NORML

MAY 9, 2019

Send a message to your elected officials in support of this legislation now. ” “Legislative relief must come sooner rather than later. ” “Legislative relief must come sooner rather than later. ” “This bill is part of the continued shift of Democratic Party leadership. Schumer (D-NY).

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NORML

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, House Bill 550, to expand the state’s marijuana decriminalization law.

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NORML

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jim Justice (R) of West Virginia signed legislation into law that allows financial institutions to provide banking services related to the state’s medical marijuana program. It now awaits consideration by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

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NORML

JANUARY 25, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Missouri state regulators began issuing the first of nearly 200 licenses to medical cannabis providers.

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NORML

MARCH 14, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, HCR 2045, that seeks to arbitrarily cap the potency of cannabis flowers at two percent THC.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Several mayors across the state of New Jersey are calling for automatic expungement provisions to be included in the state’s marijuana regulation bill, and are threatening to ban retail sales in their jurisdictions if state lawmakers pass legislation without it.

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NORML

MAY 3, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jay Inslee (D) of Washington signed legislation into law allowing medical cannabis to be accessed by patients on school grounds, and separate legislation allowing the production of industrial hemp in accordance with new federal hemp regulations.

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NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Mark Gordon (R) of Wyoming signed industrial hemp production legislation into law. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. AL resident?

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 6, 2021

Marijuana Moment Reports A bill to decriminalize psychedelics in California and create a working group to study broader reform advanced… Read More.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! At the state level, the North Dakota House of Representatives defeated a decriminalization bill on the House floor by a narrow 43-47 vote. Click here to email your Representative and urge them to support this important legislation. AZ resident?

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Psilocybin has been in the news with increasing frequency as research into psychedelic therapy has proliferated, and a number of local jurisdictions, including the cities of Oakland, Denver , and Santa Cruz have decriminalized psilocybin to varying degrees. Denver and Oakland have decriminalized Magic Mushrooms.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! ” At a more local level, the decriminalization policy in Dayton, Ohio went into effect this week. Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, House Bill 2359, to reduce barriers to employment for those harmed by the War on Drugs.

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Ron DeSantis (R) of Florida signed legislation into law to restore patients’ right to smoke medical cannabis. And Steelton Borough, Pennsylvania passed an ordinance to decriminalize up to 30 grams of cannabis possession. California.

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NORML

JANUARY 10, 2020

Welcome to the first Weekly Legislative Roundup of 2020! At the local level, Norristown, PA city council approved an ordinance to decriminalize up to 30 grams of marijuana. Legislation has been pre-filed for 2020, House Bill 25 / Senate Bill 242, to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. FL resident?

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NORML

JANUARY 4, 2019

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Weekly Legislative Roundup of 2019! And at a more local level, Dayton, Ohio is considering a proposal to completely decriminalize marijuana and remove the $150 possession fine. Jake Wheatley (D), plan to file marijuana legalization bills in their respective chambers this legislative session.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, Senate Bill 170, to expand access to medical cannabis in Delaware. DE resident?

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Veriheal

JULY 25, 2020

Cannabis decriminalization recently took place in Virginia. The new law is a form of decriminalization and removing criminal penalties for low-level cannabis possession. Just one day after the new cannabis decriminalization law went into effect in Virginia, lawmakers announced they were already looking at full cannabis legalization.

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NORML

APRIL 1, 2019

Both the legislature and the Governor’s office, after hearing New Yorkers’ opinions, have repeatedly stated cannabis legislation must address social justice concerns and avoid creating a cannabis economy that will allow large businesses to thrive to the detriment of small business.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 7, 2020

Legislative initiatives include decriminalization of marijuana, parole reform, raising the felony larceny threshold, raising the age of juvenile transfer to adult court, and the permanent elimination of driver’s license suspensions for unpaid fines, fees, and court costs. Here’s the press release in full.

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NORML

AUGUST 26, 2019

Pedini’s legislative strategy relied on two approaches: (1) carefully crafting the language around Virginia’s medical marijuana laws to protect patients, and (2) letting doctors, not bureaucrats, determine who gets to access medical marijuana. It removed qualifying conditions altogether. I can’t read this.”

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

State legislators in 2021 enacted over 50 laws liberalizing marijuana policies in more than 25 states, according to a report issued today by the National Organization of the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML). This marks a change from past years, when similar laws were primarily enacted via citizens’ initiatives, not by legislative action.

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NORML

JANUARY 31, 2020

Proponents of cannabis reform in Kentucky had an opportunity to have their voices heard at the legislative level on January 22nd and 23rd. Jason Nemes, R-Louisville, or as the emerging trend is becoming with Kentucky’s legislators, thanking them for their support. They are there to represent their constituents, after all.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 13, 2021

The California legislation that would decriminalize some psychedelic substances under state law, Senate Bill 519, was approved in a 5-3 vote by the State Assembly’s Public Safety Committee in a June 29th hearing. Decriminalizing psychedelics is one important step in that direction. They write.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

Among the many changes that this new legislation brought were amendments to and expansion of New York’s lawful off-duty conduct law to protect cannabis use by employees when they are not on the job. Remedies for prevailing plaintiffs include reinstatement, back wages, attorneys’ fees and costs.

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NORML

MAY 20, 2019

Partially as a legislative apology for the frivolous and unnecessary wrongs of the War on Drugs and partially to boost possible employment opportunities to past “offenders”, Assembly Bill 192 would create a program for anyone with permanent criminal charges to apply for the records of those crimes to be sealed.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 17, 2021

California is getting closer to becoming the next state to pass legislation that would loosen the prohibitionist stronghold against psychedelics. State senators on the Golden State’s public safety committee voted to advance a bill that would decriminalize the possession of many mind-expanding substances by 4 to 1 on Tuesday. .

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CannaMD

JUNE 2, 2020

To help move things along, many state and local governments are now enacting legislation disallowing pre-employment marijuana testing for certain types of employees. Exceptions were again made for safety-sensitive positions. Medical Marijuana: Employee Rights & Safety. CITIES WITH NEW MARIJUANA TESTING POLICIES.

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Veriheal

JUNE 1, 2023

The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D), and he explained that it is not a decriminalization effort; rather, it is simply legalization. It had passed through the Senate and the Public Safety and Health committees, but the Assembly Appropriations Committee gutted its main provisions.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 26, 2022

Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism, will lead a hearing entitled “Decriminalizing Cannabis at the Federal Level: Necessary Steps to Address Past Harms” on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 2:30 P.M.

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The Blunt Truth

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It was a busy week for the states, as Virginia moved towards decriminalization. The state House and Senate passed versions of a bill to decriminalize, which the governor is expected to sign. The next stop for the legislation is the full House, and then it’s on to the state Senate, which may be less hospitable territory.

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Veriheal

APRIL 17, 2025

Groups like SAM claim to work in the interest of public health and safety first and foremost, perhaps to distance themselves from the prejudicial roots of anti-legalization in the past. Youngkin vetoed it based on addiction prevention and public health safety. The organizations current motto is Preventing the Next Big Tobacco.”

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 19, 2022

He stated that he supports decriminalizing, which he says H.B. 371 would do, but says he still has concerns about public safety and the effect on young people. In what can come as no surprise to those watching events in the Palmetto State, medical marijuana failed to pass in the current legislative session. south carolina.

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The Blunt Truth

MARCH 8, 2021

Separate laws decriminalize marijuana and hashish possession and set out the penalties when individuals under age 21 use or possess marijuana or hashish. Decriminalization. Safety Implications for Employers. New Jersey recently enacted a law permitting personal, nonmedical use of marijuana for individuals age 21 and over.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Portland, OR — Today the Oregon Liquor Control Commission provided the Oregon Legislative Assembly with the 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report required by ORS 475B.548. 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report. A Letter from OLCC Director Steve Marks.

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Veriheal

AUGUST 24, 2022

The city of Denver, Colorado, decriminalized the possession and use of psilocybin in 2019—the first U.S. According to The Denver Post , Melanie Rose Rodgers—a prominent activist who helped get psilocybin decriminalized in Denver in 2019—has cited concerns about a corporate takeover of natural medicine following the enactment of Initiative 58.

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The Joint Blog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine’s has signed into law legislation that decriminalizes hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana. Rules and regulations are still being developed by the ODA which will be responsible for testing CBD and other hemp products for safety and accuracy.

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