that would decriminalize psilocybin, also commonly known as ‘magic mushrooms.’. Representatives for Decriminalize California have stated the group currently aims to raise $1.5 Legal Implications. The Proposed Measure.

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The Cannigma

JANUARY 12, 2022

Medical: legal Recreational: illegal, although small amounts are decriminalized. Cannabis is legal in the US Virgin Islands for medical use for both residents and visitors, and can be accessed at a number of dispensaries on the three main islands of St Thomas, St John and St Croix. Virgin Islands medical marijuana laws.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Yet another industry comes out in favor of marijuana banking. Germany may legalize cannabis. Uber Eats in Canada is now offering marijuana. cannabis banking. The fly in the ointment?

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 27, 2020

A few months later we covered the Oregon Attorney General’s approval of Initiative Petition 2020-12—a petition similar to IP 34—and noted the challenges facing the petitioners in collecting signatures and convincing 51% of Oregonians to vote “Yes.” At that time, we guessed that the signature hurdle would sink the initiative.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

The attorney general and cannabis regulators don’t think that Massachusetts needs new criminal penalties for violations of the state’s marijuana laws, but the offices recommended three ways the Legislature could clarify the law and crack down on the illicit market. Advertisement.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

I’ve been practicing corporate, transactional, and regulatory law in the marijuana industry for going on 10 years now. I’ve never understood exactly why folks get excited about, or even remotely interested, when various lifetime politicians in Congress push bills on the federal legalization/rescheduling of marijuana.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 28, 2022

Colorado could decriminalize the personal use and possession of certain psychedelic plants and fungi, including “magic mushrooms,” and create a Natural Medicine Access Program, according to a voter initiative on the November ballot. Oregon, two years ago, became the first state to legalize psilocybin with the approval of Measure 109.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 10, 2021

Senate Bill 767, which would legalize and regulate recreational cannabis, passed the Senate at a 20 to 5 margin. Hawaii is already somewhat decriminalized, as 2019 laws reduced the criminal penalties for cannabis possession, but only up to three grams. The other bill being considered, Senate Bill 785 , passed 24 to 1.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 5, 2021

Idaho cannabis advocates are working to place medical and decriminalization measures on the 2022 ballot in what Russ Belville, spokesperson for the Idaho Citizens Coalition for Cannabis , calls “the most hostile state” toward policy reform. The Most Anti-Marijuana Legislature in America’. Idaho is the only U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Louis Board of Aldermen approved Board Bill 132 with 23 votes , essentially nullifying existing laws that criminalize small amounts of marijuana. Louis for marijuana-related charges. “19 states now have already legalized adult marijuana use,” Viets said. Taxation and legalization are better for everyone.”

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 6, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Attorney General Garland reiterates his disinterest in prosecuting marijuana users abiding by state law. The Texas legislature moves on cannabis decriminalization. One would decriminalize marijuana possession.

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The Blunt Truth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While the votes continue to be tallied in the Presidential election, one thing is certain – it was a BIG night for cannabis in America with five new states approving ballot measures to allow for legalized marijuana. In New Jersey , by a nearly 2-1 margin, voters passed Public Question No. See Section 36-2851(1). See Section 36-2851(2).

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SpeedWeed

MAY 22, 2021

Advocates for Indigenous people recently wrote a letter to drug reform advocates and media saying that peyote should not be included in the current wave of psychedelic decriminalization efforts, as reported by Marijuana Moment (where you can check out the statement in full.) . Not all decriminalization efforts have ignored the issue.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

High hopes characterized January , when it looked as if both New York and New Mexic o would legalize adult-use cannabis this year. In February , marijuana was a topic of conversation at the Democratic Presidential debates. Ideas ranged from legalization on day one (Sanders) to decriminalization and expungement (Bloomberg).

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The Joint Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Activists seeking to legalize marijuana for all adults in Oklahoma have officially filed an initiative to do just that. An overwhelming majority of Oklahomans from across the political spectrum support reforming the marijuana laws in Oklahoma,” Kiesel said in a press release. “The

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 17, 2022

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. Source: [link].

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 30, 2021

Kind Idaho Chair Jackee Winters is laser-focused on qualifying the group’s medical cannabis legalization initiative for the state’s 2022 ballot in order to help her daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, get legal access to cannabis. It’s time for Idaho to grow up,” she told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 26, 2021

Kind Idaho Chair Jackee Winters is laser-focused on qualifying the group’s medical cannabis legalization initiative for the state’s 2022 ballot in order to help her daughter, who suffers from a brain tumor, get legal access to cannabis. It’s time for Idaho to grow up,” she told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary.

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Veriheal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

states that have legalized cannabis in some form, but advocates have continued to work hard on cannabis legalization and decriminalization proposals. . A bill to legalize and regulate adult-use cannabis in Wyoming managed to fly through a House committee in March of last year. Wyoming may not have joined the 37 U.S.

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The Blunt Truth

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. The big news this week is that Alabama is considering a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Meanwhile, in Virginia, both chambers of the state legislature passed decriminalization bills.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Malta is legalizing adult-use cannabis. South Dakota voters are unhappy with the governor’s actions on marijuana. Lawmakers in Rhode Island work on legalization. Cannabis is coming to Malta. south dakota.

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WeedAdvisor

AUGUST 9, 2019

Although marijuana reform made it across the Atlantic in recent months, one Luxembourg plans to ride the green wave all the way through, according to The Guardian. Luxembourg’s prohibition laws differ from its counterparts in the western hemisphere, as will the rules following legalization. Expected Timeframe. . Seeking Support. .

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The Blunt Truth

MARCH 12, 2020

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. In other federal action, the House Veterans Affairs Committee passed two bills related to medical marijuana. One allows doctors at VA hospitals to prescribe medical cannabis in states where it is legal.

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