by InfluencER | Mar 4, 2022 | Politics and Law
Maryland senators began formal consideration of two bills to legalize marijuana on Thursday, including one that would put the reform on November’s ballot as a referendum. The Senate Finance Committee hearing comes less than a week after the state’s House of Delegates...
by InfluencER | Mar 4, 2022 | Politics and Law
The South Dakota House on Thursday rejected a bill to legalize marijuana that had been temporarily revived after a committee defeat earlier this week. Now, activists are moving ahead with an effort to put legalization before voters again this November....
by InfluencER | Mar 4, 2022 | Politics and Law
As advocates push for congressional action on Democratic-led marijuana legalization bills in the House and Senate, a Republican congresswoman who’s championing an alternative reform measure says she has received assurances that there will be a hearing on her proposal...
by InfluencER | Mar 4, 2022 | Politics and Law
The fundamental problem with the marijuana legalization efforts moving forward state by state in the United States today is that the federal government has not ended the federal prohibition on marijuana. This situation has been recently criticized by U.S. Supreme...
by InfluencER | Mar 4, 2022 | Politics and Law
A proposal to revive Georgia’s stalled medical marijuana program cleared its first committee on a unanimous vote Tuesday. The legislation would attempt to break bureaucratic delays by issuing medical marijuana licenses to 22 companies, which would then be...
by InfluencER | Mar 4, 2022 | Politics and Law
A group of more than 20 criminal justice, civil rights, drug policy, labor, and advocacy organizations are urging Congress to vote on marijuana reform legislation. The groups, which included the American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union, National...
